how to lose by winning the lottery

I know what you might be thinking.....

Here he comes with another one of his "money is the root of all evil" posts....

...... well, I prefer to think of it as a "money ain't the solutlion for all your problems" post.

So there. :-P



How many times have you heard somebody say....

"Oh, if only I could win the lottery, all my troubles would be solved.... "

Naaaahh.... chances are, your problems would just be starting.....



Just ask Jeffrey Damper .... who won $20,000,000 ( 20 million) dollars
in the Illinois Lottery.

Oh wait,
......... you can't ask him.

 His sister in law murdered him in 2005 for his winnings.

 Talk about a life-changing event, boy.... that's a life stopper.






 Don't bother looking up Billy Bob Harrell,
.... $31 Million dollar winner of the Texas Lottery, either.......

Sure, he won ........
promptly after which,
he
lost his friends,
lost his wife,
lost his will to live,
lost his mind,
and finally committed suicide.

 So..... did we say he WON?  Won what??





 

 Okay.... well, let's try Willie Hurt of Michigan...
he won over 3 million dollars,
and he's still alive -- 

-- and so is his crack habit.

The three million?

Up in smoke.  Well, in a manner of speaking, anyway.

Or this guy from West Virginia.....

Jack Whittaker.....

who won $315 million,

.....  but cant seem to stay outta court or trouble either.

And you might think that winning a whole mess of money would mean that you'd never feel the need to gamble............

( I mean, really... how much do you think you're gonna win -- if you already got 5 Million !!)

Wrong, again.

Evelyn Adams of New Jersey is living proof...

...... she won the lottery not once, but twice......

she cashed in for over five million ---- and then blew it in a coupla Atlantic City casinos.

At last word, she was on public assistance and living in a trailer park.

I guess you'd figure a win in the lottery would signal a change in your bad luck, at least?

That's the way Carl Atwood of Indiana figured it.

He had never had much luck.... until January 22, 2004, that is.

On that day, he had just won $73,000 on a Indiana Lottery TV Game--

and was walking back to the convenience store where he had bought the ticket-----
--- when he got run over by a truck and killed.

Well, at least you could look forward to some FAME with your fortune.........

Barry Shell won over 3 million in the Ontario ( Canada ) Lottery .....

..... he had his picture taken receiving the check -

and then again later that day, at the police station ,

.... for a mugshot....

It seems Barry had been hiding from the cops,

( on charges of theft and stolen property charges)

who were then tipped off where he was when he won the jackpot.






Even when you don't win, you could lose. ( wait.... huh?)

Tim O'Brien was so despondent about his British National Lottery winning numbers expiring right before they actually came in, that he did himself in.....

........ without ever finding out that the jackpot he had missed out on was only about a hundred bucks.






And if you don't win, and do lose......
( this is getting complicated.... )

I guess you could always sue....

A woman in British Columbia is suing the province's lottery for "failing to help her curb her gambling addiction".

Joyce May Ross says she lost over $300,000 over the last 3 years...

...... and says she wants it all back, and damages too.


uh huh.