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You hold the winning ticket for half a billion dollars. What's the first thing you do?

Posted by Fuzzy (mobile) (aka mrfuzzy) Mar 30 '12, 06:34

Hire security and hide my family.

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Be sure to spread out your investments. Don't put all your eggs in one basket - Beaker Mar 30, 07:19
Find a financial advisor and financial attorney to advise me before I cash the ticket in. - ty97 Mar 30, 07:16 1
- "You will give the ticket to me, and let me take care of everything" -- nm - Lawyer Mind Trick Mar 30, 07:18
"I don't know these people? Who ARE they? Prank caller. Prank caller." -- nm - Mojave in the Caribbean Mar 30, 07:09
Do we have any ST lawyers that specialize in this kind of law? -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 07:09 11
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  - Well everyone always says, "get a lawyer" if you win. So, what type of laywer? -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 07:11 9
    - Estate law. -- nm - decline Mar 30, 07:16
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      - the only reason I would do lawyer first is to have him handle the media and to draft agreements with the advisors -- nm - decline Mar 30, 07:17 1
        
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    - no no. they say "get a lawyer drunk." silly. you missed the last word. nmbjack - iceberg jones Mar 30, 07:12 2
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      - Oh, well it was get a drunk lawyer I know who to hire. -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 07:13
    - Estate? -- nm - Diva Mar 30, 07:12
Cash it in. "Deposit to my bank." Then I figure out what to do; that ticket doesn't exist in my hands 1 second longer than necessary. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 07:07 2
- Then the bank goes belly up and you're left with $250,000. -- nm - Ender Mar 30, 07:09 1
  - If they go belly up with an additional 300mil in capital for a short time frame......... -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 30, 07:19
Be on the first plane to Ireland -- nm - CQ: 21, 22. Whatever it takes Mar 30, 07:06 5
- try and find me. I'll be at a pub -- nm - CQ: 21, 22. Whatever it takes Mar 30, 07:07 4
  - *kidnaps CQs children for ransom while he's drinking* -- nm - The Unsinkable Andie Brown Mar 30, 07:07 3
    - my family would be with me of course, just not in the pub :) -- nm - CQ: 21, 22. Whatever it takes Mar 30, 07:10 2
      - "Look at you, you have a baby... In a bar. " -- nm - decline Mar 30, 07:18 1
        
        greatest line of that dumbass movie the wife made me watch. -- nm - CQ: 21, 22. Whatever it takes Mar 30, 07:22
Launch my 2nd Reign of Terror - prayformojo Mar 30, 07:00 6
- I told you it wasn't spelled "rain of terror", but did you listen?! -- nm - Ender Mar 30, 07:12
- I -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 30, 07:04 4
  - I'm so angry I didn't think of this first I can't even type... - Mel Profit Mar 30, 07:05 3
    - LOL!! -- nm - Epiphany Mar 30, 07:05 2
      - I'm going to the Strip Club with the cast of Anchorman in character. - Mel Profit Mar 30, 07:11 1
        
        heelarious. -- nm - Epiphany Mar 30, 07:17
500 million dollar scratchers! -- nm - Ender Mar 30, 06:59 2
- You could buy a lot of two buck chuck with that. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:01 1
  - But here in Ohio it's like $3.39 per bottle, so that's not nearly as much. -- nm - Ender Mar 30, 07:07
We are hiding out 1st and foremost - likely at my mom's -- nm - Epiphany Mar 30, 06:57 11
- "they'll never look for me at my mom's!" :) -- nm - The Unsinkable Andie Brown Mar 30, 06:57 10
  - snort. That house was built a hundred years ago - it's a fortress. 12 dog alarm system - Epiphany Mar 30, 07:00 9
    - We need to write this. Take your reality show idea and dramatize it - replete w/your Mom's Fortress of Non-Solitude, Hippy Step-Dad, the gun arsenal - Diva Mar 30, 07:10 6
      - I will remember to grab the cam-corder the minute we win - Lil Pip has always wanted to direct - this will be her big break - Epiphany Mar 30, 07:14 5
        
        I"m telling yall right now - Gambling would be my biggest stumbling block. - Epiphany Mar 30, 07:18 3
        
        I would go on one sh!tshow of a gambling binge and then be pretty much done with it, I think. - znufrii Mar 30, 07:19
        
