Another lottery winner goes to prison
Thomas Turnour won $10 million in the California SuperLotto game. Unfortunately, becoming wealthy doesn’t prevent you from doing stupid things.
Turnour was driving his pickup truck, drunk, and smashed into the back of a car that was stopped at a red light. The impact of the crash pushed the car into two other vehicles, and three people were killed.
Turnour pleaded guilty gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and also to the charge of causing injury while driving intoxicated. He was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison.
In addition, he was sued by the victims’ families, and settled that lawsuit for more than $2 million.
Does it really take 9 months to prepare before claiming your winnings?
I guess you could say Lynn Hagerbrant is a very cautious person. In fact, she is so cautious and conservative that some people would be surprised to find out that she plays the lottery at all.
She knew she had won the jackpot of $8.8 million the day after the drawing. But she waited almost 9 months before turning in the winning ticket.
What did she do during that time?
Mostly, she consulted with her lawyers. She wanted to be sure she did the right thing so that her family’s estate was protected, and so that her children would be guaranteed added security for the future.
So much time had gone by since the drawing, lottery officials were wondering if the winning prize was going to go unclaimed (that has happened about a dozen times for the CT lottery in the past 25 years). They were even planning a new media campaign to try to find the winner. That’s when Hagerbrant stepped forward to make her claim.
She said most of the money will go into a “nest egg”. Maybe she has read some of the lottery horror stories on this blog, and learned from other people’s mistakes.
Hey, maybe this guy really DOES have a system for winning
If you were going to buy 4 lottery tickets, wouldn’t you buy 4 different sets of numbers? That way, you have 4 chances of winning in case only one of those sets came up.
The only exception to that would be if you knew what the winning numbers were going to be. Then, of course, you would buy only that set of numbers.
That is what Verlyn Adamson and Judith Adamson did. Verlyn says he has a system for predicting the winning Lottery numbers.
The couple went to 4 different convenience stores, and bought a ticket at each store. All 4 tickets purchased were for the same set of numbers, for the same drawing.
Their winnings total almost $1 million (and that’s after taxes). Not bad for a $4 investment.
If they wrote a book about how to win the lottery, it would be destined to be a big seller. You can’t argue with success.
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Church refuses to accept lottery winnings from member
First Baptist Orange Park, in Orange Park, Florida (a suburb of Jacksonville) won’t be benefiting from the lottery winnings of one of its members, Robert Powell.
Powell recently won $6 million in the Florida Lottery, and wanted to give $600,000 of his winnings (a 10% tithe) to his church. First Baptist Orange Park Pastor David Tarkington would not accept it. He also would not comment, citing confidentiality of members’ gifts. A safe assumption is that the church does not condone gambling, so does not want to accept gambling winnings as part of their support.
Most churches maintain a position against any form of gambling. But some would still accept the money from a member who won it that way.
“Wrong” lottery numbers won this couple the $3 million jackpot
Bobby Guffey has played the same numbers in the Indiana Lottery for years. The numbers represent various ages and birth dates.
Recently when he bought a ticket, it was dark inside the store and he didn’t have his reading glasses. When he got outside in the daylight, he realized that the last number he chose was an accidental 48 when he meant for it to be a 46.
That mistake won him $3 million.
Interestingly, after he realized he bought the wrong numbers, he went back inside the store to buy another ticket with the “right” numbers. That ticket won $1000, because it matched 5 of the 6 correct numbers.
“My wife says it pays to be blind,” Guffey said .
A little luck helps too.