Husband’s huge lottery win makes wife skeptical. ‘She thought I was pulling her leg’
A North Carolina man won a huge lottery prize — but his wife was skeptical.
“She thought I was pulling her leg,” Roger Lundy told the N.C. Education Lottery. “We are both thrilled.”
Lundy, who lives in the Raleigh suburb of Fuquay-Varina, won big in the Season-End Extravaganza second-chance drawing. The drawing allowed lottery players to try their luck at winning one of three $100,000 prizes.
Lundy hit the jackpot, beating out more than 4.2 million entries. He kept $71,500 after taxes, lottery officials wrote Jan. 5 in a news release.
Now, Lundy plans to buy something he’s waited to have for years.
“We really need a new car,” he told lottery officials. “We might get a Hyundai Palisade.”
It’s not the first time a North Carolina lottery win was interpreted as a joke. Another woman thought her husband was kidding around until she heard him getting emotional about his ticket, McClatchy News reported in November.
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This story was originally published January 5, 2024 at 1:55 PM with the headline "Husband’s huge lottery win makes wife skeptical. ‘She thought I was pulling her leg’."
