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Couple Wins $100,000 on Stop to Change a Diaper

5/22/2013 12:36:14 PM

COLUMBIA, SC (May 22, 2013) – An Orangeburg couple has a great story to tell their daughter when she’s older. It was her dirty diaper that helped win the family $100,000 in the Lottery.

The family was traveling Interstate 26 over the weekend when they had to exit to change her diaper. They pulled in at the 7-Eleven on Piney Grove Rd. in Columbia and before getting back on the Interstate, the mother ran in to the store to get her husband a ticket to scratch.

“It put a smile on my face,” he said seeing the $100,000 printed on the ticket.

While the young couple declined to release their names or plans for the winnings, they are enjoying the humor in how they won.

A stop to change a dirty diaper may have funded their daughter’s college education.

As of this release, three top prizes of $100,000 remain in the ($5) “7” game. Odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 400,000.

For selling the claimed ticket, 7-Eleven #36831H in Columbia received a commission of $1,000.

To date, lottery play has resulted in more than $3 BILLION transferred to support education.

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