Son tricked his mom with fake lottery tickets before. This last one was different
A woman in North Carolina won $100,000 with a scratch-off ticket given to her by her son on New Year’s Day.
Like most winners, she didn’t believe it at first — but with good reason.
“I thought it was a joke because he’s given me fake tickets before,” Jacqueline Carpenter said in a news release announcing the win. “When I showed it to him, he about put a hole in my ceiling he jumped so high. That’s when I knew it was real.”
Carpenter’s son Adrian bought a pile of scratch-offs at a corner store in Dallas — less than 20 miles outside of Charlotte — after a hunting trip, officials with the N.C. Education Lottery said.
He reportedly planned to visit with his mom on his way home and knew she liked to play the $5 scratch-offs, so he bought a few.
Carpenter was skeptical when her son tore off the top ticket and handed it to her.
Then she discovered it was real.
“She was ecstatic. She was literally floating,” her son said. “It gave me pure joy to see her so happy.”
Carpenter claimed $70,751 from the N.C. Education Lottery headquarters after taxes according to the release.
She said she doesn’t have “a single thing that I want or need” and plans to give the money to her kids and grandkids.
But her son wasn’t having it.
“That’s what she thinks,” he said. “I’m not going to take a penny. She deserves to keep everything for herself.”
This story was originally published January 3, 2020 at 12:13 PM with the headline "Son tricked his mom with fake lottery tickets before. This last one was different."
