NEWS: Winning The Lottery Sucks

CULTURE: Winning The Lottery Sucks

In the latest calamity that has befallen Jack Whittaker since he won a $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas Day of 2002, his granddaughter, Brandi Bragg, was found dead near her boyfriend's home. Despite the fact that the body was wrapped in plastic, there are no signs of violence, and police have not yet ruled the case a homicide.

Since he won the lottery, Whittaker has been arrested several times for DUI; he has been ordered into rehab after his second DUI conviction of the year. He has been sued twice for assaulting women at a racetrack, and has suffered multiple break-ins of his home, car, and business, including one robbery of his car outside a titty-bar that took almost $600,000 in cash from his car. Additionally, a friend of his granddaughter was found dead at his house in September.

I'd say that this is proof of how money doesn't solve your problems (or, to use P. Diddy's immortal phrase, "The more money we come across, the more problems we see"), but I feel fairly confident saying that I'd probably have done a better job with the money than he has. I certainly wouldn't leave a half-mill in my car parked outside a tit bar.

The butler did it.

If you don't know how to live, a few hundred million dollars isn't going to change that.

with the candlestick in the parlor.

Nope, it would just magnify the scale of your fuck ups.

this headline should probably read:

"being a scumbag sucks."

"I certainly wouldn't leave a half-mill in my car parked outside a tit bar."

which begs the question, how much did he take IN to the titty-bar?!!!

I wonder if the guy who stole the money from his car used his windfall to totally turn his life around...

If he's still going to titty bars after winning a fortune, the man obviously has no imagination. He could be firing at palm trees with a rocket launcher, for crying out loud.

Well they list his rap sheet from after winning the lottery...what I wanna know is what did he do BEFORE the lottery...

well heres something to think about. you have to be stupid to play the lottery...so a stupid person will win said lottery.
why do you have to be stupid to play the lottery? becuz you throw a ton of money away for the chance to win a lot. how many people actually win a lot? not many...and it's probably someone stupider than you.
you may think i don't know what im talking about but being cashier i know the stupid people that come in every day and play 53 dollars worth of lottery.
yes i know your life sux and you want to win to make it better...but as this story shows...it just ain't gonna fucking happen.

ps. don't get mad at me if you play the lottery and i just called you stupid. i also just called my father and grandfather and boss stupid.

$30 slots in vegas is where you can make it big

he put $600,000 in his car and left it outside a strip club? man. i'm sorry his daughter died, but what a fucking moron.

If you save $53 dollars a day for 365 days, you'd have almost $20,000. Two years of that kind of savings and you could pay your rent just with the interest.

Keith - not exactly -

Interest rates are about 0.75% on a savings account, and up to about 3% for a long term CD. If you have about $300,000 in the bank, the interest at .75% works out to about 200 bucks/month before taxes. At 3% it goes to about 800/mo before taxes.

If you can get a 7 percent return on your money, then you're talking 1800/month before taxes and you're doing OK.

The interest on $40K isn't going to cover your rent though...

You know what they say..you can take
the hillbilly out of the trailer park but..

Damn. What I can say? I was an English major.

a likely story.

Amen to that.

I'd like for them to give me $315 million dollars so I could counter that example.

A body.
Dead.
Wrapped in plastic.

(J) I've played the lottery a total of about 6 times, each only a dollar or two. The first time I played, I got 4 out of 6 numbers. The 2 numbers I missed were 23 and 48, of which I had 25 and 40. I would have won 7million, before taxes. I ended up winning $89, so I’ve turned a profit in my experiences with the lottery

see, shes right! You're stupid...always bet on 23 and 48. Everyone knows that.

is that guy ever gonna catch a break hahaha

they only give money to people that can't fucking handle it

I remember hearing that the police recovered his money behind the dumpster at the club he was hanging out in.