Street vendor on Phuket’s Bangla Rd wins B6 million on lottery

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Street vendor on Phuket’s Bangla Rd wins B6 million on lottery
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Bangla street vendor Phuongpeng Boonphet and her boyfriend present the pair of lottery tickets that won B6 milliom. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

PHUKET: -- A woman who makes her living selling cigarettes on Phuket’s Bangla Rd, in Patong, hit the jackpot yesterday (Feb 16), when she won B6 million on the national lottery.

Phuongphen Boonphet, 45, from Buriram, presented her winning tickets at Kathu Police Station at 6pm.

Ms Phuongphen arrived at the station with her boyfriend and present a pair of lottery tickets bearing the number 356364.

Lt Col Pramuan Jaikrathok, beaming a smile over Ms Phuongphen’s good fortune, received the report of the winning tickets.

It is common practice for lottery winners to present their winning tickets to the nearest police station as soon as possible to prevent loss, theft or fraudsters from costing the genuine lottery winners their prizes.

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/street-vendor-on-phuket-bangla-rd-wins-b6-million-on-lottery-56254.php


-- Phuket News 2016-02-17

[OttoPollmann]

Congratulation and now run.

Family members you have never seen in your life will borrow money from you.

[LivinginKata]

Congratulation and now run.

Family members you have never seen in your life will borrow money from you.

Exactly ... that 6 million will soon be gone in no-time. Pay off own debts, help all the beggars. Easy come ... easy go ...

[eisfeld]

Don't forget the mandatory visit of a casino

[sebastion]

Issan just got a few more Toyota Fortuna sales.

[Beng]

It is common practice for lottery winners to present their winning tickets to the nearest police station as soon as possible to prevent loss, theft or fraudsters from costing the genuine lottery winners their prizes.

You always learn something new.

[TEFLKrabi]

Spend wisely. I'm sure you're smarter than most of the posters here and will take care of your money.

[DrTuner]

It is common practice for lottery winners to present their winning tickets to the nearest police station as soon as possible to prevent loss, theft or fraudsters from costing the genuine lottery winners their prizes.

You always learn something new.

Just make sure you video the whole transaction at the police station as well. In a way it gets uploaded into a cloud service outside Thailand in real time.

[eisfeld]

Spend wisely. I'm sure you're smarter than most of the posters here and will take care of your money.

So smart as to seek publicity and publish their faces in the news, effectively putting a target sign on their back. Oh yea!

[freedom4life]

Such a shame to receive that much money for just purchasing a few pieces of paper while others would never see that much, working all their lives...tired of this world for so many reasons.

[freedom4life]

“I grabbed one without checking how many tickets were left with the same number. I buy lottery tickets often, but I don’t expect to win – I just wanted to help a friend out because I understand how hard it is to stand on your feet all day long and walking from place to place try to make a living,” she said.

“I never thought I would win a jackpot and I have no plans just yet of what I want to do with the money, but for now I just want to make merit at temples first,” Ms Phuongphen said.

You can start by giving a third of it to the friend that you wanted to help out...cause you know, you understand how hard it is to stand on your feet all day long and walking from place to place trying to make a living...

[grumpyoldman]

Flash back 6-7 years ago, either Da Nang or #9 restaurant side by side Thai places across from C&N 200 yr rd., noodle soup consumption when on the TV the guy reads out the numbers and a lady starts jumping around and crying, all the ladies start yelling and crying, 2 million thb for one of the staff ladies.

Buy me a 50thb soup aye?

[Suradit69]

Spend wisely. I'm sure you're smarter than most of the posters here and will take care of your money.

Well said. Because rather a lot of farang seem to have difficulty handling their money in Thailand, they seem to think everyone else is equally foolish.

[Khunpan]

Do you really think they read TV to see all your words of wisdom ?

[MyFriend You]

Spend wisely. I'm sure you're smarter than most of the posters here and will take care of your money.

So smart as to seek publicity and publish their faces in the news, effectively putting a target sign on their back. Oh yea!

removed, answered wrong post

Edited February 18, 2016 by TunnelRat69

[bangon04]

"It is common practice for lottery winners to present their winning tickets to the nearest police station as soon as possible to prevent loss, theft or fraudsters from costing the genuine lottery winners their prizes."

Yes a Thai police station must be the perfect place to avoid all that potential trouble.....

[NamKangMan]

Just goes to show, dreams can come true on Bangla Road.