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Im talking about any significant amount over 7 digits.
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I make money the old fashioned way.
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No but i saw someone on tv that fucked the mother of a son that won the lottery...
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Im talking about any significant amount over 7 digits.
No, therefore the odds of you winning are so much greater keep up with your investment portfolio.
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Everyday that I get to post on GetBig is like winning the lottery.
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yes, yes I did
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I don't ever play the lottery as a general rule. One day I got a few extra bucks for whatever reason and bought a few scratch lottery ticks and won 300 bucks. I never played again.
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A girl I went to school with won a million dollars, and took the 50k a year for 20 years option. They didn't live like kings, just stayed the same.
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I don't ever play the lottery as a general rule. One day I got a few extra bucks for whatever reason and bought a few scratch lottery ticks and won 300 bucks. I never played again.
Yeah, that sort of thing happened to me too. I seem to win on slot machines by only playing once every 6 - 12 months.
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Everyday that I get to post on GetBig is like winning the lottery.
yes we should give money to ron
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My dad had the winning numbers for a multi million dollar jackpot, 1 week early. If he picked the same numbers a week later he would have won millions. All chance I guess.
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My dad had the winning numbers for a multi million dollar jackpot, 1 week early. If he picked the same numbers a week later he would have won millions. All chance I guess.
Damn that would fuck me up big time.
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My dad had the winning numbers for a multi million dollar jackpot, 1 week early. If he picked the same numbers a week later he would have won millions. All chance I guess.
The odds are so slim but $2 a week or whatever on a lottery ticket isn't so bad. Only $100 a year and that's 50 chances to win something.
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I make money the old fashioned way.
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Orson has fond memories of him.
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I knew this one lady. Used to come into a restaurant I worked at in college. She was always hard up for cash so the owner would let her pay her tabs at the end of the month. he was real generous with her, not charging for coffee and such. She ended up hitting $1/2 million dollar jackpot. She dissapeared and left him with a couple hundred dollar open tab. We thought she'd eventually mail him the money or come by but never did.
I hope that whore OD'd for being such a kunt.
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yes sometimes i hope there is a hell.
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Never. And if I go into a casino, I lose every bet I make. If I choose heads, it's tails. Red, it's black. Odds? Even. Two cherries and a black cat. If I wager on a race, the horse will fall, have to be shot on the track, and drug into a dugout by a tractor, which will break down and require the assistance of a second tractor.
In this way, I fail to understand gambling. Stupidest pastime ever.
My dad had the winning numbers for a multi million dollar jackpot, 1 week early. If he picked the same numbers a week later he would have won millions. All chance I guess.
LMAO! What a kick in the balls! Even I can't compete with that.
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Dated a girl who's parents hit the lottery for $1,000,000.00! She had a decent condo in Boca, no big deal!
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I try to stay away from gambling as i come from a long line of almost-compulsive gamblers. I was 7, summertime in Cannes, my parents and some friends met in Monaco at the Hotel de Paris. There was a slot machine on the way to the restroom. There was a "dame pipi" there (toilet attendant let's say) who was cursing me for trying to play that slot machine, going back and forth to my parent's table for an extra franc. After 4 or 5 tries, I won a hundred francs, came back to my parent's table proud as fuck. My father took the money, told me he'd take care of it. I understood years later he gambled it as he did with most cash presents given to me back then.
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Im talking about any significant amount over 7 digits.
After your mom saw my dick she said she won the lottery.
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When I was a kid I got intrigued by one of those machines where you drop a coin in and if you're lucky your coin will cause a landslide of all the other precariously balanced coins on moving shelves. It was on a ferry to Nova Scotia and I discovered that if I revisited the machine every 15 minutes or so I could just reach in and collect the coins that the motion of the ship tipped off.
Some rough seas too. 3/4 of those damn coins must have been glued down. Might have made $20 but gave me something to do.
It is a cool story.
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Im talking about any significant amount over 7 digits.
i had 5 out of the 6 numbers 3 times , only played a buck a week for a year and haven't played it since. a little over a k each time. >:( >:( >:(
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After your mom saw my dick she said she won the lottery.
haha.
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rumor has it this clown won some money
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When I was a kid I got intrigued by one of those machines where you drop a coin in and if you're lucky your coin will cause a landslide of all the other precariously balanced coins on moving shelves. It was on a ferry to Nova Scotia and I discovered that if I revisited the machine every 15 minutes or so I could just reach in and collect the coins that the motion of the ship tipped off.
Some rough seas too. 3/4 of those damn coins must have been glued down. Might have made $20 but gave me something to do.
It is a cool story.
