Reason #5,110 to hate lottery winners

[11B4V]

However you seemed pretty sure that he would go broke again, based on "His past history of going broke"

And I'll continue to stand by the idea that if you hear a story about a broke lottery winner - it isn't unreasonable to guess that he'll likely end up broke again.  However, as I then said, once seeing that he quit his job and spent all his money on his daughter who had a 2 year battle with illness - I revised my position.

A rather unedifying position it was.

[garbon]

There are two kinds of people who have an extremely difficult time getting over the notion that poor people must have done something wrong to end up there: people who have never been poor, and people who have been poor but managed to luck out of their bad situation, but mistake their luck for skill.

When in doubt we should assume that people who are having their homes foreclosed are just victims of society.

Also, how is this devolving into a discussion of all poor people? Obviously there are people who are born poor and the deck is stacked against them ever having money. That's different from a man who owned a home and then ceased to make payments.

[garbon]

However you seemed pretty sure that he would go broke again, based on "His past history of going broke"

And I'll continue to stand by the idea that if you hear a story about a broke lottery winner - it isn't unreasonable to guess that he'll likely end up broke again.  However, as I then said, once seeing that he quit his job and spent all his money on his daughter who had a 2 year battle with illness - I revised my position.

A rather unedifying position it was.

I don't know about that. I learned that there were more members of Seedy's Angst Brigade.

[11B4V]

However you seemed pretty sure that he would go broke again, based on "His past history of going broke"

And I'll continue to stand by the idea that if you hear a story about a broke lottery winner - it isn't unreasonable to guess that he'll likely end up broke again.  However, as I then said, once seeing that he quit his job and spent all his money on his daughter who had a 2 year battle with illness - I revised my position.

A rather unedifying position it was.

I don't know about that. I learned that there were more members of Seedy's Angst Brigade.

[fhdz]

When in doubt we should assume that people who are having their homes foreclosed are just victims of society.

I guess my position is that it seems a bit counterproductive to assume anything about it.

Also, how is this devolving into a discussion of all poor people? Obviously there are people who are born poor and the deck is stacked against them ever having money. That's different from a man who owned a home and then ceased to make payments.

Either could have run into circumstances beyond their control, though. I would think that after 2008 no one would be quite so quick to jump to conclusions, that's all.

[CountDeMoney]

JOHNNY! TIME TO RUB THE BUNIONS!

Fla. widow, 84, claims $590M Powerball jackpot

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — An 84-year-old Florida widow who bought her Powerball ticket after another customer let her get ahead in line came forward Wednesday to claim the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history: $590 million.

Gloria C. MacKenzie, a retiree from Maine and a mother of four who lives in a modest, tin-roof house in Zephyrhills, where the lone winning ticket in the May 18 drawing was sold, took her prize in a lump sum of just over $370 million. After federal taxes, she is getting about $278 million, lottery officials said.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130605/US-Powerball-Winner-Florida/

[Phillip V]

To the chagrin of her children, she will live another 20 years and then donate all the money to charity.

[CountDeMoney]

Or leave it all to the cat.

[derspiess]

However you seemed pretty sure that he would go broke again, based on "His past history of going broke"

And I'll continue to stand by the idea that if you hear a story about a broke lottery winner - it isn't unreasonable to guess that he'll likely end up broke again.  However, as I then said, once seeing that he quit his job and spent all his money on his daughter who had a 2 year battle with illness - I revised my position.

A rather unedifying position it was.

I don't know about that. I learned that there were more members of Seedy's Angst Brigade.

  No shit.

[garbon]

I guess my position is that it seems a bit counterproductive to assume anything about it.

Counterproductive to what?

Either could have run into circumstances beyond their control, though. I would think that after 2008 no one would be quite so quick to jump to conclusions, that's all.

Or could easily, as we've seen many times before, be people who live beyond their means.

[sbr]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/woman-powerball-winner-ahead-regrets/story?id=19336614#.UbENKfnrxrk

Woman Who Let Powerball Winner Go Ahead of Her Has No Regrets

When Gloria C. Mackenzie claimed her $590.5 million Powerball jackpot, she released a statement revealing that another woman "was kind enough" to allow her to cut in line when she purchased the winning ticket.

That woman, Mindy Crandell, 34, is not upset that her charitable gesture likely cost her an enormous fortune and says "things are meant to be for a reason."

Crandell, of Zephyrhills, Fla., was in line to purchase lottery tickets in Publix on May 18 while tending to one of her two daughters when Mackenzie, 84, stepped in front of her.

"My 10-year-old said, 'Mom, There's a lady in front of us.' I noticed that the lady was there. Didn't pay a lot of mind to it," Crandall said.

The lady at the counter stopped Mackenzie to allow Crandell to reclaim her spot in line. Crandell declined the offer and told Mackenzie "go ahead. " It was a move that could have potentially cost the Crandells the $590.5 million Powerball ticket. Mackenzie purchased one Quick Pick ticket and left the store.

Crandell said family and friends began teasing her that the lady she allowed to cut in line was going to win the mega jackpot. But Crandell thought there was no way the lady was going to be the winner.

"The joke was, that's the lady that's going to win it. I was like, 'Yeah right. No one is going to win from little Zephyrhills,'" Crandell said.

Later that night, Mackenzie matched all five numbers including the Powerball while Crandell was at home still being teased by family members that the lady in the line was probably the winner. It was a joke that she would endure for the next two weeks.

When Mackenzie claimed the money on Wednesday, Crandell's 10-year-old daughter, Mallory, immediately recognized her from Publix.

"My daughter was like, 'Mom, look at the lady,'" Crandell said. "Same day, same store. What's the chances of that happening?"

Mackenzie has not disclosed her plans for the money. In a statement to ABC News, William P. Brant, Mackenzie's attorney, denied requests for an interview and said the family wants to "maintain their privacy."

Mackenzie has opted for the lump sum cash payout of $370.8 million, before taxes, instead of 30 annual payments of $19 million, a lottery official said.

Crandell holds no ill-will toward Mackenzie and hopes the money "truly blesses her family." The one thing Crandell did gain from the incident was a lesson she hopes her daughters learned.

"It could have been us, but things happen. Sometimes it's better to be patient than right. I knew we were teaching our daughter the right thing," Crandell said.

ABC News' Geetika Rudra contributed to this report

[CountDeMoney]

Considering the sheer number of lotto tickets being generated across the nation at that particular moment in time, anything from reaching out for that pack of gum before getting the ticket printed to sneezing would've fucked up her positioning in the space-time continuum.

[11B4V]

I'd be funny as all fucked up hell if she sent her a thank you note. 

[Phillip V]

Yet another example of the old stealing from the young.

REPEAL MEDICARE

[MadBurgerMaker]

Considering the sheer number of lotto tickets being generated across the nation at that particular moment in time, anything from reaching out for that pack of gum before getting the ticket printed to sneezing would've fucked up her positioning in the space-time continuum.

The extra two minutes it took for the old lady to shuffle up to the counter and get the ticket "ordered" is what got her into that spot in the first place.   

I probably would have won instead.  I hate both of them.