So you want to win the lottery?

.RYAN66

.RYAN66

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I find this pretty interesting.

winning the Big One isn't a guaranteed ticket to the good life, as these previous winners can attest:

-Jack Whittaker: This West Virginia businessman won $315 million in the Powerball lottery in 2002, the largest jackpot ever from a single ticket in American history at the time. After being robbed of $545,000 in cash while at a strip club, Whittaker's granddaughter and daughter were later found dead, and Whittaker was sued by Caesars Atlantic City casino for bouncing $1.5 million worth of checks to cover gambling losses.

-Juan Rodriguez: This New York City parking attendant was earning less than $30,000 in 2004 when he won $149 million in a Mega Millions drawing. But soon after taking the lump sum option of $88 million, his wife filed for divorce and was awarded half of his winnings.

-Fred Topous, Jr.: Topous won $57 million, the seventh-largest jackpot in Michigan state history in June 2008, but eventually took a $33 million lump sum. The convicted sex offender, who was released from prison in 2006, needs to register as a sex offender until 2024.

-Billy Bob Harrell, Jr.: This preacher working as a stockboy at Home Depot struck it rich in 1997, winning $31 million in Texas' lottery. Some 20 months later, after divorcing his wife and buying a half-dozen homes for relatives, he committed suicide using a shotgun.

-Jeffrey Dampier: In 1996, Dampier and his wife won $20 million in Illinois' lottery and used the money to buy relatives homes and to start a gourmet popcorn shop in Florida. Nine years later, Dampier was kidnapped and killed by his sister-in-law and her boyfriend who targeted him for money.

 
I've seen the program and read the wikipedia article. All lotto winners are fucked, I don't think I have ever heard of it turning out good.

I'm still playing two tickets, I'll break the streak!
 
if you win ill take the money. i dont want you getting fucked like these guys. no worries
 
I wouldn't take the cash option and would just take it long term over life.

I'd start by paying off the entirety of my debts and then putting the rest into a high interest savings account until the monthly interest is enough to live on.

That way I don't have any absurd amount of cash on hand and don't spend it like the rest of the idiots.

As money became excess, I'd start investing it into small businesses and start a family savings fund for future generations.

I wouldn't live all that much better than I do now, except I'd probably spend a lot more traveling. I'd also probably buy some really expensive shoes and convert a 72 Scout into electric with the tesla kit. That's about it.

Dreaming big. Oh the Louboutin's I would buy...
 
I never buy lotto tickets, but I always spend classes imagining what I would do if I did win a lottery, usually focusing on the first night. I would start by calling my dad and telling him that I need a 75k loan that I would repay him back with a million a few weeks later. I would get all of my friends to a bar with a VIP room to break the law inside of, with bouncers with walkie talkies to tell me if the cops come. During this time I would book a flight, and by that I literally mean that I would be booking the whole flight for the day I collected my winnings to go to amsterdam or sydney or vegas or new york or something awesome. Probably end up in jail within 2 years, but whatever.
 
bingo, there are way more successful and still living lotto winners.

i think if i would win i would just go by a place in the mountain and live a simple quiet life skiing every day.
 
bingo, there are way more successful and still living lotto winners.

i think if i would win i would just go by a place in the mountain and live a simple quiet life skiing every day.
 
the lessons i've learned in this thread are:-don't get married because bitches be stealin yo money

-move far away from people who know you because bitches be stealin yo money

-don't fuck children

-and last but not least, always, always, always....

carry lots of fucking guns, because.....

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bitches be stealin yo money
 
my list would look something like yours, except here in ohio first thing I would do is call a lawyer and start a trust...anonymity for days
 
this. by doing this you can have some control on the anonymity factor by limiting that amount you make. it is also a smart because you always have a backup plan.

not to mention the investments. oh god. the money that you can earn from owning large sums of cash......
 
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i'm sorry. that's offensive. but its relevant to your post, "bitches" as in haters of my newfound cash money (in this strange hypothetical situation we're entertaining)
 
none of that would happen to a normal person though, those are all cases of what happens when you give psycho people millions of dollars.
 
im taking my 285,000,000 lump sum after tax, buying myself a house, and a couple sick cars, put 10 mill in the bank. Then work live a normal life until im 40, retire early and ball out with all the invested money. Prob makin like 40 mill a year on interest alone
 
how come everytime someone plays the lottery-- someone comes along and says "you know studies show you wont be any happier if you win"....or "studies show that you'll blow all the money within 5 years"...

I mean for crying out loud-- the odds of winning are smaller than getting hit by lightning and someone's gotta come along and shit on your tiny little ray of hope...

As if the joy and excitement you have of having a 1 in 176 million shot at something is still more than you deserve.
 
I bought ten tickets. 5 at one gas station on my way to the dunes today and then 5 across the street at the other gas station. Also I bet powerball is wondering why their jackpot isn't "huge".
 
don't you EVER do that to a Scout, that's sinful.
the Louboutin's, however, i like that idea.

but seriously, most people who lose all of their lottery winnings aren't prepared for the responsibility that having large amounts of money creates. keeping up with taxes, finding out you have new "relatives", being able to buy nearly everything you see. it gets overwhelming.
 
This. And since my island would be in international waters, I would also create my own country and build a fortress. Then I would hire my own private army and start taking the world down piece by piece.

No but in all seriousness I would put myself and brother through college, pay off both my parents houses and debts, give some to charity, and put the rest in the bank for the future. Of course I would indulge a little but nothing excess.
 
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