Lottery winner to send sales clerk on vacation

Comment #32

jamella724 — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:12:37 GMT

These days you can rarely find a person who keeps his promises. I hope there will be more blessing for him so he can continue to bless other people too. I hope other lottery winner will also share their blessing to other people.

Comment #31

RJOh — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 03:14:07 GMT

What you think doesn't count for much unless you're a winner. Where I regularly buy my tickets, they thank me for my business, it's call appreciation.

Comment #30

lilluv — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 02:42:50 GMT

I thought that most regulars who wins, tip their clerk or who ever play their winning ticket. It's call appreciation.

Comment #29

RJOh — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:23:10 GMT

If the clerk is his wife, she won't be satisfied with only a million, she'll want a wife's share.

Comment #28

TheGameGrl — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 10:26:59 GMT

Lets see, the clerk is your spouse or relative? Now thats a sweet gesture

Comment #27

Teddi — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 05:41:01 GMT

Well then I guess the clerks can thank their lucky stars you weren't the person who won.

You're acting as if it's something terrible and egregious to do something nice to obviously hardworking and friendly people. There is no mention of any family, which is telling. But even if he had children, if he can't set up a proper college fund on that amount of money then either the kids are going to the wrong school or he has way too many children.

Not that any of this matters. It's his money an... [ More ]

Comment #26

mypiemaster — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 04:54:54 GMT

He can spend HIS money, anyway he likes. Maybe he has a crush on the clerk, and want's to buy her affection , which is actually, a schmuck's way, of trying to win over a love interest.

Comment #25

Uff Da! — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:29:09 GMT

Naw, I'll bet the future lucky clerk is his wife or his mother.

Comment #24

psykomo — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:17:23 GMT

IPW:

ONLY in America^^^RING the TOCA BELL

Comment #23

RJOh — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 16:45:37 GMT

Does the future lucky clerk know you as blackjack26241 and that you posted this statement

Comment #22

maximumfun — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 05:56:00 GMT

Nice customer

Comment #21

blackjack26241 — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 04:14:39 GMT

When I win the powerball jackpot I'm going to give the clerk $ 1,000,000.00 in cash ! That's a fact and you'll read about it here.

Comment #20

HaveABall — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 03:32:32 GMT

The State Lottery Headquarters sending a rep to view one of their jackpot ticket printing, lottery vendor's security tapes, apparently, now happens way quicker than it used to!

Fine, as long as the State Lottery Headquarters doesn't play (leak) the video footage immediately on the local and/or national news

Comment #19

Romancandle — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 01:40:50 GMT

No kidding right?

Nice story...

Comment #18

Artist77 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 23:18:01 GMT

I think all lotteries may/should want to do that now after those 2 brothers/store owners pulled that stunt.

Comment #17

Nikkicute — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:53:37 GMT

Mega Millions representative came to the store to time check the company's records

against the store's security footage.

Daang!! They're not playing around lol Reps come to the store? I didn't know that.

Comment #16

EdG1955 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:51:41 GMT

It's his money. If he wants to give $10K to the homeless guy who panhandles outside the store, that's his business. If he has a better relationship with the clerk at his local store than with family members, that's also his business. Not every family is the Waltons.

Comment #15

Uff Da! — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 21:44:40 GMT

Maybe he has no living relatives. Or maybe the ones he has left are criminals or alcoholics or druggies or for some other reason he considers them unworthy. It is his money. If he wants to use a part of it to send the clerk to Korea, so be it. I would personally not tip a clerk at all, because I have no personal relationship to any of them. I do, however, try to buy my tickets at a specific mini-mart where the Korean owner seems particularly pleasant so should I win, he'd get the amount the stat... [ More ]

Comment #14

maringoman — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:54:38 GMT

Coronado, who spends $80 each week playing the lottery.

I might never win if this is what it takes. Thank goodness that is not it. One ticket is the threshold. Coronado is a very generous man. I buy my tickets are random stores so I have no personal attachment to any store clerks. Still, I would reward the one that handed me the life changer

Comment #13

Kee12 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:46:54 GMT

Great story. I read it on ABC news facebook page yesterday. Even though he hasn't fulfilled his promise yet, the old man sure sound like a good man. I hope he enjoys his winning as it has been a long time coming for him.

Comment #12

MADDOG10 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:38:13 GMT

Nice guy, good story..

Comment #11

golfer1960 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:56:45 GMT

In the video he says he's going to pay off his house and send the clerk back to South Korea for a vacation. I think both are very nice, a blessing

Comment #10

dallascowboyfan — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:56:16 GMT

Congratulation Mr. Coronado have fun on ypur trip Ms. Park

Comment #9

faber98 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 16:01:01 GMT

actually, after taxes he doesn't have that much. one would think your family and their children (assuming he has any) would be more entitled to a college fund set up for them than foisting an over tip on an undeserving store clerk. but that's just me. where is the fine line on the tip you say 100k is too much, i say .10 cents is too much. if he filled out his own cards. 10k is way too much that's why it's a story.

Comment #8

Goteki54 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:25:05 GMT

He has $1.5 millon dollars. Ten thousand dollars isn't even one percent of his winnings before taxes. Besides, who cares if his family doesn't like it. It was his ticket, it's his money and his win. Now if he gave $100,000 to the clerk, then that might be a different story.

Comment #7

Goteki54 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:18:45 GMT

Let's see. He spent $40 a week for 17 years, that comes out to $32,640 spent, yet in the end he won $1,567,000 million dollars. I would say that was one hell of a return on his investment. Congrats

Comment #6

faber98 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:37:03 GMT

need to know if it was a quick-pick or not. if a quick-pick generated by the clerk's fingers, maybe a 500.00 tip if he was feely overly generous. if he filled out cards and actually liked the clerk maybe 100.00 would be appropriate. but 10,000.00 is way too much. his relatives if he has any must be fuming.

Comment #5

Jill34786 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:31:38 GMT

A $1.5 million payout for a 2nd tier MM prize...the gentlemen was lucky he bought it in California. Anywhere else and the prize would have been $250k.

Pari-mutuel worked to his advantage this time around

Comment #4

noise-gate — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:05:14 GMT

That's what l'm talking about....

Comment #3

IPlayWeekly — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:35:43 GMT

Awesome story

Comment #2

sully16 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:35:23 GMT

Thats really nice, congrats to the winner and I hope the clerk enjoys a nice vacation.

Comment #1

helpmewin — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:31:22 GMT

Very NICE! Congrats on your win

Lottery winner to send sales clerk on vacation

Lottery Post — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:25:18 GMT

Includes video report

The grateful winner of a Mega Millions lottery prize has promised to give $10,000 to the clerk who sold him a winning ticket so her family can take trip to their home of South Korea.

Sue Park, 54, the owner of Howards Mini Mart in Bakersfield, Calif, says Max Coronado her favorite customer comes to play the lottery three times a week, each time proposing that if he wins, they will go to Korea to start a Taco Bell together.

Of course, I thought he was just playing