No doubt you’ve all had the conversation with your friends about what you would do if you won the lottery. How much would you give away to family and friends- how many problems might that cause?. Or would you just spend, spend, spend, and live a life of selfish luxury? According to CNN Money the biggest lottery win ever was $1.586 billion, but it was divided between three people.
A year later in 2017, one woman scooped $758.7 million and she decided to take the lump sum of $480.5 million. If you don’t know, you can take your win divided over a number of years or all at once. Sounds great, but tell us what you think about that after this episode of the Infographics Show, When winning the lottery was a horrible curse. You may have already seen the documentaries, in which lottery winners find themselves surrounded by cunning relatives and friends suddenly emerging from the past, all wanting a piece of the pie. You will know how it can tear families apart, which often sounds like a tale of biblical greed. These are sad stories for sure play here. Superstitious folks get exploited by seers who sell the right numbers; people see winning numbers in dreams, or if someone has, say, a strange-looking fruit growing in their garden, people will queue to pray to it and hope it gives them lottery-luck. The numbers might even appear on the license plates of crashed vehicles. A ghost may even whisper the winning numbers in someone’s ear. So yeah, it’s serious alright. So serious that in 2018 a man called Jirawut Pongphan was absolutely delighted when he found out he had the winning numbers for the lottery and was about to collect $1.8 million. The 42-year-old threw a party and got really drunk, only to wake up and not be able to find his winning tickets. It’s said he became very depressed after that and wasn’t even able to work. He then shot himself in the head. His suicide note read, “I'm really sorry, please don't bully my family, I did win the lottery prize.”. Apparently, the tickets were never found, and no one claimed the prize. After hearing all this, we guess you are thinking you’d be totally different. Are we right? How would you deal with the cash explosion to ensure you didn’t become yet another person cursed by a lottery win? Let us know in the comments!
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