The whole front row of coins are glued down hanging over the edge. It gives the illusion that a log of coins are about to fall but they won't
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Won a local four-digit lottery the first time I played it as a kid. It was only $89, but still. :D
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Won a local four-digit lottery the first time I played it as a kid. It was only $89, but still. :D
How does it feel to be rich?
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The whole front row of coins are glued down hanging over the edge. It gives the illusion that a log of coins are about to fall but they won't
DEM BASTARDS> >:( >:( >:( >:(
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The Millionaire Who Would Be Constable
Former APD cop wins lottery, settles brutality lawsuit, and embarks on dream of becoming a ... constable?
By Patricia J. Ruland, Fri., Sept. 28, 2007
Robert Chody
(Photo from the Chody Campaign Website)If you won a megalottery, what would you do? Travel around the world? Buy a big honkin' ranch? Put all your kids through college – and all your relatives' kids and your neighbors'? Maybe pull a Tony Sanchez and run for governor?
How about attempting a slightly more modest ambition: running for constable in Williamson County, Texas? That's the current project of Robert Chody, a former Austin Police Department officer and currently a deputy constable (reserve) for Precinct 2 in Williamson Co.
In March 2001, Chody and his wife, Beverly, won a nominal $85 million – the actual check paid to their newly created holding company came to $51 million – on Beverly's Quick Pick she bought at a Shoppers Mart. Initially Chody said he would remain a police officer, but he resigned that June. Since 2003, he has served as both a paid and unpaid WilCo deputy constable.
And then abruptly, last month, Chody announced he'll run in the March 2008 Republican primary, against 10-year incumbent Precinct 1 Constable Gary Griffin (who has long been a thorn in the side of the WilCo political establishment; see "WilCo Budget War Goes to Appeals Court," March 30). Chody's campaign website features, among the usual block-walking photos, a TV clip of the Chodys accepting an enormous poster-board check for $51 million from Texas Lottery officials. The website paints a warm and fuzzy portrait of the would-be cowboy candidate. Grinning from beneath the rim of his 10-gallon hat is a religious family man, generous donor, and police officer who loves working with the youth of his community. He touts his service as a Katrina volunteer as well, declares not once but four times that police work is his true "calling," and adds that serving as reserve deputy constable under Precinct 2 Constable Dale Vannoy is his post-APD "newfound calling." As campaign fodder goes, its effusiveness is fairly predictable. But in Chody's case, what the website doesn't say may be even more revealing than it is in most political campaigns.
The guy just pisses me off for some reason.. Wins more money than he can spend and then goes to work as a Constable?? Just pissing in the lottery Gods cereal
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yes, people have won the lottery...
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I won 12 cases of Coca-Cola once on a radio call in show, and a pair of concert tickets and a trip for two to Dominican Republic I couldn't use... back then I only had one week of holidays I could use!!! :'(
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I won $300 on a stratch off.. I was walking by and some guy was telling me how excited he was about this new game and he kept winning, and I ended up winning.
Oh yea.. I won this lottery last night called the Powerball. No big deal though.. But you guys should know I am buying this website.
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yes, people have won the lottery...
Profound.
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I won the genetic lottery.
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I won $1,000 on an "instant winner scartcher" in 1990. True story. :)
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Profound.
Why I thank you fine sir!
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You know what would be funny? If a multimillionaire who had say, 300 million, played the lottery, and won 400-500 million, that would really piss people off.
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You know what would be funny? If a multimillionaire who had say, 300 million, played the lottery, and won 400-500 million, that would really piss people off.
A few years ago I remember some guy won who was pretty well off(not sure if that rich though) with his own large construction company.. He used the money to grow his business and employ more people.
Me personally, I'd spend that money on hookers, blow, grassfed beef, human grade gh, and a 100 foot golden statue of myself in my hometown.
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A few years ago I remember some guy won who was pretty well off(not sure if that rich though) with his own large construction company.. He used the money to grow his business and employ more people.
Me personally, I'd spend that money on hookers, blow, grassfed beef, human grade gh, and a 100 foot golden statue of myself in my hometown.
Lol gear post!!! We think alike
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I know a very wealthy family millionaires that won $ 7,000,000.00 in the Florida lottery a few years ago!
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Powerball has been approved for California and will start April 2013
Get ready for one billion dollar jackpots soon
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/powerball-fever-hits-california-as-game-approved-for-state.html (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/powerball-fever-hits-california-as-game-approved-for-state.html)
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Never like gambling, but I perticipate in the Dutch State New Years Lottery for over 20 yrs or so....1st prize about 25 US dollars.
Never won shit of course.
