3/30 Mega Millions $640,000,000 vol. New Record

[Thats My Word]

Just bought 52 tickets!

 

[freakydestroyer]

Originally Posted by Kingtre

swarms of college kids at the lotto counter trying to figure out how to fill out the slips at this store i just went to 

Tell those N's to just ask for a quick pick to speed up the line.

 

[pharelfor3]

$640M. Lord and Saints. I'd go to work for one day, have someone say something to piss me off, throw a stack of money at them and call it a day.

Since it's a Friday drawing, there's a chance someone can win and have to sit on the winning ticket till Monday. Long %$% weekend ftl.

Word to bow wow

 

[Thats My Word]

Originally Posted by Tr1ll

Originally Posted by Joe Billionaire

wanna see some goon win

Never. Going. To. Happen.If youre quick picking, I suggest going to suburban areas to play.

Didn't some florida/dade county dude hit the lotto (not sure the amount) some time recently and went missing ??  Just something my friend told me the other week.
 

 

[8pm at msg]

If I win first thing I'm doing is playing Tears of Joy

 

[18th letter]

Originally Posted by derrty6232

Originally Posted by Tr1ll

Originally Posted by Joe Billionaire

wanna see some goon win

Never. Going. To. Happen.If youre quick picking, I suggest going to suburban areas to play.

Didn't some florida/dade county dude hit the lotto (not sure the amount) some time recently and went missing ??  Just something my friend told me the other week.
 

http://www.megamillions.c...nners/jackpothistory.asp


I see some LA, Brooklyn, albany, staten island, greenville, long beach, queens, bronx, san diego, 1 in my city,  chicago, dallas and more


goons can win.

 

[tr1ll]

Originally Posted by derrty6232

Originally Posted by Tr1ll

Originally Posted by Joe Billionaire

wanna see some goon win

Never. Going. To. Happen.If youre quick picking, I suggest going to suburban areas to play.

Didn't some florida/dade county dude hit the lotto (not sure the amount) some time recently and went missing ??  Just something my friend told me the other week.
 

http://abcnews.go.com/Nig...killing/story?id=9733226

Illuminati..

 

[solecity]

Im from RI, I SHALL WIN

 

[freeze]

i want this. badly.

 

[socluis90]

i'm in for $27. +%@@ it.

 

[kingtre]

Originally Posted by Tr1ll

Originally Posted by derrty6232

Originally Posted by Tr1ll



Never. Going. To. Happen.If youre quick picking, I suggest going to suburban areas to play.

Didn't some florida/dade county dude hit the lotto (not sure the amount) some time recently and went missing ??  Just something my friend told me the other week.
 

http://abcnews.go.com/Nig...killing/story?id=9733226

Illuminati..

u still trolling this thread? how many tickets you cop?

 

[Bert.]

i guess im the only one buying less than 10 tickets

 

[troymcclure]

never played anything ever, thinkin bout it though.

 

[solegit08til]

If I do, I'll be driving an hour to get 1 ticket, which is at the same place everybody in vegas would go to since we don't get any lotteries. The traffic at the Hoover Dam will be bananas. Good luck fellas.

My numbers would have been 5-14-27-43-50 32
edit:

The place i just mentioned an hour away in AZ, has had a constant line for 4 days straight. One dude bought $2,600 worth

 

[hellaones]

Originally Posted by HybridSoldier23



Hope someone on NT wins 

 

[6 Rings G.O.A.T.]

Can't wait to win this..

 

[hongcouver604]

You all are chasing dumb dreams 

.

We have collected the true, terribly sad stories of lotto winners that show that winning the lottery, despite the seeming wonderfulness of having some $ 500 600-million more dollars (before taxes) to your name, is not all it's cracked up to be. In fact, what seems like an American dream may actually be something of an American nightmare. Interestingly, the psychology that draws us to lotteries is the low-risk factor: While you might win big, your life goes on virtually unchanged if you don't, so there's not a ton to lose. What you might have to lose, at least according to historical precedent, often comes after you win. At least for these people, to whom the following occurred:

RELATED: The One Percent Hangs Out at a Murray Hill Pizza Place


Poverty, after spending all the money on drugs and hookers. This is the sad tale of "Lotto Lout" Michael Carroll, the "self-styled King of Chavs," who "turned up to collect his £9.7million [UK] win wearing an electronic offender's tag." After winning, he used his money on drugs, gambling, and "thousands of prostitutes" only to end up back on the dole after eight years of living the Lotto life. Said Carroll to the Daily Mail, "The party has ended and it's back to reality. I haven't got two pennies to rub together and that's the way I like it. I find it easier to live off £42 dole than a million." He sounds pretty chipper given the details of his story, which involve his wife leaving him and taking their daughter with her, and the loss of £100,000 over eight years in payments to prostitutes, among other rather grave financial mistakes. 

