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Man Runs Out of Gas, Buys Lottery Ticket - Wins!
WYFF4.com

ABBEVILLE, S.C. — An Abbeville man is the newest lottery winner in the Upstate.

Lottery officials said the man was on his way to get a haircut, when he ran out of gas.

They said he ended up walking the rest of the way into town and on his way bought a lottery ticket.

The scratch-off ticket ended up being a winner, and the man won $200,000.

Lottery officials said the man bought the ticket at Rosenberg’s Spirits, which won $2,000 for selling the winning ticket.

The man told lottery officials the Cash Blowout winnings will make a great down payment on a farm.

Two top prizes of $200,000 remain in the Cash Blowout game. Odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 440,000.

Approximately 97 cents of every dollar spent by players on the South Carolina Education Lottery is returned to the state in the form of funding for education, prizes, retailer commissions and payment to contractors for goods and services.





TeenFights Mom Over Starbucks Coffee
By Todd Wright

One South Florida son's behavior toward his mom probably wouldn't be described as good to the last drop.

The Port St. Lucie resident is charged with battery for the incident earlier in the week, just days before Mother's Day.

Starbucks is delicious, but not "so good, it will make you wanna slap yo mama" delicious. That didn't stop Quintana from crying over spilled coffee.

Brandon Scott Quintana, 19, was taken to jail after he allegedly got physical with his mom because she drank his Starbucks iced coffee, TCPalm.com reported.

The spat started when Quintana's 43-year-old mom woke up from a nap with a parched throat. She saw her son's Starbucks in the refrigerator and probably thought it was safe to drink.

After all, she did give birth to the kid. Wrong.

When Quintana got home, he was looking for his chilled treat. When he couldn't find it, he threw a temper tantrum, police said.

Quintana allegedly told police he was "pissed off because he spent every cent on that coffee" and that what his mom did amounted to stealing.

Cops didn't quite see it that way.

Quintana's mom said she tried to solve the problem with her son by offering a 2-liter soda as a replacement for the Starbucks, but he pushed her into a computer chair.