Florida man wins US$1mil the day he opened his auto shop

CALLAHAN (Florida, USA): A Florida man won US$1 million (RM4.1mil) in a lottery game the same day he and his wife opened an auto repair shop.

Brian Woodle, 46, bought the US$5 Gold Rush Supreme scratch-off ticket from a Circle K the town of Callahan, 600km north of Miami.

"I love working on vehicles and it has always been my dream to own my own repair shop,” Woodle said in a news release sent by the Florida Lottery.

"At the end of our first day, I stopped by Circle K to get a few things and picked up a Lottery ticket; just like that we won a million bucks!”

He selected to receive a one-time, lump-sum payment of US$880,000 (RM3.6mil), the lottery said. The Circle K store will receive a US$2,000 (RM8,273) bonus commission for selling the winning ticket.