Poverty, after excessive gambling. Evelyn Adams won the New Jersey lottery twice, in 1985 and 1986, raking in $5.4 million. "Today the money is all gone and Adams lives in a trailer," writes Ellen Goodstein in a story titled "Unlucky in Riches." Adams said, "I was a big time gambler. I didn't drop a million dollars, but it was a lot of money. I made mistakes, some I regret, some I don't. I'm human. I can't go back now so I just go forward, one step at a time." 

Losing friends, fighting among coworkers. Take the case of the Greenwich asset managers who won the $245 million jackpot recently. Whether they were collecting it for a client or not, office lunches are surely a bit uncomfortable nowadays, as are social events with the neighbors who didn't win. 

Being looked down on for the winnings. Steve Granger won $900,000 in the West Virginia Lottery in September of 2005, and, after paying the taxes, "put most of it away for his and his wife's retirement," writes Oren Dorell in USA Today. But along with everyone knowing his business, everyone asking for investments, and everyone grabbing at him because he was suddenly considered "lucky," there are the lotto snobs, too. He once heard "someone say in an ugly tone, 'There go those lottery people,' as he and his wife passed by." Ouch.

Ending up in debt for failing to manage the money properly. These tales go on and on. Here are just a few.

A descent into crime (and bankruptcy, too). In 1998, William "Bud" Post III won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery, only to later wish it had never happened. That's because his brother hired a hit man to try to kill him and his sixth wife (and was arrested for doing so), other relatives made him invest in businesses that never paid off, a landlady made him give her a third of his winnings, and Post "spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill collector." He declared bankruptcy and, in 2006, at the age of, 66, "died of respiratory failure... at a Pittsburgh area hospital," writes Patricia Sullivan in The Washington Post. Then there's Victoria Zell, who won an $11 million Powerball jackpot with her husband in 2001, only to end up in Minnesota prison after being convicted of a drug- and alcohol-induced collision that killed one and paralyzed another. "This just goes to show you winning the Powerball doesn't guarantee you happiness," said County Attorney Amy Klobuchar. 

Ending up murdered. Abraham Shakespeare won the $31 million jackpot in Florida in 2006. He disappeared in 2009, having spent most of his fortune; his body was found in early 2010 under a concrete slab. John Campanelli writes in The Plain Dealer, "A woman who had befriended him -- and fleeced him for $1.8 million, say police -- has been charged in connection with his murder." Campanelli goes on to list 9 other unfortunate lotto cases, including the sad tales of Willie Hurt, who killed a woman over crack cocaine, and Callie Rogers, who won $3 million at the age of 16 in the UK lottery, and used her money on "vacations, cars, gifts, drugs and even breast implants." Rogers was broke by 2009, "driving a used Volkswagen Golf to her job as a maid and had twice attempted suicide."

Suicide. In June of 1997, a man named Billie Bob Harrell Jr. took the $31 million Texas Lottery jackpot. At first, all was great: "Harrell purchased a ranch. He bought a half-dozen homes for himself and other family members. He, his wife and all the kids got new automobiles. He made large contributions to his church. If members of the congregation needed help, Billie Bob was there with cash," writes Steve McVicker in The Houston Press. "Then suddenly Harrell discovered that his life was unraveling almost as quickly as it had come together.... everyone, it seemed -- family, friends, fellow worshipers and strangers -- was putting the touch on him. His spending and his lending spiraled out of control. In February those tensions splintered his already strained marriage." And tragically, 20 months after winning the lottery, Harrell committed suicide. 

