Has this man's sexual market value just gone up?

[MatureDJ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_rags_to_riches

South Dakota rancher wins $232 million jackpot

Wanless, who is single, lives with his mother and father on the family's 320-acre ranch near Mission, where they raise cattle, sheep and horses.

I wonder how many fancy schmancy city women will now find this man suddenly "ruggedly handsome"?

 

[Unbridled_Phoenix]

No joke.

 

[ChalengeGuyFan]

He won $232mil. and goes home with just 88.5?! What hell of a country is that?

 

[Fallen]

He won $232mil. and goes home with just 88.5?! What hell of a country is that?

232M is 88.5M after taxes? That's not paying taxes, that's a jack

 

[WhitePimp]

The neighbor's name is Dave Assman...he sounds like a player already

 

[sharkbeat]

ya....pretty crazy country. 232 to 88....amazing.

144 of those goes to the corporate executives. Hooray!

 

[worship]

He got ripped off, but still you can't complain with $88million, especially if you were poor to begin with.

 

[DJDamage]

I hope for his sake that he's got a strong personality to deal with his sudden fame and fortune.

That's why its sometimes dangerous to be an AFC and rich because if you don't know what you are doing, people are going to attempt to take advantage of you.

There are going to be a horde of gold-diggers doing everything they can to try and marry this guy or the very least have his baby.

There are going to be old and new friends/family popping into his life, asking to borrow/loan them huge sums of money without the intention of ever paying him back.

There are going to be business people trying to get their cut by introducing him to different business ventures that could potentially grow.

There are going to be con artists who will swindle him out of his money.

Fvck if I ever going to win a big jackpot, the first thing I am going to do is buy a ticket around the world and get the hell out of town for a very long time. It actually might be best to start fresh somewhere else where people don't know that you won or how much you are worth. Although you could play the "gold diggers" game to your advantage.

 

[MatureDJ]

He won $232mil. and goes home with just 88.5?! What hell of a country is that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery#Payment_of_prizes

Evidently the nominal amount is to be paid over a long period, so there is the option to get the lump sum at the beginning, which would reverse amortized to equal the payment over the term. And then there is taxes (top rate of 36% + state.)

 

[Deep Dish]

Nobody really wants to win the lottery. Now you have to deal with an endless stream of lawsuits being filed against you to rob you. Probably at least ten percent of the winnings will go towards legal fees. And then there's what DJDamage said.

But yes, his sexual market value just IPO'ed.

 

[squirrels]

LOL...

I remember back in my old chump-days, on one particular night, I was in a bar at college just eyeing up all of the hot sorority chicks drifting around. As usual, I had no game and ended the night frustrated as hell as all these sorority girls ended up connecting with all the rich fratties.

As I was walking home from the bar with my roommates, I remember thinking out loud, "This is bullsh*t. If I had a Ferrari parked outside, I'd..."

At this point, my one roommate cut me off rather abruptly and said, "...you'd WHAT? What would you do??"

I stopped to think for a minute...then I shut up.

Maybe some other people also need to ask themselves that particular question.

 

[#41]

Nobody really wants to win the lottery. Now you have to deal with an endless stream of lawsuits being filed against you to rob you. Probably at least ten percent of the winnings will go towards legal fees. And then there's what DJDamage said.

I don't know where you're getting this information from. Really, the major concern when winning the lottery is having endless lines of "friends" and "family members" coming out of the woodwork with sob stories and tales of woe which only money can fix.

 

[MatureDJ]

I don't know where you're getting this information from. Really, the major concern when winning the lottery is having endless lines of "friends" and "family members" coming out of the woodwork with sob stories and tales of woe which only money can fix.

Well, fortunately this type of mooching is self-limiting. There are only so many friends and family that could mooch. A small loan could be given to one, and once he welches, to paraphrase the Soup Nazi, "no more money for you!" With $60M in the bank, $1M should be enough for any friends and family outside nuclear relations. The guy could build a big ranch home with a side structure, and any friends of family members who would be hard on their luck could just be packed in there, like OJ's Kato.

 

[Luthor Rex]

If I won the lottery I would only ever give money to immediate family, but never to friends or anyone else.

When you give out money to a friend you always run the danger of them coming back to you later saying "I need more money, I had all this real bad luck and now I'm out. Oh come on what's a few hundred grand to you?"

They will repeat this over and over until they have sucked you dry.

Good way to kill a friendship is to give or get money from your "friend".

 

[Julian]

I had a debate with my dad today...I said that if you win the lottery you can claim it "anonymously" so to speak...at least get the dough without having to make a freakin speech on TV. He said you had to do all that BS as part of the stipulations. Anyone got word on this?

 

[LeftyLoosey]

As I was walking home from the bar with my roommates, I remember thinking out loud, "This is bullsh*t. If I had a Ferrari parked outside, I'd..."

At this point, my one roommate cut me off rather abruptly and said, "...you'd WHAT? What would you do??"

I stopped to think for a minute...then I shut up.

Maybe some other people also need to ask themselves that particular question.

Excellent. I remember when I sold my house last year, all of a sudden I have $35k in the bank, already had a decent car and a great job. About a day later I found myself no different than I was before I had the money. I was neither happier nor better with women.

Christ, there are men who are practically homeless who can pick up women like no tomorrow. It's that damn TV showing men in nice cars driving around with hot women that teach us all these false lessons.

 

[DJDamage]

I had a debate with my dad today...I said that if you win the lottery you can claim it "anonymously" so to speak...at least get the dough without having to make a freakin speech on TV. He said you had to do all that BS as part of the stipulations. Anyone got word on this?

Its true.

Its part of the deal with lotteries, you win their cash and they get to use your image and name to advertise on your success.

 

[sodbuster]

He needs to spend about $20,000 and get the money offshore in a trust account. If you have to sue in a foreign country with different rules for the legal system,you discourage alot of the suits. Unfortunately, I see him broke in 10 years-owed back taxes,had a trailerhome repo'd, etc. He doesn't know how to handle money. You can't drink or ***** a big fortune away-you can only stupid it away.

 

[The Bat]

Alright, I'm just going to say it...

That guy is pretty good looking. He is got the pretty-naive boy thing going for him.

And yeah, the fact that he is $88 million richer definitely helps with the ladies. I just hope he doesn't get shamed into marrying a "quality" woman anytime soon. The dude is only 23...with this type of fortune, he can stay single for the rest of his life and enjoy scores of women.

 

[DJDamage]

I just hope he doesn't get shamed into marrying a "quality" woman anytime soon. The dude is only 23...with this type of fortune, he can stay single for the rest of his life and enjoy scores of women.

I think he is going to be married within a year.

Just reading this line says all: " I want to thank the Lord for giving me this opportunity and blessing me with this great fortune"

oh oh sounds like a hardcore christian boy, its his duty to find a wife and get married.....

It is also interesting to read in that article about 2 other people that won the lotto in previous years and what they did with it.

Evelyn Marie Adams won 5.4 million dollars in the 80's and lost all of it. Sounds like a very irresponsible woman to have lost all that money.

"And there's West Virginia's Jack Whittaker, who won $315 million on Christmas day, 2002, and five years later was blaming the money for causing his granddaughter's fatal drug overdose, his divorce, his inability to trust and hundreds of lawsuits filed against him.

"I don't have any friends," he told The Associated Press in 2007. "Every friend that I've had, practically, has wanted to borrow money or something and of course, once they borrow money from you, you can't be friends anymore."

See just like I said, get the fvck out of town.