Crime & Safety
Snowplow Driver Takes Break, Wins $225K
And he got back out in the snow and kept plowing! "My family got more excited than I did," he said.
WOODBRIDGE, VA — Students. Shovel manufacturers. Magical snowmen. All feel particularly lucky when snow clouds leave 2 feet of the white powder all over the place. You can add Gerald Fincham to that list.
Snowplow operators sweated through a particularly dry winter season, and finally got a storm event for the record books. What luck!
But Fincham did one better. Taking a break from his work Monday clearing snow-covered roadways with a large motor grader, Fincham bought a scratch-off lottery ticket and won $225,000.
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Grabbing a drink at the Food Lion on Staples Mill Plaza, Fincham grabbed a Pirate’s Treasure Scratcher ticket and won the jackpot.
The odds he’d hit that big prize? 1 in 1,060,800.
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“I was in the right place at the right time,” he said as he claimed his prize this week. “My family got more excited than I did.”
That’s right, Woodbridge. Fincham didn’t let the prize go to his head. He got back in his rig and kept plowing.
Lottery officials say there’s one more $225,000 Pirate’s Treasure prize left to be claimed. So, you can keep scratching and dream.
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