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Fans Rent Cranes To Watch
Car Race FromOutside
Arena During Pandemic
By Spooky
Dozens of die- hard car racing fans found an ingenious way to support their favorite drivers while also abid- ing social dis- tancing rules – they rented 21 construction cranes and watched the race from above the race track arena.
Sunday is race day at Stadion Żużlowy Motor Lublin in the Polish city of Lublin, but because of the Covid -19 pan- demic, the arena wasn’t full to the brink as it usually is. Social distanc- ing rules dictate that sport venues fill up at only 25 percent capacity, but a few dozen fans found a way to be close to the action without actually setting foot in the arena. They rented 21 construction cranes and lifted themselves up above the stadi- um in groups of three or four.
Photos of them standing on plat- forms and hold- ing flares have been doing the rounds on the internet.
Polish sports news
website WP Sportowe
Fakty reports that at the start of this year’s national Speedway Extra League only three cranes were spotted out- side the Stadion Żużlowy Motor Lublin, but then their numbers increased with every race, and now the man who came up with the idea of using
cranes, one Artur Bieniaszewski, told the Polish publication that he is being flood- ed with requests by fans.
This isn’t the first time sports fans have used con- struction cranes to bypass rules at sporting events. A couple of years ago we wrote about Amigo Ali, a fan of Turkish soccer club Denizlispor who, after being banned from the stadium for a year, rented a crane so he could watch and support his club.
Man Visits 40 stores To Find Sole Remaining $5 million
Scratch-off Prize
By Ben Hooper
July 29 (UPI) -- A North Carolina man on the hunt for the final top prize in a scratch- off lottery game said he visited about 40 different stores before scratching off the $5 million winner.
Kevin Clark of Candler told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he read there was only one top prize remaining in the $5,000,000 Mega Cash scratch-off game, so he set off Thursday to buy as many of the $20 tickets as he could locate.
"I had a real good feeling it was going to be in the western part of the state," Clark said. "I went to about 40 different stores and bought every sin- gle last Mega Cash ticket I could find."
gam-
ble paid off when he scanned a ticket he pur- chased from the StopNGoon U.S. 70 in Swannanoa.
"I scanned it with my phone and it told me to go see a retailer," he recalled. "So, I scratched it off and when I scratched it off I couldn't believe it! I started shaking. And then I cried."
Clark took the
option
of accepting his prize as a $3 mil- lion lump sum, which amounted to $2,122,506 after taxes.
"I'm a simple man and I mow grass," Clark said. "But I've always been interested in real estate, so my biggest plans with the majority of
the money is to invest in real estate and some small business- es."
Clark's pricey