Lotto Winner Sues Lotto for 'Ruining her Life'

MilesMorales1 · 13-02-2017 12:01PM

https://mobile.twitter.com/janeparkx

Doesn't seem distressed on her twitter.

Winterlong · 13-02-2017 12:19PM

Some solicitors will be rubbing their hands at the prospect of taking this case on.

Mousewar · 13-02-2017 01:12PM

I find this kind of interesting. I wouldn't say I'm on her side but winning the lottery clearly completely changes your life. Being rich is a very unique experience with unique responsibilities and unique pressures and I imagine having it suddenly realised is not a straightforwardly good thing.

If you grow up rich then you are naturally prepared for being rich. You've literally been raised for it. If you work hard and strive for it then that process itself prepares you for it. You've worked for it so you instinctively know the value of the money. But if you just suddenly get it handed to you then you suddenly have to live a totally different life that you have no preparation for. I can see that going wrong.

I think it could be argued that her life has been dramatically altered because of the lotto win and it could also be argued that that is not necessarily a good thing. The biggest impediment to her case, however, is obviously the fact that she voluntarily entered the lottery. No one forced her to buy a ticket. I suppose though that is where the 'age of consent' issue becomes a factor.

silverharp · 13-02-2017 01:19PM

Mousewar wrote: »

I find this kind of interesting. I wouldn't say I'm on her side but winning the lottery clearly completely changes your life. Being rich is a very unique experience with unique responsibilities and unique pressures and I imagine having it suddenly realised is not a straightforwardly good thing.

If you grow up rich then you are naturally prepared for being rich. You've literally been raised for it. If you work hard and strive for it then that process itself prepares you for it. You've worked for it so you instinctively know the value of the money. But if you just suddenly get it handed to you then you suddenly have to live a totally different life that you have no preparation for. I can see that going wrong.

I think it could be argued that her life has been dramatically altered because of the lotto win and it could also be argued that that is not necessarily a good thing. The biggest impediment to her case, however, is obviously the fact that she voluntarily entered the lottery. No one forced her to buy a ticket. I suppose though that is where the 'age of consent' issue becomes a factor.

I'd agree, personally speaking I would hate for my kids to have a lottery win at 16 or 17. Chances are I'd be getting a call from the police saying their Ferrari is wrapped around a tree and the occupants are dead and were high on coke.
There probably should be a trustee if you win in the 17-21 age range. in saying that she ought not have a case

valoren · 13-02-2017 01:19PM

I've always felt that the effect on people who come into sudden money like winning a lottery, exaggerates the kind of person they were before coming into the money.

For example, a charitable person is more likely to give the money away. A stingy person will become even tighter. A kind and caring person will be a joy to be around while an arsehole would become in an insufferable nightmare.

In this case, the winner was an attention seeker. So much so that she is perfectly happy to bask in the publicity that this ridiculous claim against Camelot is giving her.

Summer wind · 13-02-2017 01:39PM

She should be shot with a ball of her own ****e.

osarusan · 13-02-2017 01:46PM

Camelot have said that they provided investment advice, put her in contact with another young winner who could offer advice, and did other stuff too.

So I don't really know what the claim of negligence is about. Her life changing dramatically is unavoidable.

Sofiztikated · 13-02-2017 01:56PM

osarusan wrote: »

Camelot have said that they provided investment advice, put her in contact with another young winner who could offer advice, and did other stuff too.

So I don't really know what the claim of negligence is about. Her life changing dramatically is unavoidable.

I think the negligence is that they just gave her the money. Just gave it to her. It's not as though she had to buy a ticket or anything.

buried · 13-02-2017 01:58PM

Chav compo culture logic " I swear on me grans life it wuz the money nearly what killed me, so now I'm going to sue that lot for more money so I is"

TallGlass · 13-02-2017 02:05PM

As they say, 'money and fools are easily parted', seems the case here.

punisher5112 · 13-02-2017 02:07PM

I see she met our good friend the wallet inspector.

Bambi985 · 13-02-2017 02:40PM

a million squids isn't exactly a huge, huge amount of money these days. not in the way it was when i was a kid in the 80s and being a "millionaire" actually meant something.

i think to properly have my life destroyed by coke and hookers and general over-indulgence I'd need to be winning in the regions of 30 million.

sjb25 · 13-02-2017 02:42PM

mdwexford wrote: »

Spa.

Give it all away to charity if it's that hard a life for you.

Give it to me never mind that charity nonsense

B.A._Baracus · 13-02-2017 04:39PM

This is one of the most sickening things I've read lately.
but she was extremely lucky to win such an amount. She now has two properties to her name but since she blew through it she now wants more money so why not sue acting like a victim.

That is just wrong.

DrPhilG · 13-02-2017 04:56PM

It's a trap!

If the courts award her a load of money because the Lotto gave her a load of money then she'll sue them next using this case as a precedent!

punisher5112 · 13-02-2017 05:59PM

I want to sue the internet who do I put on court summons.

valoren · 13-02-2017 06:30PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

I want to sue the internet who do I put on court summons.

Al Gore?

freshpopcorn · 13-02-2017 07:08PM

I'm nearly twenty five now and would have done the lottery and bought scratch card since I was a teenager and what I'd planned to with the money if I won then is basically the same now as it was ten years ago.
I think this girl would have being the same with the money if she won it when she was twenty seven.

super_furry · 13-02-2017 07:12PM

"“It’s scary how different my life is from my friends’. When they say they’re stressed about the money they mean their wages are s***,” she said. “There’s no one in the same boat as me, no one who really understands. I feel like I’m a 40-year-old."

Poor little rich girl.

Yourself isit · 13-02-2017 09:05PM

super_furry wrote: »

"“It’s scary how different my life is from my friends’. When they say they’re stressed about the money they mean their wages are s***,” she said. “There’s no one in the same boat as me, no one who really understands. I feel like I’m a 40-year-old."

Poor little rich girl.

She feels like a 40 year old who has won the lottery