Posted on 05/20/2007 6:15:46 AM PDT by Muzzle_em
NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Kristina Schneider tried to persuade a customer at the BP station where she works to buy the last ticket on a roll of the Magnificent Millions lottery game.
"I always joke that the last ticket is the winning one, but he said he only had enough money for three tickets," Schneider said.
This time, her advice was no joke.
The single mother -- with nine maxed-out credit cards and $8,500 in debt for her associate's degree -- bought what turned out to a $1 million winning ticket with a $10 bill she found in the store Friday.
"I thought someone was playing a trick on me" when she found
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The poor pursue simple pleasures, a bottle of beer, a pack of cigs, and a lottery ticket. Don’t think you would be doing them any favor taking them away. They would just be poorer.
I’m glad for her. Maybe this will give her a fresh start.
I don’t know if I am poor or not. My husband and I have worked hard all our lives, paid a lot of taxes over the years, paid for a home and all the trappings, raised our kids, etc. But we like our cigarettes and an occasional brew.
The sister of a former student of mine won $15 million in one of the California drawings about ten years ago. She was a normal, married, late twenty-something with no children.
According to her brother, after winning she left her husband, found a weight-lifter who used to beat her, got hooked on cocaine, was involved in a deadly car accident while high, and ended up in rehab and prison.
Some people can’t handle it.
Maybe, but it will be their decision to buy the tickets, not the governments. If you want to be up in arms about taxes, and I suggest we all should be, get upset about the taxes we are forced to pay at gunpoint,such as income tax, not the volunteer ones, such as lottery.
The myth that a large sum of money will turn the average person into some kind of idiot is just that, a myth started, no doubt, by the liberals who hate to see someone other than themselves get a few bucks.
It sounds like many people are in worse shape after they win than before...
See that, that's why I don't want to win millions of dollars. LOL! :O)
Love that tagline
I agree. I love stories like this. I don't play the lottery but I like to see just an average American hit the big time. :-)
You seem to be the only one so far who has gotten the point of the comment I made. There are VULTURES lurking to grab a slice of the pie every time someone wins one of these.
She WILL be preyed upon.
funny!!!
I remember that.
The details were slightly different, but you got the gist of the story.
I know someone who won 2 million.
He has a blind son and was very happy to have won the money to have for his son’s future. His EX-sister-in-law filed suit claiming that YEARS prior, the two of them had a conversation about what they would do if they ever won the lottery and had agreed to split the winnings 50/50. She apparently got another unscrupulous relative to claim to have witnessed the conversation. SHE WON HALF of his winnings!
There is the Pepsi story another person posted here.
I watched a show just this week about lottery winners and how others sue them for various BS claims, trying to get some easy money.
I’m HAPPY this single mom won, but I’m just saying she needs to get ready for the greedy vultures who will prey upon her. She should have said nothing about how the ticket ended up in her hands and tried to quietly fly below the radar and collect her prize.
I'll bet more times than not. Anectdotes of lottery windfalls destroying lives are plentiful. In most cases, the winner's immediate family was the cause of ruin. If I won a paltry $1 million, I really don't think I'd tell a soul --outside of my wife. I certainly wouldn't want my name in the papers!
Personally, I don't ever play lotto. I just believe that my life would become too complicated by winning that much money!
My guess is that the wisest thing this lady could do is take the payments. With 9 credit cards maxed out it is clear that fiscal responsibility is not one of her stronger attributes. If she took the lump sum, she'd probably wind up in even more debt than she is now.
How HORRIBLE! I didn’t know people did that, relatives.
A casual joke, MAYBE, and she took his money. grrrrr
I agree, if I ever won I would not scream it to the world. I think that is when the trouble starts...but I would have to play to win and I don’t play.
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