Wow I have to pick Jeff for like, literally, um, one happiness I need to order for gonna be right now. So I'll give you guys this: from accidentally throwing a three million pound lottery ticket in the bin to spending an entire 16 million dollar prize in under 90 days, these are the absolute dumbest lottery winners of all time. Beginning with Jose Antonio Cuatok who almost lost his entire Lottery Fortune after getting someone else to claim the money for him, you say when Jose won the 750 000 jackpot back in 2010. he was living in the US illegally, so Jose asked his boss to claim the prize on his behalf as he feared he couldn't claim the money without potentially facing legal trouble and deportation. This worked out perfectly until Jose's boss began to falsely state that he was the one who had actually purchase the ticket. Taking legal action against his boss was risky given Jose wasn't supposed to be in the country at all. However, given he had security camera footage of him purchasing the ticket, Jose did so was able to prove that he was the rightful owner to the 750 000 prize only only 250 000 this went to taxes. another 250 000 was spent on court fees and throughout the legal process. Jose was jailed for drunk driving and was deported back to Guatemala as soon as he won the court case. However, at least Jose Antonio Cuatok got to keep some of his winnings as Denise Rossi wasn't so fortunate. Denise won a jackpot of 1.3 million back in 1996. she'd been married to Thomas Rossi for over 25 years. this is one of their relationship. Yep, if you're married and won the lottery, you get a quarter, only half of taxes, half a buck and was apparently lacking in transparency as Denise didn't tell her husband about the win and instead filed for divorce only 11 days. I was afraid to tell Thomas because I knew he would try to take the money away from me I went to the Lottery Commission office and told them I was married but contemplating divorce. they told me to file before I got my first check, which I did. Denise was initially successful in hiding the money from her now ex-husband As for a whole two years after their divorce, Thomas had no idea that Denise had ever won the lottery. However, in May 1999 39, a letter was sent to Thomas's home address asking if Denise was interested in a lump sum buyout of her lottery winnings. This was the first Thomas knew about the lottery prize. He confirmed that Denise was a winner with the California Lottery and given they were still married at the time of the win, Thomas launched a lawsuit stating that he was entitled to half of the prize money if the judge specifically found that Denise's failure to disclose the lottery winnings constituted fraud oppression and Malice and as a result, the trial court awarded Thomas a hundred percent more winnings, which left Denise with less than nothing considering she also had to pay for wait. wait I Gotta I got a BRB yeah I Knew that was possible. Wait, a court can say you wait I Didn't know that the court could change the outcome of things like that her own legal phase. However, Denise's loss of 1.3 million was still nothing in comparison to evil and Adams dubbed the luckiest Woman in America Evelyn Adams became the first person like like you would think like, okay I Went I bought the ticket I get 100 Okay, this happens I get this amount I didn't know that that the court could say you know what dude off you get zero and then he gets all of it I Didn't know that was like history to win the lottery twice initially for 3.9 million in October 1985 before winning another 1.4 million. Only four months later, with the probability of this win being approximately one in 17.3 trillion Evelyn seemed to realize that she had no Lottery luck left by stating that she was gone. Okay, I Get it. I Get it. Now this is not making sense. Dream's mother playing God is dead began to make various businesses, including the convenience store where the lucky tickets had been purchased. Well, you could argue that this was a smart move Evelyn Still hadn't fixed her gambling problem and instead of buying more lottery tickets, she instead took the rest of her weddings to the Atlantic City casinos where she lost her entire remaining Fortune to the slot machines without any money left. Her businesses failed one after the other and by 2012 Evelyn was living in a trailer park. While stating to the media, winning the lottery isn't always what it's cracked up to be Kelly Rogers likely had a similar Outlook as after winning over 1.8 million pounds at the age of only 16, her life was also ruined initially. Kelly stated I will not go wild in spend loads I'm going to take some advice and see an accountant. Hopefully I will make us all comfortable I want to help my family but I won't change I Just want a normal home nothing Posh I Just want a normal car as well. However, as soon as you receive the money, Kelly instead spent 11 500 pounds on two boob jobs, 300 000 pounds on clothes. Okay, actually, how