Tuesday, August 10, 2010

She Bought her Lucky Ticket from the Luck Store


This story is nice because this nice couple won a $50,000 lottery prize on a $5 scratch ticket and got to go on their first real vacation. What I think is crazy is the same store has sold winning lottery tickets 11 times. If I'm ever in Farmington, NM that's where I'm picking up my tickets. I may even buy one of those awesome Kiss scratch tickets they have. Here's the story as reported by the Farmington, New Mexico Daily Times.

Farmington lottery winner goes on first 'real' vacation

FARMINGTON — The best five dollar bill is one that turns into a $50,000 bill.

Farmington's April Lopez found Monday evening that her $5 "Crossword Doubler" scratcher was a winning lottery ticket. She bought the ticket at Giant Station No. 4 at 531 E. Broadway, where 11 other winning tickets previously have been sold. She was picking up barbecue goods for her family's dinner that night when she picked up the winning ticket.

"I told her not to get ahead of herself. I didn't want her to get too excited," said her husband Jose Lopez. April said she was jumping and screaming at the news of her winnings and hopped in the car that same night to catch her prize.

"They broke into a big smile, and they were as sweet as can be," said New Mexico Lottery Spokeswoman Linda Hamlin. "I meet winners every single day, and it's amazing that they all have a different story."

The couple's first splurge was on their family's first "real" vacation. They took their three children to Albuquerque this week to tour amusement parks and the city's zoo.

"They were definitely thinking of their children first," Hamlin said.

Afterward, the couple will fly, just the two of them, to Las Vegas. They recently celebrated a wedding anniversary and would like to spend some extra time together. And then they plan on paying off the bills.

Granted, the Lopez family, and other winners, are not the only benefactors of this program. Read the whole story...

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