Truck driver wins $1.9M lottery jackpot, will keep driving

Comment #12

maringoman — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:15:17 GMT

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

Comment #11

HaveABall — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:03:46 GMT

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... [ More ]

Comment #10

maringoman — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:10:55 GMT

Wow, what a welcome to Canada this is to him and his family.

Comment #9

wizeguy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:07:44 GMT

Congrats to the Belinov family

Comment #8

dpoly1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:11:18 GMT

$1.9 million will take the worry out of paying bills and should provide for a comfortable retirement

Comment #7

Halle99 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:19:27 GMT

Congrats.

Comment #6

GamerMom — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:09:14 GMT

If i lived in Canada I would probably quit working, you don't have to worry about health insurance there.

Comment #5

Piaceri — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:08:48 GMT

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.

Comment #4

marlon39 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:45:48 GMT

Congratulations

Comment #3

MaddMike51 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:04:37 GMT

I don't blame him for keeping his day job.$1.9 million doesn't go as far as it used to.

Comment #2

ThatScaryChick — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:32:03 GMT

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.

Comment #1

RJOh — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:14:43 GMT

Nice to read lottery winners are trusting clerks to check their tickets.

Truck driver wins $1.9M lottery jackpot, will keep driving

Lottery Post — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:54:33 GMT

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... [ More ]