[Cation]

So, the woman in question paid over a 100$ for lottery tickets. She put the nephew's name on the ticket "for luck".

Won 1.2M $.

Now she's taking him to court, she wants to take his 0.6M $.

https://www.businessinsider.com/lottery-...erral&IR=T

Opinions?

[porscheguy]

Split the difference and walk away. The only people who win in shit like this are the attorneys.

[Saweeep]

The nephew is a cunt.

That's my opinion.

[Mage]

It's undeserved money and they are relatives. The decent thing is not to be petty and split the money with all parties involved.

I have heard that about two thirds of people who win huge sums of money in lotteries waste it and after about two years end up broke, with huge debts, with ruined relationships and often with worse health and drug addiction problems. They end up worse then they begun with and winning the lottery was a curse. It can be attributed to two factors:

1)If you cannot earn and save significant money yourself you are likely to not have the smarts and discipline to hold on to an unexpectedly earned undeserved money as well.

2)Most people who buy lottery tickets have a below average intelligence. It's dubbed the "tax on the stupid" for a reason.

[budoslavic]

I don't know about you guys, but wow...the angry aunt is a fucking cunt. Pay attention to her facial expression and body language. Greed got to her.

[Mage]

(09-02-2018 11:32 AM)budoslavic Wrote:  

I don't know about you guys, but wow...the angry aunt is a fucking cunt. Pay attention to her facial expression and body language. Greed got to her.

You can see in the video that at least the aunt is of little intelligence by the way she speaks and simple way she thinks. She believes in luck, in lucky name on ticket and that a lottery money can be "deserved" or " undeserved". Because of greed and pettiness these people will waste significant percentage of their money in courts and make it leave their family. They will also divide their family, into ones who support the aunt and others who support the nephew. They will turn their luck into a disaster.

[Cation]

Mage, I agree on everything you said (I researched the topic of lottery winners a few years ago), apart from the "lottery is for stupid people". That is simply not true.

That is like saying that gamblers usually have below average IQ. Bullshit.

It is true that poor people buy lottery tickets more often than rich people, but it has nothing to do with intelligence.

Source:
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/...mographics

[BlastbeatCasanova]

Buying lottery tickets is the poor man's tax. I'll never forget being held up for literally 15 minutes in a line at a gas station because some scrub couldn't decide which ticket to buy

[trippin_squares]

Mo' money really does cause mo' problems... for the unwashed masses like these two clowns.

[Malone]

(09-02-2018 12:46 PM)Cation Wrote:  

Mage, I agree on everything you said (I researched the topic of lottery winners a few years ago), apart from the "lottery is for stupid people". That is simply not true.

That is like saying that gamblers usually have below average IQ. Bullshit.

It is true that poor people buy lottery tickets more often than rich people, but it has nothing to do with intelligence.

Source:
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/...mographics

No, lotteries are for stupid people. When you gamble you know the odds, and they're usually not 1:292M.

You can call it the poor tax, or you can call it the stupid tax. Either works.

[kmhour]

You could less aggressively refer to the lottery as a tax on people who can't do math.

Not that I haven't bought a ticket a few times when the jackpot has been astronomically high. Or participated in a few work pools.

The times I bought them myself, I chalked the small outlay up to the momentary fantasy of how I'd spend the winnings.

The times I participated in the office pool, I rationalized it as insurance against being the only person to show up the next day.

[Mage]

(09-02-2018 12:46 PM)Cation Wrote:  

Mage, I agree on everything you said (I researched the topic of lottery winners a few years ago), apart from the "lottery is for stupid people". That is simply not true.

That is like saying that gamblers usually have below average IQ. Bullshit.

It is true that poor people buy lottery tickets more often than rich people, but it has nothing to do with intelligence.

Source:
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/...mographics

The thing is stupidity is more then just having a low IQ. A person can have high IQ and still be stupid. Actually, there are levels of stupidity only high IQ people are capable of. Some high IQ people use their high IQ to rationalize (aka hamsterize) their emotion driven behavior to extremes impossible to a person with lower IQ and lower abilities of rationalization. Each time a person acts out of a bind habit they have been indoctrinated/brainwashed into they are also acting stupid - no matter how god they are at doing math, solving Rubik's cube or passing IQ tests.