do you play into any counterclouds chat? because I've been spending like crazy and it's not even that much I couldn't even find it too many times on these pictures as well. makeup and Tattoos no shots 85 000 pounds on top of the range sports cars Kelly Spent deferred the 250 000 pounds on holidays to look 85 000 top of the range sports car uh what the hey? I don't I I don't think he made the Range Rover is top of the line Sports vacations including Mexico and Euro Disney 118 000 pounds on gifts to former boyfriends, 190 000 pounds in unreturned loans to friends and family members, and 50 500 pounds on solicitors fees, all of which being purchased while she was still in high school. Kelly did make a few smart purchases such as an 180 000 pound Bungalow and a 96 000 pound home for her mum. However, by the end of the year, Kelly was back to square one being on welfare with only 2 000 pounds left in her account. She since stated it was too much money for someone so young. Even if you say your life won't change, it does and often, not for the better. Yeah! I Just wish I was a bit older at the time of winning it because I think at 16, you're still just a child and overnight you've just got to grow up and become an adult, which is probably why she's now in it. I Kind of agree a little bit, not entirely because I think you can teach financial literacy to your children pretty easily. Um, throughout their life I feel like I knew a little bit how many were worked when I was like dude dude like 12. advocate for raising the UK's legal gambling age from 16 to 18.

Kelly Rogers certainly spent her money poorly. However, at least she had the chance to spend it as 25 year old. Amanda Clayton from Detroit was no longer alive at the end of her spending spree when Amanda won the million dollar jackpot back in 2011. it seemed as though her life had been changed overnight. However, her win quickly became controversial after the media learned that she was still collecting food stamps and benefit payments despite having won the lottery Detroit woman is now the second Lotto winner in the state to keep taking food stamps after hitting it big and Amanda Clayton who won a million bucks and took home a seven hundred thousand dollar lump sum the 24 year old says even though she now owns two homes, she figured she was still allowed to use a bridge card after being confronted about the behavior. Amanda Had the following: I thought I had to be honest, it gets unbek conflicted I feel like he shouldn't get mad at that that much. Compared to people who hoard all the money and will just stack like crazy and don't do at all like, um, it doesn't go back into the economy, this goes straight back to the economy in taxes, this really goes half to the people having the economy which is other people, it's whatever I mean they would cut me off but since they didn't I thought maybe it was okay because I'm not working and surely there are so you okay I don't think he's understand the problem of like the accurate people that hold all the money I think being like a multi-millionaire whatever compared to like the billionaires who have hundreds of hundreds of millions, it's not even close. The same problem it's not even remotely goes to it after she was charged money hoarding. I Don't think I don't know what that means when you're hoarding money. These people are stacking like full country Gdps. Literally, full country Gdps in one family. Yes, like that's that's what. God Hoarding In our current Qcls, any chance of welfare efforts that was ordered to pay back the 5 500 worth of food stamps she'd received while Amanda quickly paid the 5 500 back, she never got the chance to spend the rest of the money, as only six months later, she would unfortunately overdose. That's a great generational wealth. Okay, some people have so much money. Okay, they could have families. always a year. four thousand. Okay, and it wouldn't do a dent in their anything. What are you talking about? months to spend? the rest Did it. Imagine By financial literacy and being financially illiterate, it doesn't It doesn't make sense. It's only six months later. she would unfortunately overdose in one of her two homes. He said she was tormented by the fame and the problems that came with winning the lottery. What's the point of having one if you're not gonna have happiness? He said she didn't want the money anymore and bought things for her family and set up college funds for her children. He says she only had 67 thousand dollars of her winnings Left the end to Amanda Clayton's story was somewhat unexpected. However, a two-second glance at Ryan McGee is more than enough to predict that this Lottery Win would eventually end in disaster after winning 6.3 million pounds back in 2008 at the age of 27. Ryan was placed on the Sunday Times Top 100 Rich List for young people. He purchased a luxury mansion in his home country of Ireland which featured five bedrooms, an indoor swimming pool, a