Man Wins $1 Million On Lottery Scratch Ticket, Spends It All On More Scratch Tickets
A St. Louis man was lucky enough to attainÂ something almost everyoneÂ in the world dreams about whenÂ last Wednesday he hit the jackpot on a state-sponsored scratch-off ticket. Robert Henry, age 43, won a whopping one million dollars on a scratch off ticketÂ he purchased at a Puff-N-Stop gas station.âHe is obviously a huge gambler with a serious addiction,â said store clerk Charles DeWitt. âHe always has been as far as I can tell, since he comes in two, sometimes three times a day to buy scratchers. Heâs been doing it for as long as Iâve owned the store, which is about 11 year or so now. Iâm not surprised he won big, but I am surprised it took this long.âSadly, things seemed to take an immediate turn for the worse, as Henry, despite winning more money in that one moment than heâd ever had in his life, curiously took all the winnings and used the money to buy more scratch tickets.âWe were pretty stocked on scratch tickets here, and when Robert came in and asked for every scratcher we had, I laughed for a good while,â said Joe Perry, a clerk at a St. Louis Cumberland Farms gas station. âIt wasnât until I realized [Mr. Henry] was serious that I sold him the tickets. All-told, he spent about $50,000 alone just in my shop.âAccording to Henryâs now soon to be ex-wife, he bounced around from store to store throughout the entire city, until all his winnings were spent. After buying several hundred thousand tickets, Henryâs winnings ended up being approximately $325.âThatâs why I left the dumb sumbitch,â said Charlene Henry, Robertâs wife of 20 years. âI didnât even know heâd won the million. He didnât tell me until afterwards. He collected won, drove to the state lottery offices, collected the winnings, and went right back out. I never saw a penny of that money, and neither did he, the stupid-ass.ââWell, they say hindsight is 20-20,â said Henry from his room at a local addiction clinic. âNext time maybe Iâll save some of that money instead. But hey, itâs winning that counts, right?âÂ