Funny/Crazy Lottery Stories

Who doesn’t love a crazy or funny lottery story..? Give normal everyday people a lottery jackpot and some of them just cannot help but go totally crazy.

Ill Fated Haircut Scoops Man $200,000 Lottery Win

May 4th, 2011

He was on his way to get a haircut when he unfortunately ran out of gas. This day was not going well.

The man from Abbeville, South Carolina, then found himself having to walk all of the rest of the way into town.

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Don’t Let Drug Dealers Buy Your Winning Ticket

April 28th, 2011

In perhaps this months most crazy lottery story, a Baltimore man is accused of laundering drug money by buying winning lottery tickets for cash.

Steven Blackwell is alleged to have bought and claimed for 3 winning lottery tickets over a 5 week period.

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Jackpot Win Saves Ticket Seller From Closure

April 22nd, 2011

It’s not often you hear about the hard working store owners that we buy our tickets from.

You know, the folks who work 12 hour days selling us everything from newspapers to chocolate bars.

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Kids Squabble When Father Dies Day After Jackpot Win

April 20th, 2011

Lajos Szanto won $1,818,181.82 on the Australian lottery. But sadly died the very next day.

Unfortunately the four children he leaves behind are now fighting in court over who gets the cash.

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Man Buys 10 Identical Lottery Tickets – And Wins!

April 20th, 2011

Now normally this would seem a pretty daft thing to do, but a car salesman in Woodbridge, Virginia would strongly disagree.

The unnamed man, who worked at the ‘Lustine Chrysler Jeep Dodge’ dealership in Woodbridge, bought 10 tickets for the Virginia Cash 5 game.

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Scratch Card Spoils Turkey Dinner

April 14th, 2011

It was a typical Sunday turkey family dinner.

Most of the family were in the kitchen finishing up the cooking. The two cousins however were sat at the dining table passing the time with a couple of scratch off lottery tickets one of them had bought.

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Supermarket Wins EuroMillions

April 8th, 2011

In a confusing turn of events for the lottery companies legal experts, the Tesco supermarket in County Meath, Ireland just won €500,000.

How is that possible?

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Saved From Homelessness By Scratchcard

April 3rd, 2011

Things really had got that bad. Alison Hollick, 48, had lost her telesales job, and was in arrears with the mortgage.

With little other option, the house had been put up for sale and a buyer had already been found.

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Postman Pat Hits The Jackpot

March 31st, 2011

A popular postman from Cork won half of the €14Million Irish Lotto jackpot on Saturday.

Pat Broderick from Kinsale is a father of four, and husband of Mary.

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NZ Lotto Dog [video]

March 30th, 2011

If you live in New Zealand you’ll probably already know about the lucky lotto dog advert (is he called Wilson?).

But if not you’ll enjoy this bittersweet lottery winners tale of the NZ lotto dog:

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