A Callicoon shopkeeper has won a million dollars in the lottery, the second time in a month that someone from the Catskills has been handed a big lotto check.
In February, a Cairo man claimed a $122 million winning Powerball ticket. Now, according to a press release from the New York Lottery, the owner of the Kountry Korner convenience store in Callicoon has a winning ticket.
The Times Herald-Record has more, including the tantalizing detail that the store owner bought the ticket after she misprinted it for a customer:
The jackpot made [Charanjit] Kaur the first million-dollar winner for the month-old Megaplier game and the sixth Sullivan County lottery player to win a $1 million-plus prize.
She printed what she thought was a $5 random ticket for a customer, but instead pushed the Megaplier button, boosting the ticket's cost to $10 and the potential winnings from $250,000 to $1 million.
Kaur, who says she never buys lottery tickets or scratch-off games, paid for the ticket herself when the man asked for another ticket instead.
"I make a mistake, and I decided, 'OK, I'll keep it,'" said Kaur, who has not seen the man since.
