Reason #5,110 to hate lottery winners

[Ed Anger]

My retreat will most likely be somewhere between southern Kentucky and northern Florida.  Potential states include KY, TN, GA, AL, NC, SC, FL.

Aren't you forgetting somebody?

Three cheers for Old Virginia, boys! Our silken banner wave on high! For Cal's Southern home we 'll fight and die! Hurrah ! hurrah ! hurrah !

Va is a little too dark nowadays. IfyaknowwhatImean.

Did you read the list of acceptable states? 

I don't read threads. That gets in the way.

[Admiral Yi]

Way to fag up the quotes Seedy.

[CountDeMoney]

Way to fag up the quotes Seedy.

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[garbon]

When I was poor, I bought all of my family members several scratch offs one Christmas.

My mother started doing that years ago for various holidays.    It's a hoot, watching everybody working scratch-offs at the Christmas or Easter dinner table.  Baby Jesus wants me to match three bananas and win $40.

I liked the vending meachines as I didn't have to face anyone and ask to buy scratch offs.

So humiliating, isn't it.

No, because it was a vending machine.

[Phillip V]

Discovered that gas station on the way to work is the only near place that serves dark roast coffee. Bought two Powerball tickets for fun.

[lustindarkness]

BTW, why do I hear that as soon as I win my $600Mil tonight I need a lawyer? I see the use for an investment pro and an accountant, but why a lawyer? Cant I just go and pick up my money and have it deposited in my account? What will a lawyer do for me?

[DGuller]

BTW, why do I hear that as soon as I win my $600Mil tonight I need a lawyer? I see the use for an investment pro and an accountant, but why a lawyer? Cant I just go and pick up my money and have it deposited in my account? What will a lawyer do for me?

He will lighten the load for you.  Those briefcases full of cash are surprisingly heavy.

[Tonitrus]

BTW, why do I hear that as soon as I win my $600Mil tonight I need a lawyer? I see the use for an investment pro and an accountant, but why a lawyer? Cant I just go and pick up my money and have it deposited in my account? What will a lawyer do for me?

I remember back in Washington, some guy had one the lottery (just a fairly respectable amount in the state lotto), and instead of picking up the winnings himself, hired a lawyer to represent him and collect the prize...thus remaining safely anonymous (at least, from the lazy, unwashed masses).

Particular state laws/Powerball rules may prevent a similar tactic, however.

[katmai]

Only one ticket bought in Florida was winner.

[CountDeMoney]

That's fucked up.  Hopefully it's won by somebody worthy of it.  Like this guy last week.

Maybe you've heard this story before. Or dreamed it.

A man cleans out old lottery tickets from a cookie jar, and instead of throwing them away takes them to the 7-Eleven to check them out. And finds one of them is worth millions.

It gets better for Ricardo Cerezo of Geneva. He says his family was facing eviction, and he'll use part of the winnings — $4.85 million — to pay off the home.

"It couldn't have happened at a better time," said Cerezo, a management consultant. "I just thought, this is how God works."

Cerezo said his wife was cleaning out the kitchen and mentioned the lottery tickets that had accumulated over the past month in a glass cookie jar.

"It was either take them, get them checked, or she was going to trash them that night," he said.

Cerezo said he took the tickets to a 7-Eleven in Aurora and scanned them. The first eight or nine tickets weren't winners, he said.

"The following one was $3, so I was excited. I get to pay for my Pepsi. And then the last one said file a claim," he said, which meant it was worth at least $600.

Cerezo went online and found that the numbers matched the Feb. 2 Lotto drawing.

"As each number kept matching, the smile kept going higher and higher. And when I realized we had all six numbers, it was that shocking moment of , 'Whoa, can this really be?'" he said at a news conference Wednesday. "Fast forward to the next day, Monday: Called in sick from work, went down into Chicago. It's one of those feelings where it's OK if they fire me."

After he waited about half an hour, Cerezo said, lottery officials brought him into a room and said his ticket was worth $4.85 million.

Just three months earlier, Cerezo appeared at a foreclosure hearing where a judge gave him a few more months to find a new home before they would be evicted.

"That was on Feb. 12, so we were sitting on $4 million at that time in this jar," he said. "We will have our home paid off."

Cerezo said February holds special significance for him and his family because his daughter Savannah was born in that month. She died from a sudden illness last year at 14.

[Tonitrus]

The town in FL they say the winning ticket was bought at, looks like a retiree trailer park mecca a ways outside of Tampa.

The heirs will probably be pleased. 

[Ed Anger]

I R SAD

[CountDeMoney]

I R SAD

You're sad?

[katmai]

I R SAD

So am I, no Languish party at Chateau Butt

[Caliga]

He wouldn't invite you people anyway.  He's the Howard Hughes of Languish.