Winner, winner, chicken dinner – literally.
A Virginia man recently went to the grocery store to pick up some chicken – and came back half a million dollars richer.
Russell Gomes, of South Boston, Virginia, went to the Food Lion grocery store recently to buy chicken, he told the Virginia Lottery’s website.
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South Boston is located in southern Virginia, about 20 miles north of the North Carolina border.
While he was shopping, he decided to buy a scratch-off ticket – specifically, the Virginia Lottery’s “Magnificent 7s” scratcher.
Gomes, a tractor-trailer driver, went to scratch off his ticket in the…