My father once won 500 Dutch guilders long time ago, guess it would be about 10,000 dollars today. But he has been participating for over 50 yrs, so in the end you only lose....
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yes sometimes i hope there is a hell.
hell is not a literal place
it is just eternal death
not too bad
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You know what would be funny? If a multimillionaire who had say, 300 million, played the lottery, and won 400-500 million, that would really piss people off.
;D
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Everyday that I get to post on GetBig is like winning the lottery.
;D
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know a guy won the lottery and went to work in a job no one really wanted for a token dollar and they fired him. ;D
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http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20130104/US.Lottery.Privacy/
PHOENIX — When two winning tickets for a record $588 million Powerball jackpot were claimed from the Nov. 28 drawing, the world focused on the winners.
A Missouri couple appeared at a press conference and held up the traditional giant-sized check. The Arizona winner, however, skipped the press conference where lottery officials announced last month that someone had claimed the second half of the prize.
The differing approach to releasing information on the winners reflects a broader debate that is playing out in state Legislatures and lottery offices nationwide: Should the winners' names be secret?
Lawmakers in Michigan and New Jersey think so, proposing bills to allow anonymity because winners are prone to falling victim to scams, shady businesses, greedy distant family members and violent criminals looking to shake them down.
Lotteries object, arguing that publicizing the winners' names drives sales and that having their names released ensures that people know there isn't something fishy afoot, like a game rigged so a lottery insider wins.
When players see that an actual person won, "it has a much greater impact than when they might read that the lottery paid a big prize to an anonymous player," said Andi Brancato, director of public relations for the Michigan state lottery.
Most states require the names of lottery winners be disclosed, albeit in different ways. Some states require the winner to appear at a press conference, like Missouri winners Mark and Cindy Hill did on Nov. 30.
Arizona and other states allow winners not to appear in public, but their names can be obtained through public records laws. The Arizona winner, Matthew Good, was not identified at the news conference a week after the Hills' came forward, and has not given interviews or appeared in public.
When news media including The Associated Press learned of his name through records requests, TV crews and reporters flocked to Good's neighborhood to get reaction from the winner of a lottery that captivated the nation.
Jeff Hatch-Miller, executive director of the Arizona Lottery, said he understands winners' desire for privacy, but he argues they are essentially entering into a large contract with the government that is public. Others argue that appearing at a news conference helps defuse media interest because the winner is available to answer questions that satisfy the media's interest in telling their stories.
In Michigan, Republican state Sen. Tory Rocca pushed a lottery bill that allows winners to remain anonymous. It didn't pass, but in arguing for it, he cited cases where lottery winners were shot and killed because of their newfound wealth.
A Florida woman was convicted last month of first-degree murder after she befriended a man who won a $30 million jackpot in 2006. Prosecutors said she took control of his assets, killed him, buried him in her yard and poured a concrete slab above the grave.
An effort in New Jersey by Democratic Sen. Jim Whelan took a middle ground between public release and privacy, calling for a one-year delay in releasing winners' names. It also didn't make it out of the Legislature last year, but he said he'll keep pressing to get it passed.
Whelan said a one-year delay would give winners a chance to adjust while still keeping the public disclosure lotteries say they need. However, Whelan said he doesn't really buy the agencies' arguments for public disclosure.
"I'm not sure how many people are spurred to buy a lottery ticket because they see a picture of someone in the paper holding up a big check - and I don't think people don't buy a ticket because they think the whole thing's fixed," Whelan said.
Of 44 states participating in Powerball and 33 in Mega-Millions, only Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, North Dakota and Ohio allow blanket anonymity, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, which oversees the games.
"Obviously, it is a law that is designed to ensure an open and transparent process, so that the public can be ensured that insiders are not winners," Strutt said. "But in today's world, most of us can understand the wish to remain anonymous."
The most famous modern lottery fraud case happened in 1980 when Pennsylvania Lottery district manager Edward Plevel and TV announcer Nick Perry were convicted of fixing the result of the Daily Number drawing.
Authorities found that some of the ping pong balls used in the game were injected with paint to make them too heavy to float up the winning slots. The result paid $3.8 million, a record at the time, and eight people involved in the fix won a total of about $1.2 million.
Former Missouri child services worker Sandra Hayes shared a $224 million Powerball jackpot with a dozen co-workers in 2006 and said she understands the push for anonymity.
Hayes said she received many requests for money or to make investments, both at work (she kept her job another month) and at home, where she'd find people waiting on her porch. Her lump sum payout after taxes was more than $6 million.
Even if people are allowed to remain anonymous, it's often inevitable that their identities will become known.