film, and a two-car garage where he kept his brand new Ferrari for ew, bro, this is depressing. No swimming pool, a full Champagne Bar and a two-car garage where he kept. it's like the background sorry Four Five Eight Italia However, as you might expect, this is where things began to go terribly. Only three years after buying the Ferrari Ryan slipped off the road, crashing the car into a field, mainly because he was driving in the snow. Locals were amazed Ryan was driving the Ferrari in that weather, especially when he had a more suitable Range Rover he could use the Pharaoh is not understood to be running on winter tires, which while costing around 4 400 pounds, hugely boosts grip and handling in icy conditions. Ryan's property development business then dissolved, which was accompanied by a divorce from his wife and the sale of his luxury home. Then, two years later, Ryan McGee was pulled over driving an uninsured Ford Focus without a license. However, the most interesting part is that he had to claim legal aid, which is a service for those who are unable to afford a lawyer now. Ryan McGee was a complete idiot with his money. However, he still looks like Albert Einstein when compared to Martin Todd Oh no. His wife K won 3 million pounds back in 2001. they didn't go into claim the prize because well, they had no idea that they were winners. They'd purchased a ticket in passing, completely forgotten about it, and would only come to realize that they would wait. Chat guys, this is not for me. Okay guys. I Promise you guys, probably it's not for me. Yeah, I'm asking for a friend of mine. Okay, what happens if you win a lottery ticket, right? You win it. Oh well. I won, then put it in your pocket. You're like oh man man, I don't know I I Don't remember, we bought that and you get divorced and then you're like oh gee whiz, what is this? Oh my God I think I won the lottery dude and then you cash it in. What happens then or not? we're the winners. After hearing about the unclaimed prize over six months later, the main problem was that at some point the ticket had been misplaced or thrown out completely. Despite frantically searching, the pair couldn't find their ticket, but was sure they had won because the jackpot numbers match the ones they used every week. Computer records in their local launders proved K really had purchased the ticket and the thrilled pair rushed to tell Lottery organizer Camelot to claim their prize, but they fell victim to a little-known rule stating lost tickets must be reported within 30 days. After 45 days of deliberation, Camelot told the devastated couple that they would not be collecting the jackpot and as a result, the couple's marriage eventually came to an end. We'd only known each other for two years and the lottery ordeal quickly highlighted our differences. All we did was Becca Sadly, both of us agreed we should split and K moved out. Man seems to have convinced himself that losing the ticket ended up being a good thing. Having stated for a long time I lost sight of who I was and what I believed in. But I can honestly say I'm glad I didn't get the 3 million. Now there is no guarantee it would me happiness and if there's anyone else who would have agreed with this statement, it definitely would have been the most miserable lottery winner of all time. William Post when William won a 16.2 million dollar jackpot back in 1988, he had just 2.46 in his bank account and was able to purchase the lucky ticket by selling a ring for forty dollars to a local pawn shop. This, in conjunction with the time he'd spent in jail for cashing invalid checks. Dude. When the RTP finally hits awful money management skills and acted as foreshadowing for how poorly his Lottery Win was eventually going to be spent only 84 days after receiving the 16.2 million, William Post had spent the entire fortune on a boat at least for a restaurant in Florida I used car lot as well as a private jet. However, even after all of the money had been spent, Post took on a further 500 000 loan to purchase a mansion in Oil City Pennsylvania The problem was that William hadn't actually purchased the original ticket himself and I'd rather given the money to his girlfriend who meaning that Post now owed 5.4 million to his ex-girlfriend from the 16.2 million that he no longer had. Since Post was unable to make this payment, the judge ordered that his bank account be frozen until he was able to come up with the money. However, before he was able to sell enough stuff to pay the 5.4 million, William was arrested and ordered to serve a 6 to 24 month prison term for an assault charge from six years prior. Toward the end of his life, Post was on his seventh marriage with over a million dollars in debt on food stamps at a job paying 450 per month. However, William Post still doesn't have the craziest Lottery Win story of all time That total goes to Andrew Jackson Whittaker whose life would change Forever After Winning 315 million back in 2002.

