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| Wild Willie wants his old life back | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Wed Sep 25, 2013 1:17 pm (298 Views) | |
| wissaboo | Wed Sep 25, 2013 1:17 pm Post #1 |
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see? winning the lottery isn't such a good thing
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/25/20663854-the-drama-is-nonstop-powerball-winner-wild-willie-wants-his-old-life-back?lite |
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| Mojochi | Wed Sep 25, 2013 1:39 pm Post #2 |
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Fuck fame. Fame is for the emotionally disabled
I would be like a blip on the radar that just stopped blipping that day. If they forced an interview on me, & asked "What do you plan to do?" my answer would be "Stop talking to people... Right now". Then I'd walk away |
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| stigmata | Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:22 pm Post #3 |
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It's a hard life |
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| Thy'lek Shran | Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:59 pm Post #4 |
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I would try to invest wisely and move away. |
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| AWOLangel | Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:18 pm Post #5 |
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that's why they shouldn't anounce the names of the winners. the guy in south carolina (or wherever) that won last week is wisely staying anonymous. |
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln | |
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| wissaboo | Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:27 pm Post #6 |
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I don't think you have the option of staying annonymous in Canada. |
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| AWOLangel | Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:40 pm Post #7 |
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it's the same in some states here too. |
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln | |
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| spocklet | Wed Sep 25, 2013 11:26 pm Post #8 |
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Live long and prosper.....!!
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Easy enough - just work out what the amount would be, then make sure you only spend that amount. Really, those people who chase fame deserve all the crap that goes with it !! |
| R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro | |
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| wissaboo | Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:15 am Post #9 |
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I'm not sure how winning the lottery really equals chasing fame..
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| spocklet | Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:58 pm Post #10 |
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Live long and prosper.....!!
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It's the same thing, every winner has the opportunity to remain anonymous. When you see them with the winning ticket or whatever, on tv, it's because they themselves have wanted the fame and notoriety that goes with it !! |
| R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro | |
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| wissaboo | Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:00 pm Post #11 |
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Like I said above, winners here are not allowed to remain annonymous. And awol said it's true in a lot of states too. It's good advertising for the people running the lottery. |
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| jespah | Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:10 pm Post #12 |
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No matter what, Wild Willie (I keep calling him Wet Willie in my head) can just, I dunno, bank his $$ and have a certain # of $$ transferred from savings to checking every other week, and pretend he's back on a regular old paycheck. I bet his bucks are tied up in investments he doesn't understand, or maybe it's stuffed in his Posture-pedic. Notoriety? Oh, cry me a river. If it's so dang burdensome, he can also give what's left to charity. He'll be in the papers for a day until the next crisis. There ya go, problem solved. You're welcome. And get off my lawn! |
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| Mojochi | Thu Sep 26, 2013 4:07 pm Post #13 |
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Actually, once the initial hype is done, for the sake of advertising the lottery & such. He can choose to drop out of the limelight at any time Famous people stop being famous all the time. It might not be easy & it's a commitment, but ultimately, lots of money does not equal fame. It's not like he's Michael Jackson or Elvis. I don't even know what he looks like. Going off the radar is not impossible As far as tons of distant relatives, or old "Friends" coming out of the woodwork to mooch... you have a choice there too, you can help or tell them to fuck off. Guess which group the majority will fall into if it were me. I'll donate to legitimate charities, thank you. All the glommers were not even in your life a week earlier, so wtf do you care if they think you're an asshole? & the would be moochers who were in your life just got bumped up to the "get lost" list Maybe it's dickish, but winning the lottery doesn't suddenly mean my full time job just became donating to every person who ever knew my name. Nowhere on my birth certificate do I get referred to as "Gravy Train" |
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| wissaboo | Thu Sep 26, 2013 4:43 pm Post #14 |
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my brother in law won a lottery. It was less than a million dollars, but quite a sum. His name was published on the lottery website. He has an unlisted number but my husband has the same first initial as him. We got a letter from some woman in california asking hi to pay off her student loans. |
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| Mojochi | Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:30 am Post #15 |
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Right. That'll happen to anyone that is publicly known to have come into money, but look at it statistically. How many people hunted either of you down? between 1-6? & those in a piece of mail you can ignore, and has no real impact on your life. So statistically (Because the money was more), he could perhaps have maybe 5-10 times that many, if he lived the same way you all do Even being listed & campaigned around for a short time, you can still make it out without dramatic life altering consequences, if that's what you truly want But dude here is doing an interview about the rigors of his famous life. Isn't that kind of a double standard? They also paid him for that interview. I'm sure he's been paid for more than just that one. One thing some lottery winners do is make appearances & do interviews as a way to make more money. Ride the gravy train to all stops Ultimately, fame is damn tempting. You can make money really easily, & people are eager to treat you special, & the price is that people wants things in return If I won big lottery dollars, apart from my nuclear family & like 1 or 2 close friends, no one would know about it, unless they happen to find out from some list or mandatory appearance I was forced into, & I'd be diligently looking to distance myself from that kind of stuff post-haste Step one would be to be as uninteresting as humanly possible. After reading this thread, I googled this dude, & did in fact find a picture of him with his big truck & big gun & big Duck Dynasty beard, doing a little bit of showing off. You wouldn't see me doing that crap. I would not like the attention Step 2, if you have the resources, relocate... quietly. Step 3, bank or invest. Don't be captain life of the party. Ultimately, we'll never know how many people win lottery stakes & never go through this dude's issues... because we don't even know who they are. I'd be one of those |
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| wissaboo | Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:22 am Post #16 |
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Oh this isn't the sort of thing you can keep a secret. Word spreads fast. Even with a small win |
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| spocklet | Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:13 pm Post #17 |
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Live long and prosper.....!!
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In the UK you can specify no publicity, and I understand it's all done very quietly. That would be us, nobody would know about it. But considering the life we already have, that wouldn't be too much of a problem !! |
| R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro | |
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