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[BluesBabe666]

Briefly watched some crap on ACA last night about the winner of 30 mill? I think it was in a small country town... someone bought the winning ticket anyway at this tiny newsagents in a small country town and now every bastard is trying to find out who the winner is.

Now... why? I mean for curiosity's sake, yeah, ok, if i lived in a small town i'd want to know too.... but ACA were making out like the person that won it was a sneaky tightass because they werent advertising it.

Now, why would they? So they could get every money hungry shyzer in place wanting a piece of the pie?

Good luck to him/her/it. I dont think they are under any obligation whatsoever to share the news with anyone, even the place they bought the ticket. Its not like the newsagents had any real hand in providing a winning ticket, so... what difference should it make!!

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

all the good "stories" are held over until ray returns.

cheers!

 

[Captain Sensible]

If I wom Tatts I would only tell my wife. I wouldnt even tell my parents, I certainly wouldnt tell the kids.

 

[BluesBabe666]

I would tell a fair few people... mostly to rub it in, but thats a persons perogative isnt it - to be able to choose what to tell others and what not to tell!

 

[Port1978]

I wouldn't tell anyone apart from the hubby of course if I won.....not even the our families.....especially not HIS family!

 

[red+black]

i think even if you want to be anonymous, they hunt you down and expose you. then you have to come clean like the WA couple did.

 

[lioness]

Curiousity is only natural, but if someone doesn't want the world to know they've just won a fortune, then I think they should be left alone, not hunted down and well, 'outed'. It's up to them whether they want the world knowing and if they do, then good I'll listen, but not if it's against their wishes.

I know it'd cause a lot of hassles with people wanting money from you and stuff like that, but I think if I won that much money, I'd certainly be telling the world!

 

[CharlieG]

I'd tell my parents and sisters, and a couple of close friends. There'd be a couple of other relatives who would also be told... but only certain ones.

As an aside, would people share the wealth around with your close friends and family? I'd set up my parents, and help would be there for others if they needed it.

 

[Nic]

Unfortunately (depending on how you see it) I'd tell a fair few people and more than likely end up giving a fair whack of it away.

 

[Richmondfan#1]

Originally posted by CharlieG
As an aside, would people share the wealth around with your close friends and family?

Damn straight I would. No doubt about it. What's the point of having it if you're not going to share it with your loved ones.

 

[noogie_da_sheep]

Originally posted by BluesBabe666
Good luck to him/her/it

crikey...it?...lotto agencies will sell tickets to anyone now-a-days

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by CharlieG

As an aside, would people share the wealth around with your close friends and family? I'd set up my parents, and help would be there for others if they needed it.

Yeah I definitely would, especially with my parents. Neither of them have really had much money and it'd just be nice to set them up in their own homes with nice new cars and a bit of money in the bank rather than have to watch them struggle through mountains of debt.

Same with my brother who's been too sick to work full time for a couple of years......and my long-suffering sister who ends up helping them all out!

My close friends are all pretty well set up....it'd depend how much money I had, but I'd help my family first.

 

[myee8]

ACA are just trying to make themselves look like the good guys, to take a break from their normal 'outrageous' stories.

 

[Yianni]

Originally posted by localyokel
If I wom Tatts I would only tell my wife. I wouldnt even tell my parents, I certainly wouldnt tell the kids.

Kids: Wow Dad, a Ferrari! Where'd you get the money for that?!?!
lokelyokel: Um...I ah...I stole it! Daddy stole it, you can be sure of that!

 

[Portia]

I wouldn't even think about telling anyone until I woke up in a gutter on Bourbon Street.

 

[pav_is_god]

Originally posted by myee8
ACA are just trying to make themselves look like the good guys, to take a break from their normal 'outrageous' stories.

How? By trying to hunt down some poor guy (not in a monetary sense) who hasn't done anything wrong and plaster his name over prime time TV, effectively telling everyone to come and leach off his new millions?

 

[myee8]

Originally posted by pav_is_god
How? By trying to hunt down some poor guy (not in a monetary sense) who hasn't done anything wrong and plaster his name over prime time TV, effectively telling everyone to come and leach off his new millions?

Well look at how the story is run - no frowning from the TV studio presenter, and the reporter himself is going around asking questions with a smile, no chasing people and interviewing any poor victims.

 

[pav_is_god]

Originally posted by myee8
Well look at how the story is run - no frowning from the TV studio presenter, and the reporter himself is going around asking questions with a smile, no chasing people and interviewing any poor victims.

Still, look at it from the lotto winner's POV, if he wanted to tell Australia he's a millionaire he would have. Until then it's nobodies business, particularly ACA's.