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today dont forget to buy toto $3 MILLION
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Please may some of you sammyboys strike big and donate some to free food for the poor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BygOYrP722Y
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Buy bit bit lah....if "Chai Sen" comes to yr door..u noe buy u rugi
Lottery winners' good luck can go bad fast
By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY
Eight workers at a Nebraska meatpacking plant who won the $365 million Powerball jackpot last week may want to take heed of the downside of such good fortune.
Not that anyone would turn down such a windfall, but other heavenly jackpots did not lead to paradise. Some big winners have filed for bankruptcy within a few years, been attacked by family members and been besieged by requests from people they didn't know.
Steve Granger, 53, of Henderson, N.C., won $900,000 in the West Virginia Lottery in September. He received about $600,000 after taxes and put most of it away for his and his wife's retirement. But he says there have been unpleasant moments.
"All of a sudden everybody knows your business, everybody knows what you have," Granger says.
At a party recently, Granger heard someone say in an ugly tone, "There go those lottery people," as he and his wife passed by. A man he hardly knew asked him to invest in a gold mine. "I went through a phase where everybody was grabbing me thinking I was going to give them luck," he says.
Within days of winning a $41 million share of a Powerball jackpot in 2001, Patricia and Erwin Wales of Buxton, Maine, were sued by co-workers who claimed to be co-winners. The lawsuit was dropped, but lawyer Terrance Garney said a new beginning for the clerk and the lawn-maintenance man was "not an easy transition." The Waleses were beset with requests by friends they didn't know they had and by investment companies who wanted to handle their money.
They hired a team of lawyers to help them, and set aside $5 million for a non-profit charitable foundation that contributed $263,000 in 2005 to community and religious causes in and near Buxton.
Others have had difficulty with easy money:
• William "Bud" Post, who won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery in 1988, had a brother who tried to have him killed for the inheritance. Post lost and spent all his winnings. He was living off Social Security when he died in January.
• Two years after winning a $31 million Texas Lottery in 1997, Billie Bob Harrell Jr. committed suicide. He had bought cars, real estate, gave money to his family, church and friends. After his death it was not clear whether there was money left for estate taxes.
• Victoria Zell, who shared an $11 million Powerball jackpot with her husband in 2001, is serving time in a Minnesota prison, her money gone. Zell was convicted in March 2005 in a drug- and alcohol-induced collision that killed one person and paralyzed another.
• Evelyn Adams, who won the New Jersey Lottery twice, in 1985 and 1986, for a total $5.4 million, gambled and gave away all of her money. She was poor by 2001, and living in a trailer.
Gerry Beyer, who teaches estate law at Texas Tech University, has written about people who come into sudden wealth — such as lottery winners, sports figures, actors and actresses — and how they end up losing it. Many don't realize that if they spend their money, rather than investing and living off the earnings, "there's nothing to replace it," Beyer says.
Under an investment plan, the Nebraska Powerball winners' $15.5 million, after accepting the lump sum and paying taxes, could produce a yearly income of about $500,000 a year.
Contributing: Bill Welch and USA TODAY research
I live long enuff 2 realise... 4 me.... Dun buy = Strike leow... :(
say, evry draw u dun buy 1 set ...
wa! ... lidat ... u every draw win 50¢ ... :p
I think most ppl will feel that whatever problems that come later is secondary and will only affect one if and when one is lucky enough to strike the BIG ONE against the odds ...
why people always think they can win once they buy?
no wonder SGP Pools are making so much money..lol..
say, evry draw u dun buy 1 set ...
wa! ... lidat ... u every draw win 50¢ ... :p
Where got buy 50 cents 1 har... Every CNY draw oso throw in $10... In the end... Chenhu strike every yr frm me...:(
can! sales closes at 6pm!
wish every bro: HUAT AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All you suckers will just be sharing the second prize. The first prize confirmed to belong to your humbly watashi. :p
We are in a different world, mate.What good is $3 million?
Lotto is $30 million this week!
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