A cut above: Columbus man seeks haircut, wins $15,000

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

ATLANTA – A Columbus man has won the lottery head on. Charles Claybrooks won a $15,000 top prize playing $15,000 Football Fever, a Georgia Lottery instant game, while on his way to get a haircut.

Claybrooks, 18, stopped at CITGO Food Store #0201, 2362 S. Lumpkin Road in Columbus, and purchased a ticket. He scratched it in the parking lot of the barbershop.

"I was surprised," he said. "I turned around and went home."

Claybrooks, who recently enlisted in the Army, plans to purchase a new car.

"I am quite excited," he exclaimed.

Since its first year, the Georgia Lottery Corporation has returned more than $11 billion to the state of Georgia for education. All Georgia Lottery profits go to pay for specific educational programs including Georgia's HOPE Scholarship Program and Georgia's Pre-K Program. More than 1.1 million students have received HOPE, and more than 940,000 4-year-olds have attended the statewide, voluntary prekindergarten program.

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