REPORT: $590M Lottery Winner To Share Fortune With Her Gay Son And His Partner

[warrior1]

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Last week Florida resident Gloria Mackenzie, 84, came forward as the $590M winner of the largest individual lottery jackpot prize in US history. According to the British tabloid Daily Mail, Mackenzie is going to share the jackpot with her 57 year-old son Scott, who lives in Jacksonville with his partner Jerry, age 65.



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[joeybee12]

1. Good, and she should give the woman who let her cut in $1 million...nt

[Nye Bevan]

3. Please don't start in with that nonsense again.

The numbers the machine generates are RANDOM. Whether or not you let someone in line does not affect this. There is NOT a predetermined list of numbers that the machine is working through. As has been discussed here at great length.

[joeybee12]

5. So? It'd be a nice gesture...

She can afford it...it's a drop in the bucket for her right now...

[Nye Bevan]

6. If I let Warren Buffet cut in line in front of me I wouldn't expect a million dollar reward.

And he has a lot more money than the lottery winner.

Perhaps she could buy the person a box of chocolates, or a bottle of champagne.

[liberal_at_heart]

13. that machine picked the numbers it did. Those numbers would have been chosen whether the winner

had been in that place or the person who let her in front was in that spot. Her cutting in line wouldn't have magically changed the fact that those were the numbers that that machine chose at that particular moment in time.

[Jenoch]

14. You are completely wrong.

Those numbers were not sitting line in that machine waiting for the next person to buy a quick pick. If the clerk had pushed the button a fraction of a second sooner or later, that old woman would have received different numbers.

[liberal_at_heart]

12. I agree.

[onehandle]

2. Good. Teh Gay Agenda will be well funded for years. nt

[graham4anything]

4. Very good. But she should give the other woman at least $5 million.

[Nye Bevan]

7. No she shouldn't. The other woman had nothing to do with her winning the prize.

Sheesh.

[graham4anything]

11. It's a nice gesture, and shows good will.

I know if I won, I wouldn't give it to people that normally get money.

I would give to family, and the random day to day people I see. (people at the health club, people in the supermarket,
people that might not be family or friends, but make my day a little happier with idle conversation and a smile.
The people that would least expect it, and probably need it the most. (and assorted but not all neighbors.)
Someone like the guy who delivers the water bottles every few weeks. A special person working at the library.
A lifeguard at the lake. etc.

This woman did something that is rarer and rarer-she was polite. And she did not do it to get anything out of it.
So, she should be rewarded for that.

It's a pass it forward moment.

This other woman is not demanding anything. She did it unconditional. And that is the type of thing I myself would
reward.

[kcr]

18. I agree. She was beyond polite

The winner budged in front of her. The clerk noticed this and went to wait on her instead, and she said to go ahead and wait on line cutter/eventual winner. I don't know too many people like that. I don't know about anyone else, and maybe it's a regional thing, but I know I've stood in enough lines to know that people tend to be protective in their spot in line. Lines for lotto tickets? Forget it. It's pretty unbelievable that someone let another person cut in front of them in a lottery ticket line like that. But I guess the sort of person who cuts in line feels pretty entitled. We shouldn't hold our breath that she's going to give that extraordinarily nice and polite woman anything. I know I'm not.

[kcr]

15. Well, yes, she did.

She wouldn't have won if that woman hadn't let her cut in front of her.

[Nye Bevan]

19. How do you know?

Do you believe that the machine has a predetermined list of combinations that it is working through, one at a time, customer by customer?

[kcr]

23. No, I don't.

If she hadn't been in that spot in line, she wouldn't have won, would she? Or do you believe there is a predetermined list of combinations? Edited to clarify. Do you believe she was predetermined to get that set of numbers no matter what time she got the ticket? I don't.

[upaloopa]

27. There is no way of knowing that. The machine number and

the lotto number are randomly generated. You can not foresee something that hadn't happened yet. It is just a coincidence that the winner got a random number that matched another random number. The woman behind her if first would have gotten a random number also and the chance that that number was the winning number is the same chance that any other random number has.

[kcr]

28. Yes, there is.

She did not have a predetermined set of numbers she was destined to get. If she hadn't happened to purchase the numbers when she did, she wouldn't have won. If the woman hadn't allowed her to cut in, neither would have won. Edited to add, okay, very likely wouldn't have won. The same way I didn't win. Which is to say, she wouldn't have won.

[upaloopa]

29. Whatever

[msongs]

8. she gets to actually keep nowhere near that amount nt

[William769]

17. Are you really that petty? Seriousely?

[Poll_Blind]

20. You misunderstand the point I'm trying to make: Whereas a conservative would view the...

...splitting of the funds with gay men as some sort of ominous development, in reality they're just going to spend the money on stuff like everyone else.

PB

[Nye Bevan]

21. Meow meow scratch. Jealous much? (nt)

[Poll_Blind]

25. If two people in a row totally miss my point, I'm thinking I didn't communicate it clearly.

Message deleted. I meant absolutely no insult to winner or her son who she split the money with.

Sometimes I forget how...like the lenses that different people wear when they read messages at DU. How something completely not meant to be offensive can really offend someone because they view the comment in a way you never meant at all.

PB

[Nye Bevan]

26. Sorry I misunderstood your point.

That has happened to me too.

[Politicalboi]

10. They look like a happy bunch in that picture

You would think they would have told them not to use that picture. Is she going to give anything to the person who allowed her to take cuts? I see she has other family, but chose to split it with her son. I wonder if her family dissed her, and her son was the only one to take care of her. If so, good for her.

[William769]

16. Good!

[nessa]

22. I think it would be news if she didn't share it with her family. (nt)

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[HiPointDem]

24. so what? she's sharing with her family, what's so newsworthy?