unlike almost everyone else in this video, Whitaker was actually quite successful prior to winning the lottery, having built up a net worth of over 17 million with the assistance of his Construction company. And while this would imply that he was in a position to manage a large lottery win, this isn't what would happen. There's no shot. I could instantly donated 10 of the winnings to churches Christian groups and spent a further 14 million establishing the Jack Whitaker Foundation which provided free food and clothing for low-income families in West Virginia Obviously, you're doing God's work with all this money. Yes, I am I'm helping a lot of people and I plan to help a lot more. He then drove back to the convenience store where he had purchased the ticket before giving the clerk a forty four thousand dollar check 123 000 house and a brand new Jeep Cherokee which was followed by Whitaker buying himself a Lamborghini in which he'd drive around his neighborhood throwing money out of the window. After flaunting this wealth, his Lamborghini was broken into where Thief stole 545 000 in cash. However, this apparently wasn't much of a wake-up call as his car was then broken into for the second time, resulting in the loss of a further two hundred thousand dollars cash. Jack Whittaker's granddaughter passed away, his daughter then passed away, which was followed by a divorce with his wife. and now you've lost your granddaughter. You're about to be divorced from your wife. Where does this ever end? Leading him to state that he had lost everything I Pretty much lost everything I Thought healthier in my life. You got lots of money. Money is money. Money has never meant anything to me. You have to have money to exist in this world. But money. money doesn't rule the world. Money Money is not what makes people happy and that he wished he had never purchased the lottery ticket in the first place. Um, I Don't know what is this whole story. It just seems like a good, um, treadmill type of. We're like. he probably leveled out after like a while and it probably sunk in really early. My wife had said she wished that she'd told me to take it up. Well, I wish that we had told him to take it up too. I Just don't like what I've become At one point it flattens out for sure. like at one point Dude. Yeah, if somebody wants to, at one point it it just goes goes back to normal life. That's just they just have just how the human is like, oh wait, it'll be normal. but then he loses everything else, right? So then he's back to being down. Okay, this chat is just uneducated I can't Dude? Dude. dude, how many times have we have I googled this phenomenon for chat? Oh man, we do do education. Mondays It's Thursday I don't give a fight and ask the headaches. Observe the tendency of humans to quickly return to a related stable level of Happiness by major or positive or negative events. Shut up or Life Changes according this Theory as a person makes more money, exhibition desires Rising tandem which resulting no permanent getting into happiness suggests that well does not increase the level happiness. Boom This is a millionaire. So now it is that. maybe What it says you probably don't won't believe this right? But let's say this is your level of Happiness right? This is like a 10 minute. It's like 10 on happiness, right? Some people are probably more happy with almost literally nothing. Um, shut the up No one asked right? Even though you have a good amount right? So I'm just saying yo Dude, what about it? What about a poor family in Kenya Well well I would assume that you're born so away and certain and you accept your your your your conditions right? What's your favorite? I guess once you become aware in certain capacities yeah it can. You go up and down right? Makes sense right? But you right? Let's say um, you're good right? But then something bad happens like I Don't know. Um, your house is on fire and you lose a lot of money. What goes down right, it goes down. You lost your house Boom The thing is though is that The theory says that let's say this is this is right. You're five right? The human is really really really good at basically going up and then back to five right? So they they get something over here right? They don't lose it, but they still go back to the five. We're really quick really quickly. The same goes to people who go lose something, go down right to like a three right and after a while becomes normal for them then so they're back to the father. Does it make sense? So in reality, R5s are usually pretty much the same. How about you I bet you look around you, how do you look around you ready? Yes, You happy or not? Um, would you say that you're more happy now than you were before? Absolutely yo. this is X x on the video I'm going through my voice as well. That has anyone knows that boy I don't know. He's just so sorry. Anyone knows that boy I don't know. He's just so sorry.