[L.A.Justice]

He decided to take the lump sum of $3 million...$2.1 million after taxes...

I don't know if I could drive around for 4 hours...Buying lottery tickets...

[Cowboy Bob]

I think someone tipped him off to the general location of the last ticket.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

How many people got the same idea and spent their rent money on losing tickets?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Oompah loompah doopity doo.

[4Runner]

How much did it cost him to buy up all the remaining twenty dollar tickets? Aren’t there dozens of them at each location?

[Dixie Yooper]

The crooked insertion of The NC Education Lottery years ago, was custom made for just this type of story... Is the winner by any chance, related to a man by the name of Jim Black?

[albie]

He’ll be broke in a year

[Gay State Conservative]

I’ll bet everything I own that he’ll be in bankruptcy court within 18 months!

[LouAvul]

Insider info. Yeah, the lottery is legit. /sarc

[SamAdams76]

So the $5m prize is really only $2.1m after taxes.

Something wrong with that picture. Also, isn't the state double-dipping? The price of the ticket is essentially in itself a tax, albeit a voluntary one.

BTW, $2.1m is not as life-changing as you might think. Many people already have that amount in their 401(ks). Using the 4% rule, that's $84,000 a year in retirement. Not too shabby, especially if you have some other incomes to combine with it, but this is not exactly "country club rich." This guy is still going to need to watch his expenses and budget accordingly to make it last.

He would be wise to bank the money for now and find a very good financial advisor to help him invest it properly. He should set up a will and carefully spell out who the beneficiaries of his windfall will be should be. Also, he should change his cell number and address if possible to avoid all the people who are going to come out of the woodwork with their hands out.

[IamConservative]

Lottery commissions publish game statistics for scratch off games. This is not a new strategy. When a game has more dollars in prizes remaining than tickets to sell, it becomes an opportunity.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I want to know how he made it to 40 stores in four hours. Must drive fast.

[ro_dreaming]

He decided to take the lump sum of $3 million...$2.1 million after taxes...
I don’t know if I could drive around for 4 hours...Buying lottery tickets...

1 posted on 8/3/2020, 3:43:39 AM by L.A.Justice

For 40 minutes, and a $2,100,000 payoff? I’d do that once a day for month, and never drive anywhere again.