[asgardshill]

Shortly before his death, Harrell confided to a financial adviser: "Winning the lottery is the worst thing that ever happened to me."

No, late Mr. Harrell, winning the lottery was NOT the worst thing that ever happened to you. Your own weakness in letting yourself be bankrupted by fake-o sob stories from every con artist and new "friend" that came down the pike was the worst thing that ever happened to you.

Idiot.

[roaddog727]

Darwin award contender

[Casloy]

Exactly, if you want to give your money away have enough sense to set up a foundation and have a board (your family) decide which request gets granted. The guy doesn't sound like he was playing with a full deck to start with. How is it you can barely make ends meet but you go out and buy lottery tickets?

[pctech]

No, late Mr. Harrell, winning the lottery was NOT the worst thing that ever happened to you. Your own weakness in letting yourself be bankrupted by fake-o sob stories from every con artist and new "friend" that came down the pike was the worst thing that ever happened to you.

Idiot

Man, you have no compassion whatsoever do you? If you can't discuss this thing rationally and with some pity, then don't discuss it at all. It's comments like that ("idiot") that give freepers a bad name in other forums.

Remind me never to call you if I need encouragement.

[Freebird Forever]

No, late Mr. Harrell, winning the lottery was NOT the worst thing that ever happened to you. Your own weakness in letting yourself be bankrupted by fake-o sob stories from every con artist and new "friend" that came down the pike was the worst thing that ever happened to you.

Exactly.

Unrestrained liberalism takes another victim.

[lt.america]

I remember listening to a talk radio about 10 years ago going through Ohio and a man called in and said his uncle had one the lottery 2 years before but donated every last cent to charity because he was tired of the same things this article describes.