[porscheguy]

I’ll buy when the jackpot gets absurdly high. Even though your chance at winning is essentially zero, I’ll still drop $20 on some tickets. Because my chance is the same as anyone else. And it’s not like I’m skipping meals to do it.

As for scratch offs, I’ll occasionally buy the million dollar tickets for $20 a pop. There’s a catch with them, the odds of winning something are 1 in 3. So yeah, I’ve been known to throw $60 down in one shot. Because if you get 3 at once and they come off the same stack, 80% of the time one of those 3 will pay off. Usually around $30. So in the end, I dropped $30. Big deal. There’s a lot of things in life where you can spend your money as long as you accept that it’s money you’d just as well dump in the shredder. I should also say that I’m not one of those people who stands at the counter for 15 minutes deciding on the ideal scratch off, nor do I have such a profound addiction that I’ve got to scratch it off right there. I’ve sat on tickets for months without checking them.

[Cation]

Of course the chances of winning the lottery are astronomically low.

Yet, somebody wins from time to time.

[spokepoker]

Why can't she be happy with 600k?

[Mage]

(09-03-2018 11:54 AM)spokepoker Wrote:  

Why can't she be happy with 600k?

Because shitty people are never happy.

[Repo]

"He was lucky, but not for half a million dollars," Reddick told the National Post.

The ball's on this cunt to try to tell someone the monetary value of their luck

His name is on the ticket. If I were the judge I'd say fuck it give it all to him for wasting the courts time with her bullshit.

[Cation]

(09-03-2018 11:54 AM)spokepoker Wrote:  

Why can't she be happy with 600k?

She knows it's only Canadian dollars.

[louiebeans]

Because she knew she could have 1.2 million...

^I wrote this before you guys posted but that one made me LOL Cation

[scotian]

Fucking Scotians lol, I say Side Show Bob deserves half, fuck off aunt Barb.

[godfather dust]

This would never happen in my whole extended family, I can only think of 1 out of 50 or whatever that would act so trashy.

Worst case some haggling over the proper arrangement, no way in hell courts get involved. A tight knit family is priceless. $600,000 is nothing if you're a degenerate gambler or drug addict or Tess whatever-the-fuck buying a pool of chocolate to sink into and drown.

Then again I doubt our grand total spend on lotteries and scratch offs is equal to what this woman spends in a year (let's low-ball and call it $2 a day for a little under $800.)

[2 Cool 4 U]

(09-03-2018 11:54 AM)spokepoker Wrote:  

Why can't she be happy with 600k?

Because she might be a gold digger and 600k is chump change to her

[Kona]

The judge froze the dude's money.

So in Canada they can freeze your money like that over stupid shit? No ruling or nothing, just based on the word of that haggard old bitch.

This is why, except for my grandma, I fucking hate old women. The second they hit "old lady" status they can do no wrong. Everybody thinks they're saints. If the do act like bitches "oh they're just old" people say. Try catching one lying and play the dementia card. Nothing more frustrating.

Aloha!

[louiebeans]

Damn thats crazy, they knew he was gonna make moves to make sure that money was his. Can't even use it to get a lawyer...

[Seadog]

This was in my end of the woods and almost everyone I've talked to has heard about the story and invariably think that the old lady is a cunt, and are on the nephew's side.

I just can't imagine why she's being so petty. First off shes like 70, so she probably won't even be around long enough to enjoy it, and second there isn't a whole lot of difference between 600k and 1.2 million to the extent of how it will change your life. Pretty much everything you can do at one level, you can do at the other, but conversely, coming from about 0 where both probably are, 600k would serve to set you up pretty well for the rest of your life as long as you're not a retard with the money. She had such a great opportunity to be the bigger person, literally give her nephew a spectacular head start in life, but instead, now she's a pariah in her community, she's trying to screw family, all so that she can go from "pretty wealthy but not spectacularly" to a slightly larger version of the same.

An uncle of mine won low 6 figures in his early 20s (30ish years ago). He basically bought a house cash, then lived a regular life and got a regular job and had a regular family. But that bump at the start really helped things along. I can't imagine why she's trying to screw her nephew out of that. That quantity of money is almost perfect, because if you don't waste it on coke and rims, it can make life considerably easier, but not so easy that you can afford to turn into an ass.