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Bram Dunehew, a college student in North Carolina, had no plans of winning $2 million in the lottery when he stopped to refuel his car. On a spur-of-the-moment decision, he bought a $3 Powerball ticket, which turned into a life-changing Halloween windfall! On Friday, October 30, Bram Dunehew stopped for petrol in Harrisburg. 49 to sort it out.
“It’s crazy because I never would have even bought that ticket if the receipt had printed outside,” Dunehew told the NC Education Lottery. Trick or treating was fun as a kid, but this is insane,” he told the outlet. Life does not always go the way we plan. Sometimes, an unexpected detour can lead to something extraordinary. The gas pump failed to print his receipt, sending him inside a convenience store. The errand should have taken five minutes. Fill the tank, grab the receipt and drive home. But the pump had other plans. After filling the tank, the receipt didn’t print. So Dunehew, a Concord resident studying civil engineering at college, walked inside Sam’s Mart on N.C. The college student would not have bought the lottery ticket if the gas station’s printer had not malfunctioned. “I think Halloween’s now my favourite holiday.