So Did The 1.5 Billion Dollar Lottery Winner From October Die or What?

Wait what??? I remember Trent blogging back in November that the winner of the $1.5 BILLION lottery still hadn’t come forward yet, but that was only a month after the drawing. It’s now February and this person has less than two months to go before the money goes away! Like I know that lawyers and such need to be involved, but lottery officials and I have concurred that the lawyers don’t need 6 months to figure it out. We need to get to get into the two minute offense or something. The tock is ticking here, folks!

There is no other explanation for what is taking so long other than there HAS to be something wrong. And it has to be more than just paperwork. Almost six months of paperwork? No chance. And I feel like there would’ve been an announcement or something if that was the case. No, there is something seriously wrong here you guys. I do declare there may have been a murder.

Okay, technically it wouldn’t have been a murder. But this dude has to be dead, right? Had to have seen that his ticket won and died right on the spot. It honestly wouldn’t surprise me. If I found out that I was going to go from being a thousandaire to a billionaire I would probably have a heart attack, too. I think I could tough it out though…

How wild would it be if this person never turns in the ticket? $1.5 BILLION!! They could be dead. They could’ve lost the ticket. I mean, shit, no one may have even known they had the winning ticket! This person could’ve lost their ticket before the drawing. But I guess it doesn’t really affect me too much whether it gets turned in or not. There are some people that it will really affect though…

If the ticket goes unclaimed, the $1.5 billion prize will be redistributed to the 44 states along with the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. One big loser could be South Carolina, which had budgeted a $61 million income tax windfall from the winner but had to remove that estimate — about 0.5 percent of the state’s annual spending plan.

Ouch. Sorry, South Carolina government. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch though! And apparently the citizens of South Carolina are going to be losing money too (sorry, KFC).

Every taxpayer in South Carolina could have a dinner out on the line. A lawmaker has placed a proposal in the state budget that would give up to a $50 rebate to each person who files income taxes — but only if the state gets its taxes from the lottery winner.

$50 from each common man?? That’s enough to get me worked up. But the average person isn’t the only person getting screwed here…

Another big loser would be the store’s owner, who won’t receive his $50,000 bonus if the ticket isn’t claimed.

Yo this actually sucks? Jokes over. The government is losing $61 million, the common-folk are losing $50 each, and the store owner won’t get his $50,000. People’s actual lives will be changed from this guy turning in the ticket or not. This lottery winner (if alive) needs to shit or get off the pot. Just a word to the wise though: make sure that if you do shit, it’s IN the pot.