Just a garden variety meth-head who happened to stumble into $3,000,000.
No hookers and booze? He wasted it.
How much will it cost the taxpayers to warehouse this idiot for the rest of his life?
Hey, at least he was constructive and used the cash to start a small business....
This makes a point about how many people out there will always be poor no matter how much is given to them or what their minimum wage is.
But all that lottery money sure is helping the school children!
Music now gets to spend time facing the music.
And Then Winner IS,,,?
Breaking Stupid.
It only works in the movies.
With the money he earns in prison workshops, will he be allowed to try his luck and buy more lottery tickets?
Stupid is as stupid does.
There are a number of “lottery winner” houses around here. Won the lottery, started building a huge addition to their homes, blew it all in several months. Now you can pass by these houses — unpainted plywood sides, piles of gravel and stones in the back yard for 10-15 years, water runoff gouging out the back yard.
Down payments on a couple of well located apartment buildings first, then lots of charity. The buildings will keep you fed for life and you’ll always have a place to move into if everything else goes south. And maybe a cruise...if they let me drive!
1.) Stock the bar with fine liquors. 2.) Buy a new truck. 3.)Solomon Islands for a month. 3.) Write a check to my 401K. - Done
After taxes, he would have slightly more than half his winnings, maybe half with state and fed tax combined.
There was a guy in Florida, a long time ago, who won big. He died 3 or 4 years later and all he had done was buy a used Chevy Malibu. Stayed in the same trailer, same neighborhood, same job.
He was supporting his local economy.
Meth dealers gotta eat too, ya know...
I worked with and was friends with a guy whose sister, who was in her mid-20’s at the time back in the early 80’s, bought a ticket on a whim and won a lottery jackpot of around 2 million dollars before taxes, when the lottery in Maryland was a relatively new thing.
She kept a very low profile, didn’t tell anyone about it including her family at first. She paid off all her debts which according to my friend was not a lot at the time (a student college loan and a small car loan), and purchased a very nice but modest house for herself for cash, but kept working her full time job which IIRC was in corporate accounting and wisely and prudently investing the rest.
25 years later she was able to retire and live very well on the investment income alone, not touching the remaining principal. She also paid off her parent’s house but not right away. Instead of going on a spending and gifting spree right off the bat, she invested well and conservatively and lived conservatively and frugally and waited for the investments to pay off.
Many lottery winners however do not have that sort of discipline and common sense.
I saw a program on one of the cable channels several years back called “The Curse of the Lottery.” They profiled several people who won large sums of money whose life then went rapidly downhill. Some ended up in prison, others died. There was no “curse.” These people were totally irresponsible individuals before winning the money - drug users, etc. Winning the money didn’t suddenly transform them into responsible people, it just allowed them to accelerate the downward slide they were already on.