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    Wow Krystian, a man who was already a businessman and a millionaire and should have known how to handle his money really messed up after getting the lottery. Sheesh!
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    Woman wins lottery, leaves town without tithing



    HOBOKEN — Martha Givens, a faithful member of Walnut Methodist Church, won the $89 million New Jersey state lottery Tuesday, then left town, surprising her longtime pastor, Duane Marshall.

    “I guess the right words would be ‘deeply disappointed,'” Marshall said. Immediately after the news of Givens’ winning broke, he and the board had hired an architectural firm to build a new, multi-million dollar youth center.

    As a church of 124, the youth center couldn’t be built without Givens’ tithe from the lottery winnings.

    “They were rubbing their hands together with glee in that room,” said a dissenting board member. “Martha’s been so consistent through the years, they felt this was money in the bank. I warned them she might turn tail. Eighty-nine million is a lot of money.”

    Family members were keeping mum about Givens’ whereabouts, though one self-described “black sheep” cousin said the grandmother of two was “somewhere in the Caribbean, dancing, hitting the senior singles bars and doing all sorts of things Methodists don’t normally do.” She was uncertain if and when Givens would return. A sign in Givens’ lawn indicated the house is for sale, and her front door was covered with “please call me” notes from old friends and acquaintances.

    But Marshall hasn’t given up hope.

    “Martha, if you read this, we’ll take five percent, one percent, whatever you’ll give,” he said. “The Martha Givens Youth Center won’t be a reality without you.” •

  3. #13
    Shhh, listen...anyone else hear a bird? Why yes, it is a bird, a lark I believe:


  4. #14
    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    Its scary how some folk handle money, I was just reading this account of how a successful businessman who already was a millionaire mishandled his winnings:


    Lottery Winner Jack Whittaker's Losing Ticket

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    Jack Whittaker, a 55-year-old contractor from Scott Depot, W. Va., had worked his way up from backcountry poverty to build a water-and-sewer-pipe business that employed over 100 people. He was a millionaire several times over. But when he awoke at 5:45 a.m. on Christmas morning in 2002, everything he'd built in his life held only passing significance next to a scrap of paper in his worn leather wallet—a $1 Powerball lottery ticket bearing the numbers 5, 14, 16, 29, 53, and 7.

    Whittaker had purchased his lucky ticket, along with two bacon-stuffed biscuits, at the C&L Super Serve convenience store in the town of Hurricane on Dec. 24, 2002. That night, Whittaker went to bed thinking he'd missed winning the lottery by one digit—only to wake up on Christmas Day to find that the number had been broadcast incorrectly and the winning ticket was in his hand. "I got sick at my stomach, and I just was [at] a loss for words and advice," he later remembered. When he returned to the convenience store on Monday, he quietly told the woman at the cash register he'd won. "No you didn't," she replied. "You're not excited enough to win the lottery."

    The day after Christmas, Whittaker put on his Stetson cowboy hat, black suit, and white shirt—he always dressed this way—and appeared on live TV together with his wife Jewel, daughter Ginger, and 15-year-old granddaughter Brandi Bragg, to accept a check for $10 million from West Virginia Governor Bob Wise. It was the first portion of a jackpot that had been building since Halloween. On Christmas Eve, when he bought the ticket, the prize stood at $280 million. A late surge of buyers pushed it to $314.9 million, making Whittaker the winner of the biggest single undivided jackpot in lottery history...

    http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles...-losing-ticket
    If anyone kept reading at the link they would have seen this:

    "The very first thing I'm going to do is sit down and make out three checks to three pastors for 10 percent of this check," Whittaker announced in a half-hour press conference watched by many citizens of his state..."

    Seems the man was a tither but that's not going to help you much if you keep indulging in a lifestyle of debauchery.

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