Lawrenceville woman wins Ford Bronco in Georgia Lottery

I want to tell you about this next story that certainly has me dreaming big. And that's because a Lawrenceville woman says she manifested her brand new ride buying Ford Bronco clothes before she even won one. And now she's getting the keys to a Georgia Lottery second chance promotion. And our Fox 5 photojournalist Tim Whaley, he's the man behind the camera for Paul Milliken. He is in front of the camera this afternoon. Joining us now live with the details on this one. Tim, I am so glad you're here. This is kind of a cool story. Oh yeah, Tyler. How you doing, man? Yeah, it very much is a cool story. Georgia Lottery has teamed up with Athens Ford to give away a Ford Bronco. And man, I'm going to get out of the camera and show you guys the winner. Hold on real quick. Hands in the way. And this is Marisol Rodriguez. Marisol, how are you? Good, thank you. And just tell me a little bit about, first of all, tell me your story. So what pretty much happened is I have a BP by my house that I always go there to buy lottery tickets. I seen that they were giving out a Bronco so I started playing it since the first Bronco was given out. I didn't win the first month so I started manifesting it. I even bought like a Bronco shirt and at the end I won it on my mom's birthday which was September 30th so I'm really I'm really excited. When you pulled up, what did you think? I couldn't believe it. I felt, I get like a little nervous. I started kind of shaking a little bit, but I still can't believe it. It feels like a dream right now. You were in a kind of a tight spot before you got this. Talk a little bit about this. What happened? So yes, so my other car is actually on my mom's name, under her name, and on her birthday I had to get the emissions done, which was going to fail because I had the check engine light. So I was already upset with that. So literally when my car was failing the emissions, that's when they emailed me to let me know that I won the Bronco. I couldn't believe it. Until I called the lady at Georgia Lottery and she told me it was real, I still couldn't believe it. I thought it was a scam, so I had to go on the Georgia Lottery website just to confirm. And when it did, I started crying, started screaming. I could not believe it. And let me go ahead and we're going to talk to Frank Taylor with Georgia Lottery. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Man, this is a huge, huge thing. Talk a little bit about what's going on. Yeah, so today we're here at Athens 4 to celebrate the win for Ms. Rodriguez. She actually entered a second chance promotion, extra buck and buck. You can enter your non-winning tickets to get a chance to win a 2026 Ford Bronco Big Ben, which she has won today. And so she is a winner, and we're here to celebrate her as a winner. Georgia students win every day through HOPE and Pre-K. We've already given away $31.7 billion to HOPE and Pre-K. Wow. Yeah, 2.3 million students have received the HOPE scholarship, and 2.3 million students have received Pre-K. This isn't the first time you guys have donated a truck or done this thing, have you? No, we've done that over the years. Several cars, several trucks. Yes, absolutely. Man, how does it make you feel to see the bright eyes and the smile on the trucker here? You know, this is what we live for, right? For people in Georgia either to win through being a student or also being a player. And so we wanna thank you for being a player at the Georgia Lottery. And so today I wanna present you with a 2026 Ford Bronco. Congratulations. You are very welcome. All right, man. Let's go see this car. Let's go see the whip. Let's go ahead. I'm ready. I'm ready. What you thinking? This is crazy. An upgrade for sure. It's beautiful. Let's crank it up. Let's see what you got. That's crazy. I still can't believe it. I just appreciate it so much. You know, it was just meant to be. It was meant to be. Thank you. Thank you. Tim, this is amazing. You see what it is? And you got to do it right on air. I know, right? What are you, Paul Millican? You got to do it right on air, live? They handed the keys? I mean, Tim. Definitely not Paul, but yeah. Tim, this is so amazing. I'm going to see if I can go get a ride, yo. Yeah. I'm going to see if she can take me back to the station. This makes me want to play the lottery and do the second chance promotion because you get two chances, I guess, at winning. I didn't even know that stuff like this existed. For sure, for sure. And just talking with Frank here, the money that goes to a really good cause to help college kids or help kids in college or going to college with the Hope Scholarship. So, yeah, it's a win-win for everybody here, man. Well, Tim Whaley, I appreciate you joining us live from Athens and showing us this and getting to watch all this unfold on TV where she got the keys to her brand new Bronco. And the fact that she manifested this is just absolutely amazing. Tim, thanks so much for joining us.