There are many lottery news stories around the world every year, and those lucky ones who win the lottery may go from a poor egg to a millionaire or even a billionaire overnight, and their fate is envied by people.
An American man bought a lottery ticket by chance, and he won $314 million. According to the exchange rate, this money is equivalent to 2.1 to 2.2 billion yuan, which is a staggering figure.
It can be said that this man can live a leisurely and luxurious life in any corner of the world with this huge amount of money.
But what is puzzling is that the man would cry every time he mentioned the lottery ticket eight years later.
He even said that it would have been nice to tear the ticket to shreds in the first place, which was very puzzling.
So, how did this man win $314 million, and what did he do to regret winning the lottery?
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300 million jackpot
Nowadays, anyone who wins a huge lottery and goes to the news will wear a mask, or wear a thick mask and sunglasses to hide their face.
Because anyone who wins a huge lottery knows the truth that wealth is not exposed.
In real life, there are many people who still live their previous lives after winning the lottery, and even the closest people around them don't know that he still has a huge amount of money.
In the face of money, some people have lost the concept of family and friendship, and they stubbornly believe that money is the most important part of life.
From an economic point of view, money is indeed an indispensable and important thing in life, but it is not so important that it is compared with family and friendship.
Of course, this still depends on personal thoughts, and in the eyes of some people, money is like dung, and it is simply not worth mentioning compared to family and friendship.
But in the eyes of some people, money can buy everything in the world, including family and love and friendship.
The American man mentioned in the article was a small business owner before winning the lottery and he opened a sewer company.
He is from West Virginia, USA, and is 50 years old, with a very happy family and career. If his life goes on like this, he will have a very happy old age.
The man's name was Whitaker, and when he was visiting a customer's house to maintain a sewer, he saw that the customer was obsessed with the lottery.
Whitaker had heard a lot about lottery jackpots before, but he didn't think so, because Whitaker felt that only hard work could make his life better.
Whitaker was thrilled when he heard the customer say that he had won the lottery in recent years.
He thinks that it won't cost a lot of money to buy a lottery ticket anyway, so it's better to try it out as an entertainment project yourself.
That's what it says. But Whitaker still has a fluke mentality in his heart, everyone wants to make a windfall, and Whitaker is no exception.
He has been buying lottery tickets ever since, and although he has never won a single one, Whitaker is not discouraged because he sees it as a recreational project.
Whitaker's wife didn't expect her husband to win the lottery at all, she felt that he didn't have such good luck in his life, of course, this was just a joke for him.
The wife was happy to see her husband buy a lottery ticket, because his daily work was very heavy, and she hoped that he could relax in this way.
Just before Christmas in 2002, Whitaker bought one last lottery ticket while the lottery shop was closing.
The lottery had a huge prize pool, hundreds of millions, and Whitaker guessed which lucky winner would win the prize, but he didn't think it was his own.
At Christmas dinner, Whitaker eats and watches TV with his daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter and wife.
At that moment, the lottery results flashed on the TV, and Whitaker suddenly remembered that he had bought a ticket of the same type, so he sat down in front of the TV with great interest to see which lucky winner would win.
The whole family enjoyed it, although everyone didn't have the mentality of winning the lottery, and when they checked the first two numbers, everyone was still unimpressed.
But when the fourth number was checked, everyone's faces became solemn.
Because as long as there are two numbers, this ticket can be the jackpot ticket that wins hundreds of millions of dollars. At this time, Whitaker also held his breath, he couldn't believe that the lucky person he was ridiculing might be him.
The last two numbers were finally revealed, and when the numbers on the ticket were checked, the whole family was stunned because Whitaker's ticket was the one that had won.
There was silence for more than a minute, and everyone recovered from their joy and began to cheer randomly.
Whitaker couldn't believe that this could happen to him, he couldn't stop thanking Santa Claus and God, and kissed everyone in the family excitedly, even the family's pet dog got a hug from Whitaker.
After Christmas, Whitaker and his family went to receive the award, and instead of covering their faces, they put on the most decent clothes and made it to the podium.
At the time, Whitaker also demanded that the media publicize his winnings, which he felt would be enough to make him famous throughout the state.
Whitaker proudly claimed that he would establish a charitable foundation and use most of the prize money to help those in need.
His idea was also supported by his family, and in fact, if the money was kept in the bank and nothing was done, it would be enough for the Whitaker family to live comfortably for a lifetime of luxury.
The life of a plutocracy
After becoming rich, Whitaker was different, he was radiant and asked his family to write their wishes.
Everyone wrote about their biggest wishes, some wanted a house, some wanted a sports car, and Whitaker's wife wanted a diamond ring and a trip to a foreign country.
For Whitaker today, these trivial things are just a matter of swiping the card, so he agreed to them one by one.
In addition to satisfying his family's wishes, he also gave the lottery station owner 100,000 US dollars, because Whitaker felt that he had the good fortune to take advantage of the lottery station owner.
Whitok, who became a wealthy man, set up a dedicated charitable foundation, and he donated $15 million, which is a staggering amount.
Some local churches also approached Whitaker and asked him to pay for the church's restoration. In fact, the renovation of these churches was far from worth $7 million, but Whitaker donated $7 million.
