Friday, January 25, 2013
Sad stories of lotto winners
6/49- 0 winner
Draw date: 1/31/2013
Estimated Jackpot Prize P68 million
6/45- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/25/2013
6-19-27-29-34-45
Jackpot Prize P55,536,805.80
6/42- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/24/2013
12-19-24-33-34-41
Jackpot Prize P13,641,613.20
6/55- 1 winner
Draw date: 1/23/2013
8-16-21-23-24-54
Jackpot Prize P 40,940,528.40
As of Dec -2012, PCSO has 3,035 lotto terminal outlets all over the Philippines.
Sad stories of lotto winners
Blowing money on blow:
Want to know how to fritter away a multi-million lottery fortune? Ask Michael Carroll: The unemployed Brit has blown a £9.7 million jackpot he won in 2002 (approximately $15 million at the time) and as of 2010, was hoping to get his old job back as a garbageman. At first, Carroll lavished gifts on friends and family, but soon started spending on less admirable causes: Cocaine, parties, cars, and, at one point, up to four prostitutes a day. "The party has ended," he told the UK's Daily Mail, "and it's back to reality. That's the way I like it. I find it easier to live off £42 dole than a million."
Philanthropic pauper:
Janite Lee, a wigmaker who immigrated from North Korea to St. Louis, won an $18 million lotto jackpot in 1993. She used the winnings to better her community, sinking millions into the construction of a nondenominational church and a reading room at Washington University. She also donated so much to the Democrat National Committee that she was ranked 31st on a list of "soft money" donors — right beneath Boeing. Several of Lee's investments turned sour; she spent hundreds of thousands on gambling. Lee filed for bankruptcy in 1997.
Money can buy haplessness:
After winning $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988, William 'Bud' Post should have had it made, but that was hardly the case for the shotgun-toting rough rider of Erie, Pa. "His problems," reported The Washington Post, "included a brother who tried to hire a contract murderer to kill him and his sixth wife; a landlady who forced him to give her one-third of the jackpot; and a conviction on an assault charge, after Mr. Post fired a shotgun at a man trying to collect a debt at his deteriorating dream house in northwestern Pennsylvania." In 1996, the cash-strapped former millionaire auctioned off the rights to his remaining lotto payments. After repaying his lenders, he was again in the clear — that is, until he bought two homes, a truck, a luxury camper, computers, and a $260,000 sailboat. "I was much happier when I was broke," he said. He died in 2006, on a $450-per-month disability check.
The guy who couldn't catch a break:
Vietnam veteran Wayne Schenk thought the $1 million New York lotto he won would pay for his costly lung cancer treatments, but he was wrong. New York lottery officials rejected his request to receive the amount in a lump sum. He only received one $50,000 payment — well short of the $125,000 initial outlay required for the specialized care — before he passed away in 2007.
Fool me once, shame on you:
In a bizarre twist of luck, New Jersey resident Evelyn Adams won the state's lottery twice — and managed to squander her $5.4 million total winnings. Adams, a compulsive gambler, spent the bulk of her payout at Atlantic City casinos. She wound up in a trailer. "Winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to be," she later told reporters.
Source: The week.