A lottery winner and the money didn't go to his head.......

even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
edited April 2008 in A Moving Train
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/04/03/chicken-giveaway.html


What a swell guy!.....


Jackpot winner in fowl mood; serves up free chicken
Bloor Street butcher hands out 22,000 kg of chicken legs to celebrate win
Last Updated: Thursday, April 3, 2008 | 2:26 PM ET Comments8Recommend123CBC News
It was an extra busy day Thursday at the O Nosso Talho butcher shop in downtown Toronto.

Hundreds of people have been lining up all day along Bloor Street West to get some of the free chicken owner Jose Lima is giving away.

Lima said he's handing out 22,680 kilograms of chicken legs to celebrate the $14.5 million he won last week in Lotto 6-49 and in memory of his father, who died five years ago.

"I give a full bag of chicken legs. You can sit down with the family, with three or four children, and you have food for one day," said Lima, as he handed out chicken at the store. "I want the people to remember me, I want people to remember my father … It's the biggest day of my life."

Lima says he's handed out chicken to about 500 people every hour.

He's also giving $5,000 to each of the store's employees.

The 52-year-old father of two says the big win won't change his life too much.

But one thing will change: he plans to cut his seven-day work week to three or four days.
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  • yeah heard this on the radio today, I drove by, and the lineup was definitely around the block.

    AHH CHICKEN!!!! GIMME!!
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Sounds like something I would do If I had won. Do a little something for your community.

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  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    There are a few organizations I would help out if I ever won. It would be pretty cool.
  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,752
    i bet this is going to piss off the vegetarians here.....

    hehehehehe................
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    Till there aint nothing left worth taking away from me.....
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    i bet this is going to piss off the vegetarians here.....

    hehehehehe................



    lol.. vegetarians
  • Uncle LeoUncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    Give a man a chicken you feed him for a day. Teach a man to chase, catch, chop the heads off, pluck and cook chickens you'll feed him for the rest of his life and give him some good exercise.
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Uncle Leo wrote:
    Give a man a chicken you feed him for a day. Teach a man to chase, catch, chop the heads off, pluck and cook chickens you'll feed him for the rest of his life and give him some good exercise.

    That's a great lesson to be learned.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • i like the other guy who just won. the first thing he did was quit his job! You never hear about those guys. its always some guy who happens to love his job and keeps it. If he loves his job so much he should just give the ticket to the other 90% of people who hate theirs.
  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    MrSmith wrote:
    i like the other guy who just won. the first thing he did was quit his job! You never hear about those guys. its always some guy who happens to love his job and keeps it. If he loves his job so much he should just give the ticket to the other 90% of people who hate theirs.

    You also hear of people who win, who end up on skid row, again.


    Does everybody who plays the lottery hate their job? Why do retired people bother to play or gamble? I would cut down hours at work, but I wouldn't quit my job. And if I did I'd probably open a restaurant and want to be the cook. I'd be working. :)
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  • even flow? wrote:
    You also hear of people who win, who end up on skid row, again.


    Does everybody who plays the lottery hate their job? Why do retired people bother to play or gamble? I would cut down hours at work, but I wouldn't quit my job. And if I did I'd probably open a restaurant and want to be the cook. I'd be working. :)

    yeah, i'd work but i would definitely be the boss. but maybe i would be like the Office Space guy and do absolutley nothing. sit on my ass all day and do nothing. ahhhhhhhhhhhh...
  • I'd retire if I could. Why should I keep someone who needs the money in unemployment?
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