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Winning the Lottery
LOTTERY TO HELL

Winning the lottery is the ultimate dream in everyone's life. It is an easy game and requires very less amount of money to play, but the chances of winning are a one in a million. In everyone's mind, spending their last dollar bill on a ticket and pick out random numbers may turn their life around in a positive and joyful way. In fact, winning the lottery could bring someone's life more than just joy, it could turn their life into a living nightmares. Despite the risks on winning the lottery, more and more people are drawn to the idea of winning a fortune amount of money by playing guessed numbers and spending less money. Throughout the years, study shows that more and more lottery winners have had experienced the nightmares of winning the lottery ticket, this includes life at risk, depression, and death.

Life at risk is known to be the most common effect on lottery winners. Lottery winners are more expose to danger because of the lack of experience, carelessness, security and privacy. One winner for example, 45 years old name Jack Whittaker, who won a power ball lottery ticket worth of $314.9 million dollars in West Virginia in December 2002. Shorty after winning, rubbers constantly breaks in into his properties and stole whatever they desire, he later start hiring local police of duty to guard his house and being his body guard. Lottery winners are not only exposing to the outside dangers from strangers, but also the danger from within the family. William Bud Post III, for example, he won $16.2 million dollars in 1988. In 1993, five years after winner, his brother was convicted of hiring a hit man to kill him and his wise. In 2007, in Daytona, Ohio a wife who was sent to prison after trying to kill her husband when discovered he had won a $3.5 million in lottery ticket. Although winning the lottery might be a risk to someone's life, it is a chance of a life time that everyone can't seems to pass.

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