Caught up in the crowd

[jsburger]

Well, after I said my wife doesn't gamble much she wanted to get a lottery ticket. So we drove up to Malad City, Idaho about 60 miles. This is the first time we drove specifically to get a lottery ticket or gamble. Malad is a town of maybe 5-7 thousand people. The first gas station off the interstate had a line out the door and half way around the gas pumps and the temperature was 20*. I said no way. We drove into "town" and found a bar with lots of cars but no line out the door. About 30 people in line inside, warm and only about 30 minutes. She got her ticket and don't expect to hear if she wins.

BTW, 99% of the cars had Utah plates.

[charlese]

Hope she wins, John!

Shucks, Hope everyone wins!

[ERLover]

Ed,
Best one I heard was the woman that won and was picketed by parents of sick children that wanted $1 million each to help their kids. Between them and the press the winner looked like a heartless hoarder that would not give 1 million to save the kids. Then the relatives demanded money and refused they filed false claims of child abuse. The lottery winner won the trials but between the relatives and the parents of sick children they received death threats every day.
Sounds a bit far fetched, or she did not have good council to get court injunctions, restraining orders, ect.
I think for a billion and a half it can/could be handled. Money is power and options.

[ERLover]

BTW, by the way, I bought 5, yea I know the odds and better off putting into my savings account at about .5% interest rate, but what the heck, live a bit dangerously!!!!! I know who I would share some of it with here, and who not

[jsburger]

Hope she wins, John!

Shucks, Hope everyone wins!

Well, she won't but that is OK. We had a nice road trip and had some great BBQ in Malad.

[jsburger]

Ed,
Best one I heard was the woman that won and was picketed by parents of sick children that wanted $1 million each to help their kids. Between them and the press the winner looked like a heartless hoarder that would not give 1 million to save the kids. Then the relatives demanded money and refused they filed false claims of child abuse. The lottery winner won the trials but between the relatives and the parents of sick children they received death threats every day.
Sounds a bit far fetched, or she did not have good council to get court injunctions, restraining orders, ect.
I think for a billion and a half it can/could be handled. Money is power and options.

As I think you aid, "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see." My parents told me that also. I wish more people subscribed to that.

[ERLover]

Ed, getting back to yoke suckers, memory kicked in, I think it was on 60 Minutes a few years ago, a so called mother went internet/emails soliciting money for her cancer diagnosed daughter, she had pics of her in her hospital room, lose of hair, ect. Family members turned her in for fraud, her daughter did not have cancer, mom shaved her head, got a room in her house and set up like a hospital room for photos of her daughter. Point is, those so called solicitors of the lotto winner should have been at Shriners Hospital, or any of the other ones to get help, not without any authenticity begging for money.
If the one they interviewed did not take care of family, then it is her problem, and who knows how dysfunctional she or her family is.

[oldiron]

I almost never play the lottery and have never gone gambling however, I just had to purchase some tickets for this one.

As for the looser solicitors, Yes they need to visit a Shriners hospital if their kids need help. Shriners hospitals do amazing things.

If anyone here does win the lottery, By all means, Keep it as hushed as possible!!!!!!!!

Best of luck to everyone who did purchase some tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike

[benush26]

Back in 95 or 96 I was working with a gentleman who's wife LOST the lottery by not playing. She had played the same numbers since the Powerball was offered in Montana. On a very cold winter night she decided that she wasn't going to go out into the frigid cold to buy her customary ticket(s). That night the numbers she had been playing for years hit and she would have been the sole winner of over $40 million. He said she was physically ill for a week.
A few years later a woman in my department said that the previous night her husband had not stopped to get their PB ticket (they only played one and always the same numbers). Back then the 5 white balls payout was $100,000. She was not too upset because there were three other tickets that had 5 numbers so she said she only lost $25,000. Suffering from foot in mouth disease I said that each ticket was worth $100,000. I still regret being the one that told her that.


Be well,
Ben

[ERLover]

Ben with those aquatints I start buying tickets with them or start wearing a lightning rod