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lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
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Lotto Max winner Tom Crist giving away entire $40-million jackpot to charity

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/17 ... o-charity/

:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:

this is a great storey ... with so much greed, selfishness in the world today ... i must admit this made my day when I read this.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,051
    Awesome story! :clap: :thumbup:
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,720
    great story!!
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  • backseatLover12backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    Awesome. Just awesome.
  • know1know1 Posts: 6,794
    I applaud him, but why was he buying tickets?
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Whoa! His company was bought in 2012 for over a billion.

    Nice to see the typical greedy CEO has achieved redemption ;)

    I love when people give because they can, and because they want to.

    Also not sure why the need to buy tickets - maybe a rush? - but yup, good on him.
  • backseatLover12backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    know1 wrote:
    I applaud him, but why was he buying tickets?

    Good question.
  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,138
    hedonist wrote:
    Whoa! His company was bought in 2012 for over a billion.

    Nice to see the typical greedy CEO has achieved redemption ;)

    I love when people give because they can, and because they want to.

    Also not sure why the need to buy tickets - maybe a rush? - but yup, good on him.
    Greedy bastard is probably using it as a tax write-off on a charity he oversees :geek: ;) :think:
  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    his win was by subscription (no ticket-you pay for a year's worth of draws on the same numbers and WCLC lets you know if you've won). he probably had it for years before he was super rich and just kept paying for it every year without a second thought.
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  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    his win was by subscription (no ticket-you pay for a year's worth of draws on the same numbers and WCLC lets you know if you've won). he probably had it for years before he was super rich and just kept paying for it every year without a second thought.

    Interesting I didn't know you could subscribe into buying tickets that way. Either way good for him and to the charity he chooses to give it all to. BRAVO!

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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Posts: 49,958
    Yeah, this is absolutely amazing! :clap:
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 Posts: 23,303
    i will never understand how people get an unfair amount of luck while others get shit. the guy sold a company for a billion dollars, AND he wins a 40 million dollar lottery. some people are poor as shit, play the lottery every week and never win $20. there have been many people who have won the lottery more than once, which takes an overabundant amout of luck...

    i commend this guy for what he did, but if i had a billion dollars i would not play the lottery. if i wanted to be charitable and give away 40 million, i would just donate my own fucking money because i could never spend a billion anyway.
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  • Hugh Freaking DillonHugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    i will never understand how people get an unfair amount of luck while others get shit. the guy sold a company for a billion dollars, AND he wins a 40 million dollar lottery. some people are poor as shit, play the lottery every week and never win $20. there have been many people who have won the lottery more than once, which takes an overabundant amout of luck...

    i commend this guy for what he did, but if i had a billion dollars i would not play the lottery. if i wanted to be charitable and give away 40 million, i would just donate my own fucking money because i could never spend a billion anyway.

    his wife died two years ago to cancer. he started a foundation in her name and is giving part of the money to that foundation and the rest to other charitable organizations. that's probably better than a broke person winning and pissing it away on false friends and bad choices, which is what many lottery winners end up doing. working in the lottery business, I hear about all the people who "won it big" and their lives end up worse than they were before they won. they don't know how to handle it. and there's no regulation on making people take financial counseling or anything when they win.
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  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    From different news reports that i've read sounds like he was a pretty charitable person before the lotto win ... he's doing a great thing, thats whats important ... imo.
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Posts: 49,958
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    i will never understand how people get an unfair amount of luck while others get shit. the guy sold a company for a billion dollars, AND he wins a 40 million dollar lottery. some people are poor as shit, play the lottery every week and never win $20. there have been many people who have won the lottery more than once, which takes an overabundant amout of luck...

    i commend this guy for what he did, but if i had a billion dollars i would not play the lottery. if i wanted to be charitable and give away 40 million, i would just donate my own fucking money because i could never spend a billion anyway.
    Maybe he played the lottery with the intent of giving winnings to charity. Also, who says he hasn't and doesn't give plenty ofnhis own money to charity as well?? Given what he's doing here, I think that is more than likely. Not sure how you can have negative feelings about this. This guy winning will do way more people good than if pretty much anyone else in the country won. Thisbreally could not have gone better. I am not clear on how anyone could begrudge someone's random luck, as though it were unfair, but especially don't see how you think there could be a better possible outcome with this lottery draw, discounting winning it yourself.
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    Maybe he played the lottery with the intent of giving winnings to charity. Also, who says he hasn't and doesn't give plenty ofnhis own money to charity as well?? Given what he's doing here, I think that is more than likely. Not sure how you can have negative feelings about this. This guy winning will do way more people good than if pretty much anyone else in the country won. Thisbreally could not have gone better. I am not clear on how anyone could begrudge someone's random luck, as though it were unfair, but especially don't see how you think there could be a better possible outcome with this lottery draw, discounting winning it yourself.
    :thumbup:

    (Hugh, what kind of work do you do in the lottery field?)
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