Some people believe that winning a lottery game is an answered prayer to all their problems while those who have won the lottery had wished they never did. These stories below are admonitory stories to everyone who thinks winning the lottery is an escape from poverty. Please read to the end and get enlightened from the mistakes of others.
Curtis Sharp, Jr. became famous because of his lottery win. He won a $5,000,000 jackpot in 1982. To the lottery department, it was a dream come true. Curtis Sharp Jr was a dishwasher before he won big. After was, he was referred to as the "Five Million Dollar Man". He lived in luxury and enjoyed his wealth in clubhouses and luxurious places.
Unfortunately to him, he spent more than his money could afford and his extravagant lifestyle destroyed him. A year after he won this money, he abandoned his wife for another and had a huge wedding. But after five years, his second wife divorced him. He became a drunk and drank on the street out of depression. When he ran out of money, he went back to his first wife for some money to survive. He also went back to buy another lottery ticket.
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Unlike many who won the Big, Andrew Jack Whittaker was already a wealthy man before he won the bigger jackpot award of his life. He won with a single Powerball ticket on the 25th of December 2002. In the long run, Jack Whittaker discovered that the lottery game he won has drastically transformed his financial status more than what his wealth could fetch him. He invested his money very well in his company and also in humanity. He was far from poverty.
But he had a bad habit of leaving a large amount of money in his car and a lot of people knew about it. One evening, someone stole almost half a million dollars from his car, and another time he lost $100,000 from the same car. This incident crippled his company and he became broke again.
When Willie Seeley and his 15 co-workers formed a lottery pool that gave them a BIG win in August 2013, it was like a dream come through. Oceans 16; the name of their lottery pool, purchased a ticket that was one of three to win a $450 million Power jackpot.
Along the line, they were in shock as they realized that splitting the three winning tickets was a bad idea and even if they split the remaining money among themselves, only $4,000,000 will be left after paying their taxes.
Willie Seeley and his wife moaned over the lottery curse. He said, "There are days I wish we were back to just getting paid every two weeks. You have to change your whole way of life, but we didn’t want to change the way we lived."
William Post was stupid enough to pawn his few possessions for $40. His foolish led him into a millionaire as he played several lottery tickets with the $40 and one of the tickets from the Pennsylvania lottery won him $16.2 million. After cashing out this money, his life became worse than it was.
He said, “Everybody dreams of winning money, but nobody realizes the nightmares that come out of the woodwork or the problems”.
He killed his dream by post spending wildly. He spent his first yearly installment winnings, which was over $400,000, in two weeks. After one year, he was indebted with about half a million dollars. He could not pay all and was arrested for attempted murder after he shot a gun at a man to who he was indebted. Thirteen years later, he died penniless and alone.
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After Abraham Shakespeare had won $40 million from the Florida lottery in 2006, he became so generous with his money. He gave out money to people around him but his act of kindness did not remind him of the lottery curse. His problems begun when his coworker took him to court. His coworker accused him of stealing his tickets and his jackpot. He won the case but his problems didn't end there.
When he met Dee Moore, she optioned to write about his betting experience and she promised to manage his finance. When he accepted, she spent all his money on luxuries. To seal it up, she killed him and buried him in her boyfriend's house.
Of course all the stories mentioned below are bizarre cases. It can be completely different for you and you can join the ranks of the lucky lotto winners!
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