Steve Thornton, a lawyer in Bowling Green, Ky., has helped two big lottery winners shield their names through corporations despite rules in his state that require disclosure of winners. Even though they were kept out of the public eye, one winner couldn't stay hidden.
"It was not many months later that lots of people knew who won, even though it was not released, because of their gifts and their spending." Thornton said.
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There is no way I would not be the most obnoxious human being alive if I won the powerball. I am pretty greedy and most likely a sociopath so I would not even think of giving a dime to 99% of the people in my daily life now. I would however post ridiculous shit about my money, like Floyd Mayweather does.
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I wish.
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im currently entered in publisher's clearing house-in feb they have a drawing-win 5000 a week for life
ive only ever won like 30 bucks on scratch offs
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I know a very wealthy family millionaires that won $ 7,000,000.00 in the Florida lottery a few years ago!
you must be very proud
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I didn't win the lottery but recently my wife inherited a large sum of money .
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I didn't win the lottery but recently my wife inherited a large sum of money .
you obviously married well
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i never played the lottery
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you obviously married well
My wife and I don't give a fuck about money ,we have put money aside for my kid and the rest we are wasting it traveling ,charity and helping some people .
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You have a better chance of dying within the next 30 seconds than hitting the mega or powerball lottery... don't waste your money. The odds are 1 in 175,000,000.
If you must play, play your state's cash 5 lottery. You won't win as much, but the odds are much better. Depending on what state you're in, the odds are anywhere from 1 in 300,000 to 1 in 1,500,000.
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A few years ago I remember some guy won who was pretty well off(not sure if that rich though) with his own large construction company.. He used the money to grow his business and employ more people.
Me personally, I'd spend that money on hookers, blow, grassfed beef, human grade gh, and a 100 foot golden statue of myself in my hometown.
If this is the guy I'm thinking of, in West Virginia, he lived near my late aunt. He was already a millionaire or near-millionaire when he won hundreds of millions in the Powerball.
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My wife and I don't give a fuck about money ,we have put money aside for my kid and the rest we are wasting it traveling ,charity and helping some people .
I remember you touching on this before. props to you and the wife che. good vibes :)
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I haven't won big yet, but I keep trying. I buy tickets twice a week.
I have been doing so since 1989. At that time, in the office where I then worked, one of the co-workers won. He won a $1,375,000. He was a real asshole. If I had to make a list of the 300 people I would most like to see win the lottery, his name would not have been on that list.
So, anyway, I figured if he could win, I could win. Thus I have been buying tickets ever since. Like bodybuilding, I never give up.
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I have won like 50 bucks or something a few times... I only play when the big prize is like over 50 million... I know it's ridiculous, but I figure if I'm going to toss away money, the risk/reward needs to be pretty big.
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If this is the guy I'm thinking of, in West Virginia, he lived near my late aunt. He was already a millionaire or near-millionaire when he won hundreds of millions in the Powerball.
His life is completely ruined now with arrests, money stolen from his truck, granddaughter dead, daughter dead and on and on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Whittaker_%28lottery_winner%29
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On August 5, 2003, thieves broke into his car while it was parked at the Pink Pony, a strip club in Cross Lanes, West Virginia. The thieves went away with $2,000 in cash.[4] Two employees at the club, namely, the general manager and dancer manager, who were romantically linked, were later arrested and charged with a plot to put drugs in Whittaker's drinks and then rob him.[5] On January 25, 2004, thieves once again broke into his car, this time making off with an estimated $200,000 in cash that was later recovered.
On September 17, 2004, Jesse Tribble, an 18-year-old on-and-off-again boyfriend of Jack's granddaughter Brandi Bragg, was found dead in Whittaker's home in Teays Valley, West Virginia. A coroner's report indicated that he died from overdosing on a combination of oxycodone, methadone, meperidine and cocaine.
On December 20, 2004, Brandi Bragg, his granddaughter, 17, was found dead on the property of one of her male friends after being reported missing on December 9. Her body was wrapped inside a plastic tarp and dumped behind a junked van. No one was charged with a crime and the death was ruled an overdose.[5]
At an October 11, 2005 hearing related to his January 2003 DUI, a visibly shaken Whittaker lashed out at local law enforcement agencies for focusing on his troubles while failing to arrest anyone in relation to his granddaughter's death,[6]
“ Go after whoever killed my granddaughter with as much zealous [sic] as these butt holes are trying to convict me of something I didn’t do. ”
Whittaker is also being sued by Caesars Atlantic City casino for bouncing $1.5 million worth of checks to cover gambling losses. Whittaker is also countersuing them, claiming that his losses were supposed to be credited due to a slot machine he developed and that they in fact owe him money.[7]
On January 11, 2007, a legal complaint against Whittaker alleged he claimed that on September 11, 2006, thieves took all of his money.[8] The thieves, according to the account, went to 12 branches of the City National Bank and cashed 12 checks. The incident came to light because Whittaker had not been paying money to a woman who had previously sued him. Kitti French filed the complaint earlier in the week, requesting court costs and money from Whittaker.