Everything terrible happens that possibly can. Jack Whittaker of West Virginia was an already wealthy businessman when he won what was at the time the largest jackpot ever by a single ticket, garnering him $314.9 million on December 25, 2002. A chain of awful events followed, including his car being broken into twice, first with $545,000 in cash stolen, then later with $200,000 stolen (and later recovered); a plot was revealed in which two club employees were charged with a plot to drug his drinks and rob him; his granddaughter's boyfriend was found dead in his home from an overdose; his granddaughter was found dead at a male friend's house after being reported missing (the death was ruled an overdose); Whittaker had a DUI; Whittaker was sued by Caesars Atlantic City casino for bouncing $1.5 million worth in checks to cover gambling losses; Whittaker was sued by a woman who had previously sued him for not paying her money (he claimed thieves had stolen it all from him); and Whittaker's daughter was found dead. "I wish I'd torn that ticket up," Whittaker has said.

Being mocked for being too old to ruin your life if you win the lottery. See "Old Man Wins Lottery, May Possibly Live Happily Ever After."

 

[lvjordan238]

Originally Posted by solegit08til

If I do, I'll be driving an hour to get 1 ticket, which is at the same place everybody in vegas would go to since we don't get any lotteries. The traffic at the Hoover Dam will be bananas. Good luck fellas.

My numbers would have been 5-14-27-43-50 32
edit:

The place i just mentioned an hour away in AZ, has had a constant line for 4 days straight. One dude bought $2,600 worth

Just go a little further into Kingman. Should only have to stand in line for 10-15 minutes tops there.

 

[hugo]

Originally Posted by SoLeCiTy

Im from RI, I SHALL WIN

just the fact of knowing you live in RI, i hope you win

...............










































sike, i shall win

 

[johnnyredstorm]

Originally Posted by Zyzz

i guess im the only one buying less than 10 tickets

I only bought one ticket. No need to buy multiples when you know you got the winning numbers.

 

[ag 47]

Losing friends, fighting among coworkers. Take the case of the Greenwich asset managers who won the $245 million jackpot recently. Whether they were collecting it for a client or not, office lunches are surely a bit uncomfortable nowadays, as are social events with the neighbors who didn't win.


I'd be afraid to lose friends. No doubt about it, but I would have my closest friends set. Not sure why someone would still have coworkers after winning the lottery either.

 

[tonelow]

Originally Posted by hongcouver604

You all are chasing dumb dreams 

.

We have collected the true, terribly sad stories of lotto winners that show that winning the lottery, despite the seeming wonderfulness of having some $ 500 600-million more dollars (before taxes) to your name, is not all it's cracked up to be. In fact, what seems like an American dream may actually be something of an American nightmare. Interestingly, the psychology that draws us to lotteries is the low-risk factor: While you might win big, your life goes on virtually unchanged if you don't, so there's not a ton to lose. What you might have to lose, at least according to historical precedent, often comes after you win. At least for these people, to whom the following occurred:

RELATED: The One Percent Hangs Out at a Murray Hill Pizza Place


Poverty, after spending all the money on drugs and hookers. This is the sad tale of "Lotto Lout" Michael Carroll, the "self-styled King of Chavs," who "turned up to collect his £9.7million [UK] win wearing an electronic offender's tag." After winning, he used his money on drugs, gambling, and "thousands of prostitutes" only to end up back on the dole after eight years of living the Lotto life. Said Carroll to the Daily Mail, "The party has ended and it's back to reality. I haven't got two pennies to rub together and that's the way I like it. I find it easier to live off £42 dole than a million." He sounds pretty chipper given the details of his story, which involve his wife leaving him and taking their daughter with her, and the loss of £100,000 over eight years in payments to prostitutes, among other rather grave financial mistakes. 

 

Poverty, after excessive gambling. Evelyn Adams won the New Jersey lottery twice, in 1985 and 1986, raking in $5.4 million. "Today the money is all gone and Adams lives in a trailer," writes Ellen Goodstein in a story titled "Unlucky in Riches." Adams said, "I was a big time gambler. I didn't drop a million dollars, but it was a lot of money. I made mistakes, some I regret, some I don't. I'm human. I can't go back now so I just go forward, one step at a time." 

 

Losing friends, fighting among coworkers. Take the case of the Greenwich asset managers who won the $245 million jackpot recently. Whether they were collecting it for a client or not, office lunches are surely a bit uncomfortable nowadays, as are social events with the neighbors who didn't win. 

