N.C. woman plays lottery for first time, wins $100K

Sep 19, 2014, 3:37 pm (26 comments)

North Carolina Lottery

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Education Lottery officials say a Greensboro woman played the lottery for the first time and won big.

Jamiela Hardick told officials she wanted to try her luck Monday with two lottery tickets. She won $5 on one and $100,000 on the other.

She said she bought a $5 Crossword 10K ticket and a $5 Mega Bucks ticket at the Sheetz on West Wendover Avenue in Greensboro. She won her $5 back on the Crossword 10K ticket and the top prize of the Mega Bucks game.

After taxes were withheld, Hardrick, 21, received a check for $69,201. She said she plans to use her prize money to help pay her way to college where she plans to study nursing.

As of Thursday, six more $100,000 top prizes remain to be claimed in the Mega Bucks game.

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Comments

Marilyn222's avatarMarilyn222

If I win, it will be my first time to buy a lottery ticket too...Green laugh

Drenick1's avatarDrenick1

That will be my story and I'm sticking to it.

sandia's avatarsandia

    Lucky lady. First time or not, that is an annual salary of some professionals. Enjoy it.

Stack47

Quote: Originally posted by sandia on Sep 19, 2014

    Lucky lady. First time or not, that is an annual salary of some professionals. Enjoy it.

I Agree!

Rose Marie

they sure took out a lot of taxes31,000 , I though that taxes was 7% on a dollar, oh" I forgot they go by the color of your skin.

maringoman's avatarmaringoman

Quote: Originally posted by Rose Marie on Sep 19, 2014

they sure took out a lot of taxes31,000 , I though that taxes was 7% on a dollar, oh" I forgot they go by the color of your skin.

Stop that. Let's just be happy for this young lady. Ask where you don't understand. Good luck to you.Thumbs Up

sully16's avatarsully16

Congrats to the lucky lady Cheers

mikeintexas's avatarmikeintexas

Quote: Originally posted by Rose Marie on Sep 19, 2014

they sure took out a lot of taxes31,000 , I though that taxes was 7% on a dollar, oh" I forgot they go by the color of your skin.

They took out the 5.8% N.Carolina state tax and the 25% Federal tax.  Depending upon her other income and deductions, she may get some of that back or she may have to pay more the next time she files.  I'm guessing she'll get a hefty refund, good for her.

Think's avatarThink

Quote: Originally posted by Rose Marie on Sep 19, 2014

they sure took out a lot of taxes31,000 , I though that taxes was 7% on a dollar, oh" I forgot they go by the color of your skin.

No, they took it out based on the color of THEIR skin....red...with horns on their heads...

CDanaT's avatarCDanaT

Quote: Originally posted by Rose Marie on Sep 19, 2014

they sure took out a lot of taxes31,000 , I though that taxes was 7% on a dollar, oh" I forgot they go by the color of your skin.

Really ....complaining about having to pay taxes and top it off with the skin color comment ?

Goodness gracious... There you have it America ...it's official...You can't fix gormless !!


On the brighter side, congrats to Jamiela and her career choice. I truly wish you the very best young lady

IPlayWeekly's avatarIPlayWeekly

Awesome win, of course stuff like that can't happen to me... I'll have to spend 50k to get 100k, just my luck.  lol. 

Congrats

dallascowboyfan's avatardallascowboyfan

Congratulation Jamiela and well wisheson your future endeavor you are doing the right thing by paying for education. Thumbs Up

Litebets27's avatarLitebets27

Congratulations Ms Hardrick.

Good luck with your future Nursing career, (another life time reward).

Goteki54's avatarGoteki54

I must have done something wrong when I played for the first time, I lost!!Idea

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