On July 5, 2009, Ginger Whittaker Bragg, Jack's daughter and the mother of Brandi Bragg, was found dead in Daniels, Raleigh County, West Virginia.[9]
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I remember you touching on this before. props to you and the wife che. good vibes :)
Thank you Airosol.
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My dad had the winning numbers for a multi million dollar jackpot, 1 week early. If he picked the same numbers a week later he would have won millions. All chance I guess.
wow. did he ever recover?
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This guy did not recover. My guess is that one of his employees knows how to process the cassava.
http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130107/US.Lottery.Winner.Poisoned/
CHICAGO — With no signs of trauma and nothing to raise suspicions, the sudden death of a Chicago man just as he was about to collect nearly $425,000 in lottery winnings was initially ruled a result of natural causes.
Nearly six months later, authorities have a mystery on their hands after medical examiners, responding to a relative's pleas, did an expanded screening and determined that Urooj Khan, 46, died shortly after ingesting a lethal dose of cyanide. The finding has triggered a homicide investigation, the Chicago Police Department said Monday.
"It's pretty unusual," said Cook County Medical Examiner Stephen Cina, commenting on the rarity of cyanide poisonings. "I've had one, maybe two cases out of 4,500 autopsies I've done."
In June, Khan, who owned a number of dry cleaners, stopped in at a 7-Eleven near his home in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the city's North Side and bought a ticket for an instant lottery game.
He scratched off the ticket, then jumped up and down and repeatedly shouted, "I hit a million," Khan recalled days later during a ceremony in which Illinois Lottery officials presented him with an oversized check. He said he was so overjoyed he ran back into the store and tipped the clerk $100.
"Winning the lottery means everything to me," he said at the June 26 ceremony, also attended by his wife, Shabana Ansari; their daughter, Jasmeen Khan; and several friends. He said he would put some of his winnings into his businesses and donate some to a children's hospital.
Instead of the full $1 million over installments, Khan opted to take his winnings in a lump sum of just over $600,000. After taxes, the winnings amounted to about $425,000, said lottery spokesman Mike Lang. The check was issued from the state Comptroller's Office on July 19, the day before Khan died, but was cashed on Aug. 15, Lang said. If a lottery winner dies, the money typically goes to his or her estate, Lang said.
Khan was pronounced dead July 20 at a hospital, but Cina would not say where Khan was when he fell ill, citing the ongoing investigation.
No signs of trauma were found on Khan's body during an external exam and no autopsy was done because, at the time, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office didn't generally perform them on those 45 and older unless the death was suspicious, Cina said. The cutoff age has since been raised to age 50.
A basic toxicology screening for opiates, cocaine and carbon monoxide came back negative, and the death was ruled a result of the narrowing and hardening of coronary arteries.
Cyanide can get into the body by being inhaled, swallowed or injected. Deborah Blum, an expert on poisons who has written about the detectives who pioneered forensic toxicology, said the use of cyanide in killings has become rare in part because it is difficult to obtain and normally easy to detect, often leaving blue splotches on a victim's skin.
"The thing about it is that it's not one of those poisons that's tasteless," Blum said. "It has a really strong, bitter taste, so you would know you had swallowed something bad if you had swallowed cyanide. But if you had a high enough dose it wouldn't matter, because ... a good lethal does will take you out in less than five minutes."
Only a small amount of fine, white cyanide powder can be deadly, she said, as it disrupts the ability of cells to transport oxygen around the body, causing a convulsive, violent death.
"It essentially kills you in this explosion of cell death," she said. "You feel like you're suffocating."
A relative came forward days after the initial cause of death was released and asked authorities to look into the case further, Cina said. He refused to identify the relative.
"She (the morgue worker) then reopened the case and did more expansive toxicology, including all the major drugs of use, all the common prescription drugs and also included I believe strychnine and cyanide in there just in case something came up," Cina said. "And in fact cyanide came up in this case."
The full results came back in November. Chicago Police Department spokeswoman Melissa Stratton confirmed the department was now investigating the death and said detectives were working closely with the Medical Examiner's Office.
Investigators will likely exhume the body, Cina said.
Calls to Khan's family went unanswered Monday.