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Surveillance video from Bagel Dock Express in Southport, North Carolina, shows a 3-foot alligator coming in through an open back door, passing through the stockroom and kitchen and ending up near the front counter, NBC 6 South Florida reports. The shop was closed at the time, on Oct. 29, and owner Jesse Driscoll was there while a new oven was being installed, Boston 25 News reports.

"Never in a million years did I think I'd see an alligator," Driscoll told WWAY. He called 911; Southport police and Animal Protective Services caught the young alligator and relocated it, and no one was hurt. Police joked "Alligator- Isle 1" on social media, and the shop's Facebook post of the video said "word of our fresh bagels has made its way into the swamp!" The video spread widely this week.

Bram Dunehew of Concord, North Carolina, a college student studying civil engineering, filled up his car on Friday, but the pump didn't print his receipt, so he went inside the store, the North Carolina Education Lottery says. While there he bought a $3 Powerball ticket.

In Saturday's Halloween drawing, the ticket matched all five white balls for $1 million, doubled to $2 million by the Power Play option. "It's crazy because I never would have even bought that ticket if the receipt printed outside," he said. He bought it at Sam's Mart on N.C. 49 in Harrisburg and took home $1,440,201 after federal and state tax withholding. He told the lottery he plans to buy his father a Cadillac and that "Halloween's now my favorite holiday."