Samoeun Am holds a ceremonial check for $1 million from the Georgia Lottery. His brother Samoeuth Am actually bought the ticket and had the payout put in Samoeun Am's name. The Jacksonville brothers aren't getting $1 million in a lump sum, however. The payout will come in $50,000 a year increments over the next 20 years. TERRY DICKSON/The Times-Union
Samoeuth Am drove from Jacksonville earlier this month to buy a lottery ticket at the El Cheapo gas station on Georgia 40. He bought a $1 million winning scratch-off ticket from the cubby hole at the bottom left. TERRY DICKSON/The Times-UnionThe Jacksonville siblings win $1 million in Georgia's $500 Million Club game.
1/14/2008
By Gordon Jackson
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Florida, USA)
KINGSLAND - With a few scratches, brothers Samoeun and Samoeuth Am have achieved a lofty goal only dreamed about by most Americans.
On Jan. 4, Samoeuth Am drove from his Jacksonville home to the El Cheapo gas station on Georgia 40 in Kingsland to buy some Georgia Lottery tickets. Among them was a Georgia's $500 Million Club ticket with a top prize of $1 million.
Am, who is unemployed, said he scratched off the ticket, which costs $20, near the cash register and stared at the ticket in disbelief.
"I kept checking to see if it was the right number," Am said.
Lalu Patel, the store manager, said he watched as Am discovered he had just bought a ticket with the top prize. Unlike tickets drawn with the top prize in the state's twice weekly Georgia Lottery, store owners don't get a cash award for selling the winning ticket.
"It's a scratch-off," Patel said. "We get nothing. But it's really good advertising for the store."
Patel predicted more customers will buy tickets from his store as word spreads his store sold a $1 million winner.
Although he bought the winner, Am gave it to his brother to turn into Georgia Lottery officials to collect the prize of $50,000 a year for the next 20 years. He was awarded his first $50,000 check Monday from Georgia Lottery officials, who traveled to the store where the winning ticket was purchased.
Samoeun Am, an employee at a Jacksonville-based restaurant supply company, said he has no plans to quit his job. The two brothers said they plan to use their winnings to get a loan for a new house.
Samoeuth Am said he also plans a vacation to his native Cambodia this year.
The brothers are also joined by Robert Clark as the Jacksonville area's newest millionaires. Clark, of Orange Park, recently won $1 million in the Florida Lottery's Millionaire Raffle.
Clark could not be reached for comment Monday.
On Jan. 4, Samoeuth Am drove from his Jacksonville home to the El Cheapo gas station on Georgia 40 in Kingsland to buy some Georgia Lottery tickets. Among them was a Georgia's $500 Million Club ticket with a top prize of $1 million.
Am, who is unemployed, said he scratched off the ticket, which costs $20, near the cash register and stared at the ticket in disbelief.
"I kept checking to see if it was the right number," Am said.
Lalu Patel, the store manager, said he watched as Am discovered he had just bought a ticket with the top prize. Unlike tickets drawn with the top prize in the state's twice weekly Georgia Lottery, store owners don't get a cash award for selling the winning ticket.
"It's a scratch-off," Patel said. "We get nothing. But it's really good advertising for the store."
Patel predicted more customers will buy tickets from his store as word spreads his store sold a $1 million winner.
Although he bought the winner, Am gave it to his brother to turn into Georgia Lottery officials to collect the prize of $50,000 a year for the next 20 years. He was awarded his first $50,000 check Monday from Georgia Lottery officials, who traveled to the store where the winning ticket was purchased.
Samoeun Am, an employee at a Jacksonville-based restaurant supply company, said he has no plans to quit his job. The two brothers said they plan to use their winnings to get a loan for a new house.
Samoeuth Am said he also plans a vacation to his native Cambodia this year.
The brothers are also joined by Robert Clark as the Jacksonville area's newest millionaires. Clark, of Orange Park, recently won $1 million in the Florida Lottery's Millionaire Raffle.
Clark could not be reached for comment Monday.
22 comments:
Samoeun, I hope you remember your barang friends here in Cambodia. I need some money to buy a air ticket back to Australia , also I have not had a beer for two days so a extra $500 would help.
Cher Monsieur,
C'est juste pour vous dire qu'il ne faut surtout pas partir vivre au Cambodge, notre cher pays, avec un million de dollars US, vous risquerez d'avoir un problème avec les responsables politiques, ils vont certainement vous bouffer jusqu'à l'os.
Il vaut mieux vivre en paix aux États Unis avec votre million de dollars, et c'est un simple conseil.
Bravo !
that is a goog amount of dough you have their
don't forget to obtain a good financial advisor (preferrably from your community)
now you're more reliable than ever
don't do anything stupid 'cause you'll be legally liable
don't buy land in cambodia
enyoy while it last
buy land in Cambodia and help invest in the country's poor enconomy. Whoever said don't buy land doesn't consider all the good factors that you are doing for your community. As long as you go through good checking to see that the land had belong to no one, in legal paper, and no one in the community can contend against you (you have cousins and resources to check that out simple), then you are good to go.
Don't worry about land grab from officials, they can't do a dam thing when you have full legal and proper pay. You only need to check the locals, because you don't want to seem to be an arrogant westerner, and second you don't want to dispossed your own Khmer people.
You have good karma so far, use it to make good effect of it for your family and other people's lives whenever you can.
Good luck!
Samoeun,If you donate your free money $10,000.00 to SRP and $10,000.00 to HRP,iT will be great for your name as a Khmer nationalism.Don't build the Temple but donate to the campaign.Don't give the Cambodian people a fish better teach them how to fish.
Congratulation.
Only in AMERICA,"ANANIKUM AMERICA RULES!"
Having a lot of money is like shooting oneself in the foot because now everybody want your money too if you are not careful such Uncle SAM, friends, relatives, stranger, mobster...ahahahhahhah!
Good Luck! I hope that your perception about the value of money doesn't change because too often an instant millionaire tend to look down on the value of money and they began to spent their million dollars in a careless manner and at the end they ran up huge debt that can't never repay back!
80% of all instant millionaire ends up broke with huge debt and that is a fact!
$50,000 a year is not much different than an average American working for $25 an hour! Only, they don't have to work, just collecting money. You right 8:48am, they'd better be careful and don't they have to pay the 15-28% income tax, yet? and there are two winners with one lottery ticket here. That is a 12 bucks an hour's job. Don't quit working just,yet and when that money coming buying gold and a $50 millions life insurance, put yourself in school and when you're done, go back to Cambodia and work for the good cause of our country and work for the Sam Rainsey's party!!!Yeah!!!!!!!!!!
Hey! Do you have a wife or a kid ? Make sure your wife gets all the money that she needs. Your kids' college are all paid for and if you don't, put that 50 millions bucks life insurance in your will that when you die, all the money should go to the orphan kids in Cambodia. That's right! You need to do the right thing for one and stay away from those people that trying to sell you some powders! Now go get your body massage! and take your mother to dine at the most expensive restaurant in town! Sure! you can touch the sky big Men!
Great!! I would keep trying to participate in such events and buy raffle tickets to check myself worthy enough to strike it gold.
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