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OT- 1 winning Mega Lotto ticket sold in Illinois

Nine out of twelve people who win the lottery end up filing for bankruptcy. I'm always reminded of the old Chinese curse "May you get what you wish for" whenever I read about someone winning the lottery.

I hope the people who won understand that there is no such thing as an infinite amount of money. I would suggest reading the "King of Torts" to see how easy it is to go through 100 million dollars.
 
Deadguy35 said:
Nine out of twelve people who win the lottery ....
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I had a personal acquaintance who was a lottery winner of over a million dollars...
It changed his life in ways that don't sound bad but they are...

-everyone you ever meet for years to come will know you as the millionaire who won the lottery - they will talk only about that, ask about what you did with the money, and drive you crazy telling you what you should do with it. Almost everyone you are friends with you will still suspect of hanging on for the $$.

-family and friends will assume you have way more than you will ever need, and as anyone already knows - who has a GOOD job and GOOD income but who also has in-laws who waste their money or get fired - then you will either have to distance yourself from your own family or forever be deluged with them begging and driving you crazy asking for "loans" that of course they will never pay back.
Almost all lottery winners, if they are married, end up getting a divorce or splitting up and suing over what's left.
There's an old adage - the fastest way to lose a friend - loan them money.

-the temptation to spend it will be too much and you will and if you weren't happy before you had the million then spending it, oddly, will also not make you happy - so you spend more, and more, 'til, like Deadguy said, it's mostly gone and you have little to show for it except a big advance in your coronary disease, and diabetes from all the rich diet and excesses.

-In the end - my friend had a couple bad heart attacks before he was 65 and died way too young and was actually never quite happy like he thought he'd be.
 
Beninator said:
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My fellow Bradleyfans, I have some breaking news that I will announce here. As you can see, I was in the Red Bud, IL area this week. The past few hours have been overwhelming, but for obvious reasons, I can not announce much more until later.
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Hey Bennie, ya got $25-50K you could loan me? Got an inside tip on a sure thing! :lol: :lol:
 
FlyingSpaghettiMonster said:
Because of the following:

"73.9% of all statistics are made up" -Abraham Lincoln

It's 9/12 because they don't have a source.

http://badmoneyadvice.com/2009/11/why-lotteries-are-bad-the-third-reason.html

It might be closer to 1/3, but I found the same source that the article uses.
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You're absolutely correct.

The 75% statistic was taken from David Baldacci's "The Winner", which is a work of fiction about someone fixing the lottery. In the book, a reporter discovers that the protagonist of the book is the 12th lottery winner in a row to not only avoid bankruptcy, but prosper financially from it. The reporter determines that this is impossible since nine of them should have filed for bankruptcy, which is how the story unravels. This statistic is either dated (the book was written in 1996) or (more than likely) was just made up for the purposes of the story.

A simple Google search seems to indicate that the true number is probably closer to 1/3rd, like you stated.
 
I actually have the winning ticket purchased in MD!

I was passing through and took a flier by purchasing one there.

Trouble is, when I returned home, I hid it in the Superstition Mountains under a saguaro and now I can't remember where I hid it!

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Yeah, that's the ticket!

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Honestly!
 
Az, next time I play golf in Gold Canyon I'll hike up there and see if I can find it for you. 50-50 split ok?
 
I was just out there last week, and I think I must have found it. I was climbing in the hills near Tortilla Flats and came upon a dusty lotto ticket at the base of this big old saguaro. Does this look like the place you stashed it, AZ?

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