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Winning The Lottery Sucks

Submitted by jake_lex

Edited by Christopher

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.

Bragg's body was found Monday behind a junked van several hundred feet from the home of Steve Crosier, whose son Brandon was Bragg's boyfriend, said Trooper S.E. Wolfe.

A preliminary investigation indicated that Bragg may have died in the Crosiers' house and her body was later moved.

Wolfe said Monday's discovery was based on interviews with Brandon Crosier and others. "We are focused on him but I wouldn't call him a suspect yet," he said.

Steve Crosier, in a brief conversation with reporters outside his house, said: "All I know is she OD'd and Brandon freaked out."


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.

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Drek77

Drek77

Harwinton, CT
March 2003

DEC 21, 2004 10:08 PM

The butler did it.

MisterGraves

MisterGraves

Portland, OR
November 2003

DEC 21, 2004 10:11 PM

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

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

DEC 21, 2004 10:12 PM

Drek77 said:
The butler did it.



with the candlestick in the parlor.

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

DEC 21, 2004 10:12 PM

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



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

boundcreature

boundcreature

Boston, MA
April 2004

DEC 21, 2004 10:13 PM

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?!!!

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

DEC 21, 2004 10:23 PM

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

robosagogo

robosagogo

State College, PA
September 2004

DEC 21, 2004 10:24 PM

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.

_MrE_

_MrE_

Santa Cruz, CA
July 2004

DEC 21, 2004 10:29 PM

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

MistressMissy

mistressmissy

Grand Rapids, MI
March 2003

DEC 21, 2004 10:39 PM

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. biggrin

Testm0nkey

Testm0nkey

I'm lost
March 2004

DEC 21, 2004 10:41 PM

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

lostarchitect

lostarchitect

Brooklyn, NY
January 2004

DEC 21, 2004 10:43 PM

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.

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

DEC 21, 2004 10:46 PM

MistressMissy said:
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. biggrin



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.

Stiles

Stiles

Oakland, CA
November 2002

DEC 21, 2004 11:21 PM

Keith said:
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...

bpatrick

bpatrick

Tampa, FL
March 2004

DEC 21, 2004 11:23 PM

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

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

DEC 21, 2004 11:24 PM

Stiles said:

Keith said:
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...



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

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