The driver won money and spent everything on cars
And this already Sharon Tirabassi – single mother, who lived in a small rented house and worked as a bus driver. But such a life she had, until Sharon won more 10,5 million. dollars.
After, how a woman became a millionaire, she got a big house, several expensive cars, and she also began to wear exclusively branded clothing. At Sharon's house, parties are common, she loved to travel.
Unfortunately, money fast ended. Now the woman is again a bus driver and lives in a modest house. However, she managed to put undisclosed amounts to her six children..
The story of a poor waitress
Most often, however, lottery winnings bring bad luck to their owner. So it turned out with a waitress from Las Vegas named Cynthia Jay.. She decided to stop by the casino after work.. She was not going to leave a lot of money in the vending machines - she had only 27 dollars. Cynthia decided to play a lottery called "The One-armed Bandit". Gradually lost one dollar after another and was about to leave. Suddenly, a loud sound was heard throughout the casino, which informed all visitors about winning the jackpot.
Amount, which Cynthia managed to win, amounted to about 35 million dollars. To make this money, working as a waitress, she would need 1165 years. However, the luck did not last long. Less than a few months after winning, how Cynthia got into a serious car accident. The poor girl ended up in a wheelchair. She later stated, that I would give all the money, just to walk and work as a waitress again.
History 10. $16,2 million – contract killer for brother
We have already described the story above, in which they told, that you cannot trust even the closest people. A similar story happened with William "Bud" the third (William “Bud” Post III), who won 16 million dollars in 1998 year. His brother tried to hire a hitman to kill William and his wife, so he can take the winnings. This attempt failed, but William still continued his life in very difficult conditions, until he died in 2006 year. All these years he had hard times, before he died, he was broke, he had to give 5 million home owner, where he lived, also business, in which he invested, burned out.
Although William, after winning, managed to avoid death from brother (brother went to jail, when the crime was solved), his life did not go smoothly. After all, as we have seen from these unfortunate stories, winning the lottery doesn't guarantee an easy life!
Lotteries in Russia
Lottery is one of the types of gambling, but, unlike casinos, allowed everywhere in Russia. The lottery principle is, that the buyer of the lottery ticket is participating in the prize drawing, and the winners are determined at random.
The money from the sale of lottery tickets is distributed according to predetermined proportions for:
- prize fund - then, why everyone plays the lottery;
- lottery organizer fee, from which he pays all expenses and makes a profit;
- taxes and other payments to the state.
In Russia, the prize fund goes on average from 50 to 80% money from the sale of lottery tickets.
Technology does not stand still, therefore tickets do not have to be in traditional paper form. You can buy electronic lottery tickets in Russia, but this is not everywhere abroad.
Since the lottery prize pool is always smaller 100% (otherwise it makes no sense for the organizer to do this), then players generally always lose. In other words, having bought a very large number of lottery tickets, the player will receive the same 50-80% from the money spent.
But there is another option - when the prize fund accumulates every lottery draw (if it is not won). Then the winning amount can be even more, than the amount, for which the organizer sold tickets. However, taking into account the number of draws, the players still lose.
Lotteries are quite popular in Russia - people play and win. At the moment, the largest winnings amounted to about 500 million rubles, three players got them - one resident of the Voronezh region won 506 million rubles, two more split the trillionth prize in half.
In most states, lotteries are state, Russia is no exception. In fact, the market was reformatted from the beginning 2014 of the year, when three main steps appeared on it:
- organizers - Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Sports (lotteries officially finance the country's sports);
- operators - "Sportloto" and "State Sports Lotteries";
- distributor - JSC Technological Company "Center", works under the brand "Stoloto".
The state determines the rules of lotteries (they are clearly spelled out in the decree of the Ministry of Finance), but a private company, Stoloto, actually sells lottery tickets, owned by businessman Armen Sargsyan.
In fact, Stoloto is a monopolist of the lottery market, although it is only an intermediary between the players and the organizers.
It is Stoloto that issues lottery tickets, runs the runs themselves (for draw lotteries), pays winnings to winners. In fact, the company has all the work to organize lotteries in the country.
Generally, Stoloto has 3 lottery type:
- instant, or non-run - the ticket buyer will immediately know the amount of the win, and can get the winnings on the spot from the seller;
- lottery with online circulation - the draw is held every 15 minutes, without lototron, through a computer program;
- lottery with "Traditional" editions - the winning numbers are randomly selected by the lottery drum. Draws are held in a special lottery center "Stoloto" with transparent walls, the process is broadcast online.
Officially, lotteries can be drawn (them 7) and unclean (them 10). Online lotteries have been developed, because the state does not approve of participation in instant lotteries over the Internet Is actually a legalized casino. Therefore, 6 lotteries with draws every 15 minutes.
The Stoloto website informs, that thanks to lotteries, Russian sports have already received 10,9 billion rubles for development. Players have already won more 91 billion rubles.
History 6. $15 million – survival race
Many people, if you won the lottery, would invest in real estate, cars, education, etc. Michael Carroll (Michael Carroll) there were completely different plans, on his 15 millionth jackpot. IN 2002 he won the British Lottery. Michael decided to use his money, to participate in survival races (Demolition Derby) on my new car. Survival racing – type of motorsport, in which drivers crash theirs and their opponents' cars, ramming them. The last driver, whose vehicle continues to function is the winner. Besides destroying cars, Michael spent money on drugs and women, that's why I ended up in jail several times. Michael lived great until the money ran out.
Unfortunately, when you spend all your lottery winnings smashing your cars, without trying to somehow invest them and increase, they end quickly. How he destroyed cars over and over again, he also destroyed his millions!
Winning the lottery
History 7. $15 million – steal the jackpot
Some people have to buy tickets every week for years to win the lottery.. This was the case with Etta May Arquhart (Etta May Urquhart), who bought California Lottery tickets during 18 years. As in the case of Kua-Tok, she made a mistake, by giving your ticket. Etta was so excited (finally won 15 million dollars), that she gave the ticket to her son Ronnie Orender (Ronny Orender). She wanted, so that the son received the jackpot on her behalf and gave her. Ronnie took a ticket and got money, taking them to himself. Mother immediately sued her son for embezzlement of her winnings.
Again there was no suitable person. Human, who can be trusted with your lottery winnings. You can't even trust family members!
