Man wins Virginia's New Year's Millionaire Raffle prize for the second time

UPI ^ | JAN. 8, 2024 / 3:09 PM | By Ben Hooper

[Red Badger]

Nathan Dean won a $100,000 prize from Virginia's New Year's Millionaire Raffle 12 years after winning $25,000 from the raffle. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Lottery

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A Virginia man won $100,000 in the state lottery's Virginia's New Year's Millionaire Raffle 12 years after he won a $25,000 prize in the raffle.

Virginia Lottery officials said Nathan Dean of Henrico bought his raffle ticket at the Food Lion on Lauderdale Drive in Henrico and he won a $100,000 second-tier prize in the Jan. 1 Virginia's New Year's Millionaire Raffle.

Dean said his previous win of a second-tier prize when the amount was $25,000 in 2012 made it difficult to convince his wife that his latest win wasn't a joke.

"It took a bit to convince my wife I wasn't messing with her," Dean told Virginia Lottery officials. "She said, 'There's no way you've won it again!'"

Dean, an environmental chemist, said he has no immediate plans for the winnings.

[Red Badger]

“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[Vigilanteman]

Who wants to bet he regularly blows $100 per week or more on lottery tickets?

[Gary from Dayton]

He’s only blowing the money if he loses. It’s the other million people who blew their money.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Exactly. My brother won $100,000 in the lottery once. About half of it went back into more lottery tickets.

[Vigilanteman]

Pretty much 99% of the people who play the lottery lose. 99% of the remaining 1% win a trivial prize. Or something like that.

[BobL]

“Man wins Virginia’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle prize for the second time”

He likely finished spending the first million...