He felt that this was a good thing to do good and accumulate virtue, and relatives and friends around him who had not been in touch for several years were also surrounded by him.
They congratulated Whitaker one after another, and then made their own requests.
Of course, most of these requests were related to money, but Whitaker didn't care about the amount of money borrowed from relatives and friends at this time, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were nothing to him.
In addition to relatives and friends, many unrelated people also sent letters to Whitaker, telling them about the difficulties of life and hoping to get help from Whitaker.
Whitaker agreed to reasonable or unreasonable requests, but Whitaker's wife was keenly aware that things were not going right.
She advised her husband to stop spending money so uncontrollably, but Whitaker felt that since he had money, it was no big deal to help others.
In this way, various amounts of dollars were sent out every day, and Whitaker was still not satisfied, and he put a lot of cash on his new sports car.
Even when waiting for the traffic light, he will proudly throw money outside, and even when the traffic police check his driver's license, he will also hand the driver's license and a wad of money pockets to the traffic police.
In the small town where he lived, Whitaker was famous, and people called him a nouveau riche who won the lottery.
There are people in the area who are far richer than Whitaker, and they don't dare to spend more than a billion dollars like that.
Whitaker's small company also closed down because Whitaker felt that he had so much money now that he didn't need to bother to make that little money.
He was not satisfied with throwing money on the street, so he simply paid the media to interview him.
Whitaker, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, told his acceptance speech, and his family realized that Whitaker was really blinded by money, so they advised him to keep a low profile and put his money in the bank to eat interest.
Whitaker still didn't listen, and he told his family that this money is for you to spend as you please, and we won't be able to spend it in a few lifetimes.
You know, Whitaker used to be like this, he used to be a small boss and could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, which is also a lot of money.
But at that time, Whitaker was very economical in spending, and even his granddaughter wanted a bicycle, he had to reprimand him for a long time, but after winning the lottery, Whitaker thought that the money was not earned by his own labor, and he did not feel distressed to spend it.
Whitaker, who is already in his 50s, still goes to bars, night clubs and other places to spend, and he spends a lot of money in them, as if he has regained the feeling of his youth.
That kind of place is mixed, so some people have their eyes on Whitaker.
They kidnapped Whitaker and demanded a ransom, but Whitaker didn't care, took two suitcases of money from the car and threw it over.
Whitaker felt that he had no place to spend his money, so he simply went to the casino and spent a lot of money.
He enjoyed the gambling, and Whitaker's wife was very sensible, she felt that her husband could not go on like this, but Whitaker was particularly irritable.
He said to his wife, I am a rich man now, you don't care so much about me. In a fit of rage, Whitaker's wife filed for divorce from him and took a large chunk of his fortune.
Families are ruined
Originally, Whitaker's granddaughter was a good student with excellent character and academics, but since she was exposed to a life of luxury, she has been out of control.
Some gangsters saw that she was rich, so they lured her to take drugs, and Whitaker saw that his granddaughter was so uncomfortable for taking drugs, so he gave his granddaughter unlimited money for drug use.
In just four years, Whitaker's granddaughter became an addict and died of a drug overdose.
Whitaker's daughter also suffered from a variety of illnesses due to excessive sadness, and Whitaker's son-in-law was very resentful of what his father-in-law had done after he had money, even if Whitaker wanted to give a large sum of money to his daughter's family as compensation, Whitaker's son-in-law was unmoved.
He insisted on severing all ties with Whitaker, who had lost his affection, gambling in casinos and getting drunk in bars.
Until one day, the owner of the casino told him that he had not paid his gambling bills for many days. When Whitaker was ready to swipe the card, he found that the balance in the card was insufficient.
He also suspected that he was drunk and misunderstood, but after being reminded by the people around him, he found out that he really had no money.
Seeing that Whitaker had no money, the casino owner immediately sent someone to his house to take all the valuable things. The locals also couldn't believe that Whitaker had squandered all 314 million.
Dejected, he walked down the streets, crying as he watched the houses set on fire by the thugs and burned to the ground.
Whitaker, who was in his 60s, had to work as a coolie on the docks in order to pay off his gambling debts, and everyone around him questioned and sneered at him, and everyone used him as a negative example.
Someone else joked, Whitaker, are you here to experience life, my rich man!
Whitaker had nothing to say, and when the media interviewed him about his experience over the past few years, Whitaker said that famous quote with tears in his eyes.
He said that if I had torn up that ticket the first time I won the lottery, then I would still be very happy now.
But there is no ifs in the world, and in just eight years, more than 2 billion yuan has been squandered by Whitaker.
He spends money very quickly, and everyone can't help but squander it after winning such a big prize, but there must be a degree, otherwise he will end up ruined like Whitaker!
Today, Whitaker has disappeared, some say he is dead, others say he went to a local nursing home.
But in any case, his wife will not care about him anymore, because she has already broken her husband's heart!
Resources
The 2.1 billion huge sum of money among the elderly has been ruined in 6 years: it turns out that all the gifts of fate have already been secretly marked with a price-Huanqiu.com, released on January 29, 2019