Store Clerk Wins $258.5 Million...

[The Patriot]

Originally Posted by revefsreleets

The money always winds up with the people least equipped to understand just how much money this actually is...

After he spends the first $300,000 I think he'll begin to get an idea.

[Pittsky]

Originally Posted by WH

Ummmm....yeah they do. They probably play it more than non-rich people.

Funny that mr. Shaw has 28 dollars in his bank account, bills that need desperatly paid, and three kids to feed and he spends 5 dollars on a lottery ticket.

haha...true...i didn't think of that...hey f it. it paid off

[Pittsky]

Originally Posted by The Patriot

After he spends the first $300,000 I think he'll begin to get an idea.

he'll spend that.....look at his account again...realize it didnt move....and be like "oh shit"

[SteelerEmpire]

Originally Posted by revefsreleets

Actually, I stand corrected. Money isn't quite the factor that education is. The more educated a person is, the more likely they are NOT to play the lottery. High School drop-outs plays at an exponentially higher rate than PhD's.

I looked it up on the "internets". College Educated people essentially learn not to play.

lol... Yea. I don't think that guy spent too much time in college... lol... What did he say ? "He plans to seek advice from people who know about money " ... lol....But man, its one hell of an opportunity to spend $1 or $5 with the possibility to get $258 + Mil in return... You'll never find that ratio in stocks or the business world... its ridiculous.

[revefsreleets]

I read somewhere at a relatively early age that the odds of winning the lottery are only slightly higher than FINDING a winning lottery ticket laying on the ground.

That was about all I needed to know. I occasionally toss a buck or two into the community lottery pot at work when the jackpot is huge, though...what can it hurt?

[TheWarDen86]

Originally Posted by revefsreleets

Rich people don't play the lottery. But why can't it be some guy who's NOT an inbred hillbilly for a change? Most of this money is going to end up wasted in Branson, Missouri and probably in the pockets of some televangelist, or, worse yet, the President of Nigeria....

A couple rich folks won it a few years ago (wall street type) and it pissed me off. Happened like twice within as many years.

Our plant manager missed the FL lotto by the LAST number! Talk about a kick in the nutts.

[Godfather]

Originally Posted by revefsreleets

I read somewhere at a relatively early age that the odds of winning the lottery are only slightly higher than FINDING a winning lottery ticket laying on the ground.

That was about all I needed to know. I occasionally toss a buck or two into the community lottery pot at work when the jackpot is huge, though...what can it hurt?

I'm the same way. If it's a really huge jackpot it gets my attention and I might be willing to waste a buck or two that I would have spent on a candy bar or bag of chips. Hell, someone wins sooner or later and you might as well take a shot.

But I don't play on a regular basis.

[SteelerEmpire]

Originally Posted by TheWarDen86

A couple rich folks won it a few years ago (wall street type) and it pissed me off. Happened like twice within as many years.

It was a relative of a friend of mine that was a wall streeter and won it a few years ago... he might have been one of those guys...

[TheWarDen86]

Originally Posted by SteelerEmpire

It was a relative of a friend of mine that was a wall streeter and won it a few years ago... he might have been one of those guys...

Wow, really? Tell him I said "**** you."