PSA: Don't win the lottery

[coldmeat]

What kind of name is Abraham Shakespeare?

 

[ModerateRepZero]

I don't think winning the lottery makes most winners' lives any better.

that's *somewhat* true only because money changes people's situations. now that they have money lottery winners think they have business acumen and make bad investments or are involved in failed companies, or they get deluged with family/friends requesting money....in most cases, unless you go to alot of trouble you can't expect to remain anonymous, so the only security against losing your money is to put aside your money and spend it carefully.

if you give away / spend money faster than it comes in, the end result will be losing money, if not bankruptcy.

http://www.lottoreport.com/AOLSadbuttrue.htm

 

[Miramonti]

What kind of name is Abraham Shakespeare?

Its Hebrew-African.

 

[thegimp03]

Brutal...should look to the trucker he had the court date with for more info...

I agree with another poster that something doesn't seem right when the guy hadn't been seen since April and was reported missing in November. That seems like a long time to not know of someone's whereabouts.

 

[Anubis]

Just buy an abandoned missile silo from the US government. Bonus points if it has the retractable doors still in place. Hire a landscaper to hide the door and points of entry, invite the landscaper inside, kill him (you know, so that knowledge of your location stays secret), entomb him in some catacombs or something, and enjoy the quiet.

IIRC it was the Smithsonian that had a really cool article a few years ago about a guy and his wife that lived in one, they didn't kill the landscaper but it was really cool to read about

 

[holden j caufield]

honestly you should have a moat around your house and a drawbridge. That should be the fckin american dream. A bridge and moat.

 

[holden j caufield]

I agree with another poster that something doesn't seem right when the guy hadn't been seen since April and was reported missing in November. That seems like a long time to not know of someone's whereabouts.

you just described a good number of ATOTers, do you think ATOT IM buddies are going to report the missing?

 

[hanoverphist]

IIRC it was the Smithsonian that had a really cool article a few years ago about a guy and his wife that lived in one, they didn't kill the landscaper but it was really cool to read about

http://www.missilebases.com/

theres amarket for them, as well as missile bases. if i had the cash id probably look into one too.

 

[Spineshank]

Missing since April, not reported until November? Sorry, I'm missing something here I guess. I'll take Lotto winnings of that size any day. Then I'll employ Kimbo as my bodyguard. Problem solved.

More money = less problems. More money more problems is something that we say to make ourselves feel better for never truly getting ahead in life.

Everyone knows this.

Kimbo isnt a good fighter though...everyone knows this.

 

[SunSamurai]

I don't think winning the lottery makes most winners' lives any better.

Hows that fantasy land you're in?

 

[Hacp]

I don't think winning the lottery makes most winners' lives any better.

Sir, when you win the lottery, I'll be glad to take that fat wad of misery off your hands.

 

[RaistlinZ]

What I don't get is how do the police get a random "tip" that someone might be buried beneath 5 feet of solid concrete? What, someone was just walking thier dog one day and thought "Hm, this seems like the ideal spot to bury someone in concrete. I wonder what's under here."

Obviously, anyone who puts in a tip to police like that will be presumed a suspect.

 

[caddlad]

so basically you're going to hide in your house while the zombies lay siege?

Damn straight!

 

[Rubycon]

Burying people in concrete is so 1960. I mean don't they realize that it just preserves the evidence and someone will eventually find it?

There's far better ways of disposal that get rid of things you don't want found forever rather quickly. But that's like talking about Fight Club.

 

[Zargon]

IIRC it was the Smithsonian that had a really cool article a few years ago about a guy and his wife that lived in one, they didn't kill the landscaper but it was really cool to read about

it happens all the time actually.

killing the landscaper is stupid anyways, its an old military installation, so the damn blueprints are somewhere at the pentagon Im sure anyways

http://www.missilebases.com/

 

[Schadenfroh]

Did he use the numbers?

 

[rasczak]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/03/lottery.winner.slaying.arrest/index.html?hpt=T2

looks like they may have found the killer, or at least the person who organized it. quite sad really.

 

[waggy]

sad.

i wonder though IF he really stold the ticket from the guy? if so i really don't have much sympathy. ok i don't anyway