How did this NC woman get $500,000? She made a lunch run for chicken nuggets
A North Carolina woman’s decision to get chicken nuggets for lunch made her $500,000 richer.
Barbara Hanks-Davis, a post office worker from Henderson, stopped to get chicken nuggets from the Han-Dee Hugo on Leesville Road in Raleigh on her lunch break, according to the North Carolina Education Lottery.
While there, she bought a $5 BIG SPIN scratch-off ticket and took it back to her car to scratch it, the lottery says.
Her ticket had the SPIN symbol so she went on the lottery’s website and spun the digital wheel, according to lottery officials.
Hanks-Davis told lottery officials she thought she might’ve “hit the wrong button” when the wheel landed on BIG SPIN.
“I called my son and had him check it and he said, ‘Yes mom. You did win.’ I started jumping and screaming on the phone,” she told lottery officials. “I was screaming and hollering, I was so excited. I had to calm myself down so I didn’t have a heart attack.”
But her luck didn’t stop there.
At the live BIG SPIN event in Raleigh on Monday, Hanks-Davis ended up winning $500,000, the lottery says. She is the first to win the BIG SPIN game’s top prize.
“Woooh! Thank you, lord,” Hanks-Davis said, according to lottery officials. “I just can’t believe it. I just can’t believe it. Holy moly!”
After taxes, Hanks-Davis took home $353,722, according to the lottery, and she knows how she’s going to spend it.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a situation to do something for myself,” she told lottery officials. “Then I’m going to make sure my family is taken care of. I’m also close to retirement, so hopefully this means I can retire a few years early.”
The game started in October, and four people still have the chance to spin the BIG SPIN, according to the lottery.
