Cowboy Lottery Winner Gets $232M Powerball Jackpot
23 year old cowboy lottery winner Neal Wanless struck gold with the Powerball on Friday, with a massive win of $232 million. And what a deserving winner too.
Good kid cowboy Neal is single and lives with his parents on the family 320 acre ranch near Mission, Todd County, where they raise cattle, sheep and horses. Rural Todd County in South Dakota is the seventh poorest county in the USA.
The family don’t own a phone, and even had a mobile home repossessed last year. They were in danger of losing their house until Neil had a very lucky day in town.
Bought Tickets Bought In Winner!
Driving into town for some livestock feed, Neil took a chance on $15 worth of tickets for 27 May Powerball draw. He couldn’t help but smile when he explained he bought the tickets at a convenience store in a town called Winner.
The local Mission people and friends were truly happy for Neil and his family, as wearing a black cowboy hat and a huge smile he accepted his giant check in a ceremony on Friday. “I hope they enjoy their money”, said county assessor Cathy Vrbka and family friend, “they work hard, backbreaking hard work.”
What Will Cowboy Lotto Winner Neil Do With The Money?
He spent the last week working on the ranch and plans to continue that lifestyle. Although he did tell lottery officials he plans to buy himself a bigger spread.
He will also repay the kindness the town have shown to his family. “My family has been helped by the community, and I intend to repay that help many times over”, he said, “I want to thank the Lord for giving me this opportunity and blessing me with this great fortune. I will not squander it” .
$88.5 Million In The Bank
Neil chose the lump sum option for his winnings, so even after taxes are deducted, he walks away with a new bank balance of $88.5 million. Making him one of the biggest lottery jackpot winners in US lottery history.
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Winner Of Florida Lottery Opens Nude Dude Ranch!
He won a cool $3.3 million jackpot, so what did winner of the Florida lottery Tim Clements decide to do with his money?
Open a nude dude ranch of course!
Tim proudly opened the doors for business just a few weeks ago using his winnings from the Florida lottery, but local Brooksville neighbors saw his new sign and started asking questions. And county code enforcement officers were drafted in to check out the ranch.
And unfortunately Tim didn’t realise that providing B&B facilities and spaces for RV’s needed local authority permission, so clothing optional ‘CJ Dude Ranch’ is in danger of closure before it even gets started.
Even if Tim gets permissions he’s still up against a county ‘no public nudity’ policy in force since 2002. But he’s still optimisitic, “my place is so private,” he said, “and I’m always out washing the bus in the nude.”
So the nude cowboy dream is not over just yet. His website still proudly proclaims:-
We are Clothing Optional but you must wear pants and boots to ride the horses.
That rule is a no-brainer right? As Tim says, “you don’t want blisters on your behind, do you?”.
And if you can’t open a nude ranch when you win the Florida lottery, then there’s just no justice in life is there 
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Bittersweet day for lottery winner
Glen Bell will remember this day, for the best of reasons and the worst of reasons.
Bell is a bus driver, 52 years old. He recently matched his winning numbers in the 649 Lotto, and won $4.3 million. That’s the good news.
The bad news came as Bell and his wife Treva were on their way to the Lottery offices to claim their winnings - they got news of Treva’s father dying unexpectedly. The mood went from elated to somber very quickly.
The Bell’s have decided to use their winnings to improve the lives of others, and they will start with their 3 adult children by buying them houses. They will also pay off their own mortgage. Bell plans to keep his bus-driving job for a little while, until they figure out what to do with the rest of the money.
Lottery winner shops for a car
A British lottery winner goes car shopping. Hmmm…A Ferrari or an Aston-Martin? Tough decision.
Curse of the lottery
This is one Powerball winner who wishes he had never won the lottery.