Man with stage 4 cancer wins $250,000 lottery prize
A man with stage 5 cancer has won a huge lottery prize, $250,000 to be exact! Now he can go on the trip of his dreams around the world.
A man stricken with stage 4 liver cancer is planning his dream vacation after winning the lottery.
Richard Beare, of Charlotte, North Carolina, said he plans to use the $250,000 jackpot he claimed Monday to travel the world with his wife ‘while I can still enjoy myself,’ he said.
Beare said he rarely plays the lottery and only stopped by the Quick Trip convenience store because his wife asked him to get a Powerball ticket – but the Powerball ticket is not how he ended up scoring the windfall of cash.
He said he decided to buy four scratch-off tickets once he was inside the store and the last ticket ended up being the big winner.
Richard Beare plans to travel the world with the lottery jackpot he won on Monday (Picture: NC Education Lottery)
Beare was not even sure how to read the scratch-offs, so he had to ask the store clerk for help.
‘I asked her: “‘What does it mean if I match the numbers?’” Beare said in a press release by the North Carolina Education Lottery. ‘She said it meant I won a prize. I told her, “Well, I guess we just won $250,000 then.” She was in shock and just kept looking back and forth to me and the ticket.’
After state and federal taxes, Beare ended up with $176,876, according to state officials. ‘My life has always wanted to go to Italy, since that’s where her descendants are from. Now I can take her. This feels great. It’s such a relief,’ he said in the release.
