Convenience store owners buy winning ticket from own store

Sep 5, 2003, 9:59 am (7 comments)

New York Lottery

The owners of a Russell, New York convenience store discovered a scratch-off lottery ticket they bought from their own shop a month ago was a $5 million winner.

Kenneth Grimshaw said his sister-in-law, Nancy Grimshaw, started scratching off the ticket after she bought it last month, but set it aside on a countertop when she got busy.

She didn't completely scratch off the ticket until Thursday morning, he said. The 46-year-old woman and her husband, Kendrick Grimshaw, have been co-owners of the store in Russell, about 110 miles north of Syracuse, for two decades.

"They are dumbfounded, simply dumbfounded," Kenneth Grimshaw said. "I don't think it's really sunk in yet."

The winning couple declined to comment on their win on the advice of state Lottery officials, the Ogdensburg Journal said.

The couple drove to the Lottery office in Syracuse on Thursday to confirm the win. After taxes, they will reportedly receive $3.38 million over the next 20 years.

They plan to keep the business open, Kenneth Grimshaw said.

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fja's avatarfja

I feel a comment coming on this about the annuity of 3.38 mill over 20 years.

gilla's avatargilla

Brings a question to my mind,,, if they sell tickets, wouldn't that make them lottery agents... I thought they couldn't win...

Todd's avatarTodd

Lottery agents are allowed to play.

gilla's avatargilla

"The winning couple declined to comment on their win on the advice of state Lottery officials, the Ogdensburg Journal said."

Then it makes me wonder about this statement. Do they do that for everyone?

fja's avatarfja

It seems that they do it for people who sell lottery tickets only to confirm that there was no monkey business with the ticket or the machine.  Lottery agents and there employees are allowed to play

CASH Only

1. People who work in stores selling Hoosier Lottery tickets can play, but must buy tickets at a DIFFERENT store.

2. The wrong choice in NY is 26 annual (increasing per year) payments-and NY still requires the choice when you PLAY.

3. Nobody expected me to post #1, or #3 for that matter.

CASH Only

It could also be that one of their customers wanted to buy a      "CASH VALUE" ticket, but the agent mistakenly printed one for      "26 ANNUAL PAYMENTS", with the dventual loser buying the mistake.

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