Truck driver ‘can enjoy life a bit more’ after hitting the jackpot in North Carolina
A North Carolina truck driver spent $2 on a lottery ticket — and discovered it was worth much more.
Leroy Blango is now planning to go on a family trip after he scored a $109,383 prize, according to the N.C. Education Lottery.
“I’m a low maintenance guy,” Blango said in a March 29 news release. “It doesn’t take a lot to make me happy. Now I can enjoy life a bit more.”
Blango basked in the big win after he went to a store in Greenville, roughly 85 miles southeast of Raleigh. At the Handy Mart on South Charles Boulevard, officials said he played the Bingo Bucks game.
It turns out, his ticket beat 1-in-240,000 odds to win the game’s Fast Play rolling jackpot on March 26.
Blango, a Pitt County resident, claimed his prize and kept $77,673 after taxes.
It’s not the first time someone who works in trucking has scored extra cash in the North Carolina lottery.
In October, officials said a truck driver had trouble believing he won a big prize until the check was in his hand.
And in 2020, another trucker had a “lucky feeling” before buying a ticket worth $25,000 a year, McClatchy News reported.
This story was originally published March 30, 2022 at 7:13 AM with the headline "Truck driver ‘can enjoy life a bit more’ after hitting the jackpot in North Carolina."