 

Being looked down on for the winnings. Steve Granger won $900,000 in the West Virginia Lottery in September of 2005, and, after paying the taxes, "put most of it away for his and his wife's retirement," writes Oren Dorell in USA Today. But along with everyone knowing his business, everyone asking for investments, and everyone grabbing at him because he was suddenly considered "lucky," there are the lotto snobs, too. He once heard "someone say in an ugly tone, 'There go those lottery people,' as he and his wife passed by." Ouch.

Ending up in debt for failing to manage the money properly. These tales go on and on. Here are just a few.

 

A descent into crime (and bankruptcy, too). In 1998, William "Bud" Post III won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery, only to later wish it had never happened. That's because his brother hired a hit man to try to kill him and his sixth wife (and was arrested for doing so), other relatives made him invest in businesses that never paid off, a landlady made him give her a third of his winnings, and Post "spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill collector." He declared bankruptcy and, in 2006, at the age of, 66, "died of respiratory failure... at a Pittsburgh area hospital," writes Patricia Sullivan in The Washington Post. Then there's Victoria Zell, who won an $11 million Powerball jackpot with her husband in 2001, only to end up in Minnesota prison after being convicted of a drug- and alcohol-induced collision that killed one and paralyzed another. "This just goes to show you winning the Powerball doesn't guarantee you happiness," said County Attorney Amy Klobuchar. 

 

Ending up murdered. Abraham Shakespeare won the $31 million jackpot in Florida in 2006. He disappeared in 2009, having spent most of his fortune; his body was found in early 2010 under a concrete slab. John Campanelli writes in The Plain Dealer, "A woman who had befriended him -- and fleeced him for $1.8 million, say police -- has been charged in connection with his murder." Campanelli goes on to list 9 other unfortunate lotto cases, including the sad tales of Willie Hurt, who killed a woman over crack cocaine, and Callie Rogers, who won $3 million at the age of 16 in the UK lottery, and used her money on "vacations, cars, gifts, drugs and even breast implants." Rogers was broke by 2009, "driving a used Volkswagen Golf to her job as a maid and had twice attempted suicide."

 

Suicide. In June of 1997, a man named Billie Bob Harrell Jr. took the $31 million Texas Lottery jackpot. At first, all was great: "Harrell purchased a ranch. He bought a half-dozen homes for himself and other family members. He, his wife and all the kids got new automobiles. He made large contributions to his church. If members of the congregation needed help, Billie Bob was there with cash," writes Steve McVicker in The Houston Press. "Then suddenly Harrell discovered that his life was unraveling almost as quickly as it had come together.... everyone, it seemed -- family, friends, fellow worshipers and strangers -- was putting the touch on him. His spending and his lending spiraled out of control. In February those tensions splintered his already strained marriage." And tragically, 20 months after winning the lottery, Harrell committed suicide. 

 

Everything terrible happens that possibly can. Jack Whittaker of West Virginia was an already wealthy businessman when he won what was at the time the largest jackpot ever by a single ticket, garnering him $314.9 million on December 25, 2002. A chain of awful events followed, including his car being broken into twice, first with $545,000 in cash stolen, then later with $200,000 stolen (and later recovered); a plot was revealed in which two club employees were charged with a plot to drug his drinks and rob him; his granddaughter's boyfriend was found dead in his home from an overdose; his granddaughter was found dead at a male friend's house after being reported missing (the death was ruled an overdose); Whittaker had a DUI; Whittaker was sued by Caesars Atlantic City casino for bouncing $1.5 million worth in checks to cover gambling losses; Whittaker was sued by a woman who had previously sued him for not paying her money (he claimed thieves had stolen it all from him); and Whittaker's daughter was found dead. "I wish I'd torn that ticket up," Whittaker has said.

 

Being mocked for being too old to ruin your life if you win the lottery. See "Old Man Wins Lottery, May Possibly Live Happily Ever After."

I really dont understand stories like these...of course there are gonna be some cases where stupid people win the lotto and do stupid things.
And do you really think I give a crap if some peasant points and says look at that lottery person??lol
  

 

[dirtylicious]

Originally Posted by Zyzz

i guess im the only one buying less than 10 tickets

I usually buy 1 or 2 when it goes over 100+ mil

 

[kanyewestjayz4life]

Does somebody have to win? Could this possibly drag on for a few years? or someone must win it soon? How does this work?

 

[thejrob]

Not gonna buy any tickets. I'd rather buy a dutch...

good luck though