North Carolina man wins lottery for SECOND time in two years trends now
A North Carolina construction worker is counting his lucky stars after winning a scratch-off jackpot not once, but twice, in the span of just as many years.
Pharris Frank, 41, was already a near-millionaire when he bought his second winning ticket last week while out on a job in Morehead City.
Stopping at a local gas station for a bite, Frank bought the $20 Diamond Dazzle ticket - with a one-in-1,528,470 chance of hitting its eyewatering $2million top prize.
And against all odds, the blue collar worker hit - leading him to call his wife at their home four hours away to tell her about the life-changing haul.
However, Frank and his wife already saw their lives change in 2021 in a startling similar manner with a separate $1million jackpot on a $25 Extreme Cash scratcher -whose odds were an even more astronomical one-in-2,017,650.
DEJA VU: Pharris Frank - seen here with his wife - was a near-millionaire when he bought his second ticket last week (at left), for a $900,000 lump sum after taxes. That came on on top of $425,000 he won from a jackpot in 2021 - for a twofold win whose odds are one in three trillion
The Lucky laborer bought the winning ticket while out on a job the Handy House gas station food mart - a location across the state from his home and where he purchased his first winner
The odds of securing the consecutive top prizes are an astounding one in three trillion - amounting to not only millions, but an occurrence roughly 200million times more rare than being stuck by lighting.
Speaking to the lotto company who sold him the winning tickets Monday, the lucky laborer insisted that he accurately predicted his second win following his initial one in July 2021.
He added how he felt it amazing that he had purchased the second ticket a considerable distance from where he had bought the first, back more than four hours away in his and his
