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Belk said it wasn't until two weeks later, when he made a trip to the Hop In & Out store in Lexington to buy a Mega Millions ticket, that he noticed the forgotten Cash 5 ticket still on the seat of his vehicle.
He took the ticket into the store, where he scanned it on the machine and discovered it was a $468,052 jackpot winner.
"I was thinking, 'This is great,'" Belk recalled. "Real exciting."
Belk, who claimed his prize Tuesday at lottery headquarters in Raleigh, said some of the money will go toward buying his wife a 2018 Cadillac CT6 and doing some home improvement projects. He said the rest will go into savings.