People Whose Lives Were Ruined By Winning The Lottery
![People Whose Lives Were Ruined By Winning The Lottery](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/8/0/740680_320x180.jpg?v=3)
What would you do if you won the lottery? Give back to the community? Help your local religious institution? Feed your family? Ha! Try buy a mansion, car, sports team, gold leaf steak, private island, and the entire Big Rock Candy mountain (for mining purposes, of course), then go to space!
Let's be real, we've all sat around some minimum wage job, bored at opening or closing time with our coworkers, and played the “maaaan, if I won the lottery…” Usually, it's a harmless game, just sitting around bullshitting, but that doesn't stop us taking the last remaining dollars in our pockets to the lotto machine on our way out of the corner store.
Many of us dream of hitting the jackpot, and so what? It's not like it'd actually change us! But some dreams are better left as stories to bore your coworkers. Here are six people whose lives took a dark turn after winning big.
![TONDA DICKERSON WON $10 MILLION A man tipped his Waffle House waitress with a lottery ticket, which ended up winning $10 million. The woman's coworker](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/5/8/740658.jpg?v=2)
![UROOJI KHAN WON $1 MILLION Khan was found dead a day after cashing his scratch-off ticket for for $1 million. Cyanide was found in his blood stream, b](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/6/0/740660.jpg?v=2)
![IBI RONCAIOLI WON $5 MILLION lill IAIT 0o 3 IIOILL Roncaioli won $5 million in 1991. She spent most of the money before she and her husband retired, g](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/3/740673.jpg?v=2)
![BAZIL THORNE WON f100 THOUSAND IN 1960 Thorne won the Australian lottery in 1960. His picture was plastered all over newspapers. His eight-year-old so](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/6/1/740661.jpg?v=2)
![WILLIAM BUD POST WON $16.2 MILLION Post had $2.46 in his bank account when he won $16.2 million in the lottery, but he would say, I was much happier](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/7/2/740672.jpg?v=2)
![BILLIE BOB HARRELL WON $31 MILLION After winning $31 million, Harrell was generous with his money. He bought houses for several family members and don](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/6/5/9/740659.jpg?v=2)