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Truck driver wins $1.9M lottery jackpot, will keep driving
Canada 6/49: Truck driver wins $1.9M lottery jackpot, will keep driving
A recent immigrant to Canada is Manitoba's newest millionaire.
Gennadi Belinov is nearly $2 million richer after he won a share of Wednesday night's $3.9 million Lotto 6/49 draw.
The Winnipeg man said he took a long look at a self-serve ticket checker when he scanned his ticket Thursday evening and learned he had won $1,979,992.
"I thought, 'What are all these numbers?' So, I took it to the clerk and asked if she could check the ticket through her machine. Then the machine said 'Woo hoo', and people in the store started screaming," he said in a media release issued by Western Canada Lottery Corp.
Belinov bought the ticket three days earlier at the same spot — the Red River Co-op gas station near the intersection of Brookside and Inkster boulevards.
"I can't say I really felt anything," he said. "It was like somebody was joking. My brother was with me and I said to him, 'I won $2 million.' My brother turned and walked out of the store."
Despite his sudden good fortune, Belinov said he intends to keep his job as a truck driver and operator.
"What else would I do?" he asked. "I need to show an example to my children."
Belinov and his family came to Winnipeg five years ago.
"Everybody knows Canada is paradise," he said when asked what brought him the country. "Everybody wants to come to Canada."
Belinov said his family is already making plans for what to do with the money.
"When you buy a ticket you start dreaming — a nice house, money for the kids' education, and helping family. My wife has lots of plans," he said.
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10546 Posts Offline |
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Nice to read lottery winners are trusting clerks to check their tickets. * What happens most *
* will most likely happen again *
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Idaho United States Member #56982 November 21, 2007 3223 Posts Offline |
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Nice to read lottery winners are trusting clerks to check their tickets. I don't think the clerk could have done anything anyways, the machine announced that he won and other people around him knew that he won also. The clerk would have been foolish to even try something. (I'm not saying the clerk would take advantage of him. It's just a general statement.) "No one remembers the person who almost climbed the mountain, only the person who eventually gets to the top."
ThatScaryChick
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I don't blame him for keeping his day job.$1.9 million doesn't go as far as it used to.
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Philippines Member #71700 February 20, 2009 223 Posts Offline |
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Congratulations  "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious."
- Vince Lombardi
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Margaritaville United States Member #58035 January 9, 2008 203 Posts Offline |
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Good choice, keep working. $2m does not go that far. It's a nice nest egg for retirement, college education for the kiddies, and the ability to replace your car sooner than you usually do. Congrats to Mr Belinov and his family! 
The machine really says "woo-hoo"? Reminds me of my daughter's game, The Sims. 
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United States Member #61017 April 21, 2008 371 Posts Offline |
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If i lived in Canada I would probably quit working, you don't have to worry about health insurance there.
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United States United States Member #68752 December 16, 2008 124 Posts Offline |
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Congrats. "Wait eagerly for the Lord, and keep to the way; God wil raise you to possess the land; you will gloat when the wicked are cut off".
Psalms 37:34
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PA United States Member #66644 October 16, 2008 114 Posts Offline |
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$1.9 million will take the worry out of paying bills and should provide for a comfortable retirement !!!!!
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United States Member #15415 May 10, 2005 323 Posts Offline |
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Congrats to the Belinov family!
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Massachusetts United States Member #37842 April 14, 2006 126 Posts Offline |
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Wow, what a "welcome to Canada" this is to him and his family.
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United States Member #72957 March 18, 2009 60 Posts Offline |
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If i lived in Canada I would probably quit working, you don't have to worry about health insurance there. If you DID live in Canada and won their non-taxed lottery prize of $1.98 Million , you would be wise to keep working while searching for a safer and higher paying income source. Because, most researchers have noticed that the countries citizens that have "national health insurance" cope regularly with hospitals that are too far away, long waiting lists where many listed die before receiving treatments or surgery that is routine and at least 70% success rate. Thus, the continued 'working income' is necessary in order to have something honest to be involved in that one can have respect for, have more money available to one's family in case one choose to go to the United States of America for receiving immediate/critical healthcare care, and also to be able to live mainly off the 4% annual interest rate (apx. $70,000, before taxes, in this case) one would receive from their winnings. It's time that people start developing longterm financial vision, especially if they have more than themself to finance. In light of this, I think that your statement of "quite working" makes more sense if one netted over $2 Million and is single or $4 Million and financially supports a family of more than 2 people. I have my lottery ticket, am grateful, and am ready to claim my sole-jackpot-win at the lottery headquarters ... which will provide me with rapid financial independance!
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Massachusetts United States Member #37842 April 14, 2006 126 Posts Offline |
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Canadians pay alot of taxes that fund the health care so people who don't work and expect to get free healthcare and other taxpayer funded benefits are a discouragement to those who do. Personally I'd never quit a job that I'm able to do and be a welfare recipient, but thats just me :-)
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