money .. who needs it?

[auntAgonist]

Riches lead to despair for huge lotto winner

Washington - Money can't buy happiness. No one knows that better than Jack Whittaker, winner of the biggest unshared lottery jackpot in US history.

It was a life-altering experience, to say the least, but unfortunately for Whittaker much of the change has not been for the better.

The 57-year-old has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to thieves, has been sued and charged with drunken driving and this week lost one of the most precious things in his life: his granddaughter, who died on Monday and was buried Christmas Eve, almost exactly two years after Whittaker won the enormous prize.

"If I had known what lay before us, I would have torn up the lottery ticket," Whittaker's wife, Jewel, told the Charleston Gazette.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=22&art_id=qw1103961248776B224

[MercutioATC]

1. Yep, it was the MONEY'S fault.....

Couldn't have been that this guy was an ass....

[auntAgonist]

6. Sounds like he lived a double life ....

I guess we reap what we sow.

[DS1]

2. I've heard all the lottery horror stories, yet I'm still very much willing

to try

:cry: me a river

[auntAgonist]

4. me too! I'd give it a shot.

[dmkinsey]

3. Let ME try

I'm sure I'd be the BEST rich person ever

[auntAgonist]

5. You and me both! WELCOME to DU ! ! !

[Forkboy]

7. I sure as hell do!

:-(

[amber dog democrat]

8. If one must be accursed

too much money sounds like one of the better ones... unelss you wind up like Citizen Kane, squeaking about " ROSEBUD" in the end.

Whatthehell.... I'd do it !

[skygazer]

9. Yeah, blame the lottery, not your idiot husband

Who was a gambling addict and who was robbed of thousands of dollars because he took a bag full of cash to a strip club - $545,000 in cash.

Once again, a case of people who can't take responsibility for their own actions.

[auntAgonist]

10. my thoughts exactly!

[Left Is Write]

11. He carried around 545K in CASH?

Who does that? What was he thinking?

[auntAgonist]

13. probably about the strippers he was watching and not the cash

that was probably for the 'other' stuff he was into.

[madison2000]

12. some people are too stupid to be rich n/t