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Why Winning The Lottery Is The Worst Thing That Can Happen To You - YouTube
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No doubt youâve all had the conversation
with your friends about what you would do
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if you won the lottery.
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How much would you give away to family and
friends- how many problems might that cause?.
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Or would you just spend, spend, spend, and
live a life of selfish luxury?
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According to CNN Money the biggest lottery
win ever was $1.586 billion, but it was divided
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between three people.
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A year later in 2017, one woman scooped $758.7
million and she decided to take the lump sum
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of $480.5 million.
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If you donât know, you can take your win
divided over a number of years or all at once.
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Sounds great, but tell us what you think about
that after this episode of the Infographics
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Show, When winning the lottery was a horrible
curse.
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You may have already seen the documentaries,
in which lottery winners find themselves surrounded
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by cunning relatives and friends suddenly
emerging from the past, all wanting a piece
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of the pie.
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You will know how it can tear families apart,
which often sounds like a tale of biblical
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greed.
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These are sad stories for sure.
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The last one might even bring a tear to your
eye.
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10: Return of the killer lover
Aged 42, Doris Murray must have thought she
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was the luckiest woman alive when she picked
up $5 million after winning the Georgia lottery
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in 2007.
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Itâs said her plan was to start a trust
fund for her grandchildren.
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But Murray only got to live with her winnings
one year as her ex-boyfriend came back on
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the scene begging.
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She wasnât interested in getting back with
him or sharing cash with him, and so he stabbed
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her to death.
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He was arrested soon after.
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A lose-lose situation, which we will see is
often the case with lottery greed.
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9: A murderer in the family
A guy called Jeffrey Dampier had a similar
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fate, except this time it was family with
blood on their hands.
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39-year old Dampier was over the moon when
he won $20 million in 1996, and itâs reported
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that he wasnât stingy, either, treating
family and friends with his cash.
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His sister-in-law and her boyfriend got the
idea to take Dampierâs winnings and together
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they kidnapped him and then shot him in the
head.
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The pair were soon arrested.
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Dampierâs widow was later asked what winning
the lottery had done for her husband.
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âI think it is a curse,â she replied.
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8: Donât trust anyone
In 2009 a man with a great name, Abraham Shakespeare,
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won $30 million in the Florida lottery when
he was 42-years old.
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The former laborer didnât spend big at first,
buying just a Nissan Altima and a Rolex watch.
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According to reports he was constantly harassed
by people who wanted some of his cash.
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He once told his brother, âI'd have been
better off broke.
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I thought all these people were my friends,
but then I realized all they want is just
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money.â
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And it got worse.
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He went missing and was later found buried
under someoneâs backyard.
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The killer was a woman heâd befriended who
had told him sheâd help him with his too-much
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money problems.
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Her name was Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore, and sheâs
currently serving a long prison sentence for
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first degree murder.
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7: Drinking to the grave
Itâs happened numerous times, when winners
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have been murdered for their money.
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All the reports of this happening were in
the USA, but self-destruction, well, thatâs
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universal.
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Take the case of Brit, Keith Gough, who won
ÂŁ9 million (about $12 million at todayâs
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rates) in 2005.
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Gough got straight down to the business of
spending, betting big on soccer, horse-racing,
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and apparently drinking himself to oblivion.
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He wasnât the brightest of lucky people,
and got scammed out close to a million dollars
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after giving it to some shady guy to invest.
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He not only ended up selling everything he
had bought, including racehorses, a top of
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the line BMW, his executive box at Aston Villa
Football Club and a large country villa, but
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he got into money troubles.
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He died of a heart attack, and financial problems
and booze were to blame.
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His friends said the lottery virtually killed
him.
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âWinning the money was the worst thing that
happened to him.
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It's very sad,â said one old friend.
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6: Taking your own life
Then thereâs the story of Billie Bob Harrell,
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who won $31million in the Texan lottery in
1997.
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He was followed around like many others by
people with their hands out looking for some
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of his winnings.
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He didnât hide the fact he was rich, though.
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It got so much for the poor guy that he moved
and changed his phone number.
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He also made some terrible financial decisions,
and things got worse when he got divorced.
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It seems it all got too much, and two years
after he won, still with money in the bank,
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he put a gun to his own head.
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Prior to taking his own life he said, âWinning
the lottery is the worst thing that ever happened
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to me.â
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5: Losing everything you need
Another case was the curse of Jack Whittaker,
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a West Virginian who won a staggering $315
million in 2002.
