A Carpenter of 56 Years Is Retiring After He Found $20 on Ground and Turned It Into a $1 Million Lottery Win

Jerry Hicks has worked as a master carpenter for more than half a century. Now, he’s retiring after finding a $20 bill on the ground outside a gas station — and turning it into a $1 million lottery win.

“I found $20 in the parking lot outside the Speedway,” Hicks told the North Carolina lottery. “I used that to buy the ticket.”

Hicks, a Banner Elk resident, bought the Extreme Cash scratch-off ticket at Speedway on N.C. 105 in Boone last week.

“They actually didn’t have the ticket I was looking for so I bought that one instead,” he said.

Related: Mega Millions Tickets Will Soon Cost More Than Double the Current Price,

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