Feb. 10 (UPI) — A Maryland man said a $10 lottery voucher and a well-timed traffic light led to his winning $100,000 from a scratch-off ticket.
The Montgomery County man told Maryland Lottery officials he was weighing whether to stop for a ticket while he waited at a traffic light on his way from work.
“I wasn’t going to stop, but when the light was green, I turned. I guess it was the winning stop,” the player recalled.
He pulled into the 7-Eleven on 7th Street in Laurel and spent his $10 lottery voucher on a 50X the Cash ticket, a newly-released scratch-off game…