"Lottery Loser"

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/03/jury-lottery-winner-must-share-cash-with-co-workers/1#.T2EWm8U192A

A jury decided today that a New Jersey lottery winner has to share the $38.5 million won with a pool of 5 co-workers, who purchased 12 tickets together for $2 apiece.  The jury couldn’t do anything, however, about their future awkward silences around the water cooler.

The six men were part of a construction team, and the one who took their collective’s money to bought the tickets had claimed the entire prize as his own in 2009.  His integrity caused the other workers to A. file a lawsuit, and B. go back and check the materials in every construction project he had ever worked on.

At least the attempted lottery swindle proves that he was a jerk even before he became rich.

“Sharing the Wealth”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/01/canadian-lottery-winners-gave-it-all-back/1

A Nova Scotia couple who won a Canadian lottery of $11.3 million are giving all of the money but 2% to charities. Conversely, the only American lottery winner who ever gave such a sum to a charity was a man who distributed $500,000 in singles to a stripper named "Charity."

The gesture has prompted our federal government to invite them into the United States just so we can kick them out for being so stupid.

Due to Canada’s socialist tax structure, after paying taxes on the $11.3 million in winnings, the couple will actually owe their government 10 dollars and a tourism commercial.

The charities were thrilled until they realized they were going to be paid in Canadian money, so $11.3 million is really worth, what, about 150 bucks?