Pair beats lottery odds again - Virginia couple hits jackpot 11 years after winning $9.7 million

Associated Press ^ | November 27, 2002 | Associated Press Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Pair beats lottery odds again

Virginia couple hits jackpot 11 years after winning $9.7 million

11/27/2002

Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. - Winners of a $9.7 million Virginia Lotto jackpot 11 years ago, Clyde and Edith Shinault could afford to spend $60 a week on lottery tickets.

Now they can afford to spend even more.

The Henrico County couple recently bought a scratch ticket that will provide them $1,000 a week for life. They won the big jackpot in 1991, beating odds of 7.1 million-to-one.

"They are the largest two-time winners in the history of the Virginia Lottery," said Lottery Director Penelope Kyle.

They found their latest winnings among 16 "Win for Life" tickets they purchased last week at a convenience store.

"When she said 'Whoopee!' I had thought she had a hundred-dollar winner," Mr. Shinault said Monday.

The odds of winning were 1.2 million-to-one. Ms. Shinault, 59, will receive quarterly checks worth $13,000 before taxes as long as she lives.

The Shinaults continue to receive a $335,000 check each May from their first jackpot.

Not long after hitting that jackpot, both found out that they had cancer. Both have recovered.

"Our doctors tell us we're cancer-free," Mr. Shinault said. "I'd rather hear that news than hit the lottery."

While they have used their first winnings to travel and buy a larger house, their latest fortune will benefit their three grown sons and their families, they said.

And some, of course, will go to more lottery tickets.

"We could hit it again," Mr. Shinault said.

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[MeekOneGOP]

[MeekOneGOP]

Write to these nice folks and see if they will adopt us, okay?

[ErnBatavia]

"We could hit it again," Mr. Shinault said.

Now THAT is optimism!

[Prodigal Son]

I knew a guy in the Army who was struck by lightning twice. Some people don't believe in luck. Others will tell you different. If you're not Irish, don't play games of chance with Irish people in Ireland. That's my advice. I've lost a fair amount of money doing that.

The fellow who got struck twice by lightning went on to die in a DUI accident the night before he was to leave Germany and PCS back to the States. His streak of bad luck had come to an end.

[EdReform]

Maybe they'd like to become "Dollar-A-Day" Freepers!! ;o)

Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving to all!!

[tort_feasor]

I saw a discovery channel show about a park ranger who kept getting struck. After about the fourth or fifth time he took to carrying a bucket of water around to put out the fires on himself.

[sharktrager]

I just wonder why someone would spend $60 a week on lottery tickets. Especially if they already won $9.7 million.

[Mo1]

LOL ... Happy Thanksgiving Ed

[TxBec]

Can I be adopted too?

[Hatteras]

These people are stupid. Don't they know that no one has a chance at winning. Why my chances of winning are just as good and I don't even have a ticket! Why, this is just a tax on the mathematically challenged, trailerpark trash, welfare sucking scumbags!

These poor slobs are SOOOOO stupid........stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stu...

[Charlie OK]

man. they couldnt stop playing even after they've won 10 million dollars? Don't take them to Vegas!

[Eowyn-of-Rohan]

GREEDY! 9 mil isn't enough? Let someone else win!

[RottiBiz]

Maybe!! LOL.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, too.

[Wright is right!]

"GREEDY! 9 mil isn't enough? Let someone else win!"

They let a LOT of other people win in the time between when they first hit the jackpot and this latest bit of good fortune.

By your reasoning, Barry Bonds should have stopped when he hit his first major league home run "so that other players could hit home runs."

Michael

[Hatteras]

My wife has a sister whose father-in-law won the Maryland Lottery (about 2.5 million) about 10+ years ago. He went out and bought a new Ford truck with all the buttons and whistles, bought his wife a Cadillac and ran down to Circuit City and bought a 27 inch Mitsubishi TV that they brought home and sat right up on top of the broken old Zenith console TV that had died about 6 months earlier...

He was a 35+ year employee of the local power company and was right back at work on the following Monday and worked for another 5 years before he finally retired.

Downside? Their only grandson is my son's closest cousin and life isn't fair for my son because his cousin has every cool toy known to 14 year olds: four-wheelers, paintball accessories, video games, mini-bikes, you name it. And "John-John even gets to cut the lawn on a TRACTOR!" Life just isn't fair....

[Prodigal Son]

Yeah, I think he's the world record holder. I remember reading about him in the Guiness Book when I was a kid. This fellow in the Army, we called him "Lightning" as a joke. The lightning had affected him somehow- he talked really slow and walked slow as well. He was a good mechanic though. But if a storm started rolling up he'd say "I need to get my ass indoors".

[Prodigal Son]

I just wonder why someone would spend $60 a week on lottery tickets. Especially if they already won $9.7 million.

Aye, I agree. Particularly after they already won. You'd think they'd do better throwing their 60 bones a week into penny stocks. But then- they hit it again, what do I know?

[Grampa Dave]

We have this friend that we are sure has won at least once in the lottery. In Kali you can keep it a secret if you win. He is the luckiest guy in the world when it comes charity events drawings and raffles.

One time he and his wife came late to a charity for the local hospital. There was some wonderful drawing for great trip. There was one raffle ticket left, and he bought it.

They put his ticket in this hugh drum with thousands of other tickets and rotated it off and on for about an hour. He won the vacation package with one ticket. Most of us had at least 20 tickets or $100 invested.

Then they gave their week in to a time share to our church at a fund raising raffle. It was one of the prizes. Their tickets were drawn three times, and they kept refusing to accept their own donation of a time share week. Finally a ticket from another family was drawn.

We used to have big fund raisers for the ducks, and this guy won all the time. Then we went two years in a row and he and no one at our table won. Our older son was about 20 at the time and said that he felt the fix was in as a few elites were the winners drawing after drawing. We stopped going and so did a lot of others. The event finally was stopped as only the elites were buying tickets. Rumors still leak out that there was a big time fix on this event. We felt that if our winning friend and 11 more of us couldn't win, the fix was in.

[MeekOneGOP]

Can I be adopted too?

Sure ! Add TxBec to your letter, Maxwell. LOL !!

[MeekOneGOP]

Yeah, but they're gonna adopt me, Maxwell and TxBec ! LOL!