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He wasnât too careful with his cash, having
almost half a million stolen from his car
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where he kept a money-loaded suitcase.
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He later had another $200,000 stolen in a
similar way.
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Then he was hit by grief after losing his
granddaughter to a drug overdose, and then
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her mother- his daughter- died two years later
from a drug overdose.
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Theyâd both been spending his fortune for
him.
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âMy granddaughter is dead because of the
money.
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She was the shining star of my life, and she
was what it was all about for me,â he told
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the press.
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Incredibly, years later he said he had nothing
left, and was a daughter and granddaughter
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down.
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âI wish that we tore the ticket up,â he
said in an interview.
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4: Too much, too young
Over in Scotland a wee lad of 17 called Stuart
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Donnelly won the lottery in 1997 â not a
good year for lottery winners it seems â and
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talked about the pressure of being rich.
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He once told a newspaper that he was scared
to leave the house.
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âIt was very hard to deal with all the attention
I got.
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I even had people camping outside my house.
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It put a huge strain on me and my family."
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He was found dead in his luxury home when
he was 29.
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Itâs thought he died of natural causes,
but the press speculates the lottery win played
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a part in his demise.
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3: Back to the trailer park
Hereâs another story of rags to riches and
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back to rags.
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Evelyn Basehore won $3.9 million back in 1985,
but she had a taste for gambling.
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In 2000 she was back in a trailer park, saying
sheâd gambled all her money away.
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âI won the American dream, but I lost it,
too.
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It was a very hard fall.
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Itâs called rock bottom,â she said.
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2: Thug life
Back in the UK thereâs a man by the name
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Michael Carroll, called a âLottery Loutâ
by the press, which kinda means lottery thug.
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He even called himself âKing of Chavsâ.
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What is a chav?
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Thatâs a long story, but we guess you could
say a chav is a young hoodlum, but more of
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a white trash type of hoodlum.
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Anyway, this young delinquent won a massive
ÂŁ9.7million ($12.7 million) in the UK lottery
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in 2002.
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At the time of his win, when he was just 19,
he was working as a binman (trash collector)
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and was still wearing an electronic tag so
the cops could keep an eye on him.
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Winning didnât stop him from getting in
trouble with the police.
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10 years later and ALL the money was gone,
on what he said was tons of drugs, lots of
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gambling, and âthousands of prostitutes.â
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We are not sure how he, or his poor lungs
and brain managed it, but he said he had a
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$2,300 a day crack cocaine habit.
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What did he have to say about his rise and
fall?
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âThe party has ended and it's back to reality.
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I haven't got two pennies to rub together
and that's the way I like it.
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I find it easier to live off ÂŁ42 dole than
a million.â
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Dole means unemployment benefits.
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He couldnât get away from crime, or criminals,
either.
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As his money was running out some blackmailers
slit the throats of five of his dogs and basically
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ran him out of town, but not before he paid
them over $150,000.
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1: A mortal loss
But weâll leave you with the story of all
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stories, even though we are not sure you can
call it a curse.
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In Thailand the lottery is serious business
for many; itâs a way out of poverty for
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some who donât have many options in life.
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People make merit at temples and pray for
the winning numbers.
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Superstitious folks get exploited by seers
who sell the right numbers; people see winning
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numbers in dreams, or if someone has, say,
a strange-looking fruit growing in their garden,
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people will queue to pray to it and hope it
gives them lottery-luck.
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The numbers might even appear on the license
plates of crashed vehicles.
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A ghost may even whisper the winning numbers
in someoneâs ear.
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So yeah, itâs serious alright.
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So serious that in 2018 a man called Jirawut
Pongphan was absolutely delighted when he
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found out he had the winning numbers for the
lottery and was about to collect $1.8 million.
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The 42-year-old threw a party and got really
drunk, only to wake up and not be able to
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find his winning tickets.
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Itâs said he became very depressed after
that and wasnât even able to work.
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He then shot himself in the head.
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His suicide note read, âI'm really sorry,
please don't bully my family, I did win the
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lottery prize.â.
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Apparently, the tickets were never found,
and no one claimed the prize.
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After hearing all this, we guess you are thinking
youâd be totally different.
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Are we right?
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How would you deal with the cash explosion
to ensure you didnât become yet another
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person cursed by a lottery win?
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Let us know in the comments!Also, be sure
to check out our other video Worst Days In
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