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Nov. 12 (UPI) — A North Carolina man said he forgot about the scratch-off lottery tickets he bought before a trip to Colorado and ended up flying home with a $1 million winner in his pocket.<\/p>\n
Yaheem Jones, of Creswell, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he bought some scratch-offs from Marks Supermarket in Creswell just before departing on a trip to Denver.<\/p>\n
“I bought the tickets before I left for Denver and just threw them in my book bag,” Jones said. “I flew all the way to Denver with them and everything and I didn’t even know I was a winner until a couple of days later.”<\/p>\n
Jones said he was cleaning out his bag before flying home when he rediscovered the forgotten tickets.<\/p>\n
“I had the flight pass, my itinerary, my checked bag passes and I see the tickets,” he recalled.<\/p>\n
Jones scratched the tickets off and discovered one of them, a $10 Red Hot Riches ticket, was a $1 million top prize winner.<\/p>\n
The winner said he ended up flying home to North Carolina with the winning ticket in his pocket.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t take my hand out of my pocket,” he said. “Not one whole time!”<\/p>\n
Jones said the prize money will “help a lot” and the majority will go into savings.<\/p>\n
Africa Press-Nigeria Nov. 12 (UPI) — A North Carolina man said he forgot about the scratch-off lottery tickets he bought before a trip to Colorado and ended up flying home with a $1 million winner in his pocket. Yaheem Jones, of Creswell, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he bought some scratch-offs from Marks Supermarket […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":32425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[537],"class_list":["post-32423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-miscellaneous"],"yoast_head":"\n