Quick stop after work earns S.C. man a $500,000 lottery prize

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA South Carolina man stopped at a store after work, bought a ten dollar scratch-off, and won five hundred thousand dollars, UPI reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA quick stop. That's all it took. He didn't even have to leave his routine.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe game was Triple Red 777, and the lottery puts the odds of that top prize at one Eastern in one million, two hundred seventy-two thousand.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo he beat odds like that on a Rock Hill errand. I'd call it a very successful commute.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHere's the part I can't process. After cashing the ticket, he went back to work.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBack to work?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd he's staying anonymous. Zero posts. No video of him screaming in a parking lot. That's a level of restraint I've never seen online.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe said maybe he'll believe it when it hits his bank account.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd frame that as a man doing his own fact check, and a textbook one at that.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFour top prizes are still out there in that game, so somewhere a guy is walking out of work with a very specific plan to stop at that store.