[trailhkr1]

McDonalds worker, 7 kids. She will be broke in 5 years or less and back on public assistance. Not gonna end well.

Typical lotto winners..never fails.

-Retired millionaire doctors/surgeons.

-Elderly people with one foot in the grave.

-The very poor.

-A large group of office/factory workers who will all end up suing each other for various reasons for years after the drawing.

[KarlInOhio]

Typical because those are the ones that make interesting stories. Dull stories involving people hiring a lawyer to claim the ticket and then investing in low risk tax free municipal bonds to live well but not extravagantly don't make the headlines.

If I had won I would have stuck the ticket in a bank's safe deposit box, hired a lawyer to prepare to collect it and a tax advisor to tell me whether I could sell my house and move to an income tax free state before signing the ticket to avoid losing an extra 7% to taxes. It would probably be at least a couple of months before I would be ready to claim it.