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        High Limits tables - I think so. Can you imagine hitting a straight flush on a $ 1000 bet? holy crap - Epiphany Mar 30, 07:24
        
        this would be so awesome. -- nm - Diva Mar 30, 07:15
    - So if I win, I'm hiding out there? -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 07:00 1
      - sure - how do you feel about a dog shelter within in a home? they are very sweet and kind. - Epiphany Mar 30, 07:05
Post congrats to my fellow STers! {nm} - Banzai! Mar 30, 06:55
scream "Holy #$#$!" -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 06:52
I'm holding the wining ticket? Why didn't anyone tell me? Whoopee! -- nm - Was Bar Was Mar 30, 06:45
tonight? I hop the next available flight to LA. -- nm - iceberg jones Mar 30, 06:42 5
- i think i'd be too freaked to do anything immediately. maybe go out for a crazy expensive dinner, maybe. - The Unsinkable Andie Brown Mar 30, 06:52 4
  - three of my favorite people are in LA this weekend for differing reasons. if I win half a bill, no *way* am I not partying with sasha. no *way.* -- nm - iceberg jones Mar 30, 07:08 1
    - I just figured you told pixie you'd jam him when you won the lottery. -- nm - spamlet Mar 30, 07:18
  - this - I'm going to need to be sedated to actually get any sleep -- nm - Epiphany Mar 30, 06:53 1
    - Agreed. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 06:54
Immediate hiding. Tell my close family and move them also. Contact security and then lawyer and accountant. -- nm - volnelk Mar 30, 06:40 1
- I didn't even think about security. But yeah that'd be something necessary too. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 06:44
go to the bank and put the ticket in a safety deposit box. -- nm - decline Mar 30, 06:38 16
- have notarized copies made -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 13:44
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  - there is a great fiction novel regarding this - Ravens. -- (link) - Epiphany Mar 30, 07:03
  - that's why i just check into a hotel for a while. let them deal with it. -- nm - The Unsinkable Andie Brown Mar 30, 06:58 7
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      - really, i'd stay here at a really nice high end hotel while everything got sorted, then i'd hit the road travelling. - The Unsinkable Andie Brown Mar 30, 07:11 5
        
        yes indeed. how does one go about hiring a personal assistant that is not going to rip you off or sell you out to the media? -- nm - Epiphany Mar 30, 07:16 4
        
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        also pay them and treat them well. no-one wants to ruin a good gig. -- nm - The Unsinkable Andie Brown Mar 30, 07:20 1
        
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        See we hire Jack Dawson as Lawyer negotiator to other lawyers. -- nm - Bacon Mar 30, 07:19
  - I saw a special on TV once and the person that won said they got thousands of letters begging for money for years. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 06:58 3
    - I don't doubt there's a cottage inddustry of people tracking down lottery winners and begging/scamming them for money. - znufrii Mar 30, 07:00 2
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      - there is. -- nm - decline Mar 30, 07:03
- oh, and sign the back of the dang ticket. -- nm - decline Mar 30, 06:40
go to Warehouse Liquors and buy the most expensive bottle of scotch they have. -- nm - znufrii Mar 30, 06:36 4
- "warehouse liquors" sounds really... not expensive. - Andie Mar 30, 06:38 3
  - doesn't mean they don't also have good stuff. - znufrii Mar 30, 06:42
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    - make old man Boone an offer he can't refuse -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 13:46
I sit tight a few days, then hire a lawyer and accountant. The public won't see my name by the end of it. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 06:35 9
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  - yeah, apparently very few states allow you to remain anonymous. DE and OH seem to be 2 of them -- nm - decline Mar 30, 06:42
  - You can work around the majority of these issues (IDK about all states) byt setting up the winning ticket as a trust or LLC. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 06:41 3
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      - Hence my statement "IDK about all states" -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 06:44
    - only in a few states -- nm - decline Mar 30, 06:42
- yep. lawyer and accountant before you claim. also, i probably go to a hotel so no-one knows where i am. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 06:36 2
  - With a good enough lawyer and accountant, your name never gets released and you'll have plenty of time to sort out what you want to do. - MDH Mar 30, 06:40 1
    - i'm not sure about your laws, but, here it's on the ticket that the winner agrees to the use of their name and image, i'm pretty sure. - The Unsinkable Andie Brown Mar 30, 06:44

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