Woman lottery winner tapes $100,000 ticket to her leg for safekeeping
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The woman bought three winning scratch-off tickets from this Lake Toxaway Trading Post on Rosman Highway, North Carolina.
A worried 60-year-old winner came up with a creative way for safeguarding her North Carolina lottery ticket.
Pamela Lunsford taped the winning $20 Winter Winnings ticket to her leg after winning a $100,000 prize, according to the NC Education Lottery.
“I can lose a purse or a book bag but I can’t lose my leg,” Lunsford said in a news release.
Another lucky North Carolina player, Phil Morgan, has won over 300 lottery prizes.
“I was really excited that I won $130,” Lunsford said. “When I realized what I won on the last ticket, I started shaking. I was in total shock.”
She collected $70,756 after taxes on Dec. 28.
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“Something like this, it’s life-changing for me,” Lunsford told lottery officials.
Lunsford celebrated her big jackpot win by taking her kids to a crab dinner in Asheville, according to the lottery service.
She also plans on buying a new car after her old one was totaled in an accident a few months ago.
The Winter Winnings game started in November “with two top prizes of $1 million and two $100,000 prizes,” lottery officials said.
