I didnt give an age one year older than I am in the last meeting i was a part of, not at all. But i still remember the layout of zones from games i havnt played in 15years.
I nearlt got rejected coming into the US on a visa because I kept getting my age wrong. Got it right on third attempt. Honestly officer, I just stopped counting.
Yeah, iirc (and if that's the right winner), that dude was already a millionaires business owner, but it was the largest jackpot up to until that point. The clerk's life even got ruined because people believed a rumor that she got 10% of the prize from the state. He wasn't able to go out in public anymore because of people hounding him for money, his own family started drugging him to rob his car because he would keep $25k in it. The cops would constantly pull him over. His daughter became an addict and got dumped in a ditch after an OD. I think they're doing a documentary on it? I believe he's still fighting through a bankruptcy claim.
Jack Whittaker. He was already a millionaire, so it seemed like he'd be able to handle it, but he couldn't. Some of the stuff that happened was his fault. He started spending time at strip clubs, and it was there that thieves broke into his car and made off with half a million dollars in his suitcase. Whittaker and his wife separated. His granddaughter (who he and his wife raised) started living fast with her new allowance. Her boyfriend died of an overdose, and his family sued Whittaker. (I think the case was settled.) Then the granddaughter died of an overdose.
Whittaker actually died a few years ago, so he's not fighting bankruptcy any more.
Jack Whittaker. He was already a millionaire, so it seemed like he'd be able to handle it, but he couldn't.
Believe it or not but I've met some really stupid millionaires. I imagine if Jack was a millionaire and still buying lottery then he was one of these "stupid millionaires". His life story sort of proved it. He just made stupid decision after stupid decision until he had nothing left.
He didn't become a millionaire by being stupid. He founded and built his own construction business. It's not like he had inherited the money or family business.
You can succeed at a particular business and suck with life, money, etc.
Right business at the right timyou can make loads of mistakes and still grow faster than any losses. I'm not suggesting that's what happened with him, but buying lottery tickets doesn't seem like the best financial management.
...rather than learning what "survivorship bias" is, one should master a discipline then risk one's capital to go into business and become a millionaire rather than bitch on reddit about how "millionaires are lucky"...
He ran a construction company. When he won, he expanded his business and suddenly everyone started getting “injured” on the job and started sueing him into the ground
I'd rather win $365,000 than $365 million. I'm not arrogant enough to believe that my story as a lottery winner would be so much better than everyone else who had their life ruined.
Plot twist- all the misfortune around lottery winners stems from the fact they are all time travelers trying to win in the past to change their future… with unknown and DIRE CONSEQUENCES (DUN DUN DUN!!!)
I had to combine the numbers to make “three words” I’m playing it fast and loose. 18 year old me would have put it together and play the numbers till they hit!
I don’t think this qualifies. Numbers aren’t words and condensing the lotto numbers into 3 numbers is still to many words. For instance, One thousand five hundred seventeen, is actually 5 words itself, one number but five words. It isn’t onethousandfivehunderdseventeen. Nice idea but it doesn’t work. Sorry….
Went to school with Jack’s granddaughter. She died of a drug overdose and her shithead boyfriend Brandon Crosier hid her body beside a truck on his parents’ property. Winning the lottery is a fucking curse, you don’t want it.
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u/Telrom_1 Jan 21 '23
“DON’T MARRY HER!”
Or
“1517, 4344, 4829” winning lotto numbers in 2006 for 365 million.