30 Million Jackpot Winner
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bigsis2uca
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30 million dollar winner in Brandford Ontario
there is an article in todays Toronto Star on the interent.About how there still is no winner who has come forth yet.If I knew how I would post it but cut and paste does not get whole story.
there is an article in todays Toronto Star on the interent.About how there still is no winner who has come forth yet.If I knew how I would post it but cut and paste does not get whole story.
bigsis2uca
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hopefully this is the whole story.if not I am sorry
BRANTFORD - For 12 days now, Brantford has been abuzz. Stories and rumours and theories and guesses are so thick in the air you can rest your chin on them.
An unclaimed $30 million Lotto Super Seven jackpot will do that to a town.
Twelve days. Twelve nights. $30 million. That's a very long time to keep a very big secret.
The young guy at the Brantford casino who everybody thought had won now says it was joke. A stupid joke he's sorry he ever made. He's back spinning wheels or dealing cards or sweeping up the shattered dreams of the desperate or whatever it is you do when you work at a casino; so it probably wasn't him.
There are two schools of thought on the delay: the winner's biding his time, getting everything ready before stepping forward; or he left the ticket in the back pocket of his jeans and tossed it in the laundry.
While there's no guarantee, it seems increasingly unlikely the ticket was bought by a group - good news that big has a way of slipping out. So it was probably an individual, or a couple.
If it was a guy who won, the laundry theory seems pretty plausible, and the ticket's toast, a useless sodden mass of matted paper. Unless he's single, in which case he doesn't ever do laundry and should have cashed it in by now. So a woman, or a couple seem the most likely winners.
In his book, Infinite Financial Freedom, Author Rob Sanford advises big ticket lottery winners to zip your lip and lie low.
"Do not tell anyone you don't have -to that you have won anything," says Sanford, who claims to have advised several large lottery winners. We couldn't reach him by phone, but he lives in Kauai, Hawaii about two streets from the ocean, so he's picked up a few fees from somewhere.
Winners, says Sanford, should get an unlisted phone number and a post office box, take a leave from work, hire a team of advisors including a lawyer, an accountant, a financial planner and several others, get a short term plan in place --and then claim your winnings.
He also suggests, "Be a dull, boring, and uninteresting media interviewee. Silence will help you achieve your planned goals."
Who ever won seems to be taking the last bit to heart.
Calls to lawyers, car dealers and financial advisors in the Brantford area failed to turn up a whiff of a winner.
Brian Bonney runs Magic Moment Limousine, Brantford's only livery service, and when he heard that the winning $30 million ticket had been sold in the Brantford area, he sat back and waited for the call. Stands to reason --you're not gonna pick up $30 million in a minivan or a clapped-out Cavalier.
But that call hasn't come.
Bonney says he'd recommend his top of the line 10 seater Lincoln Town Car, complete with leather seats, champagne and a complete home entertainment centre. But, alas, he says, lottery winners are a cheap lot.
"I've had two or three calls in the past from lottery winners, and in my experience they're cheap. They'll call up and want to be taken (to Toronto, where the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation offices are)-on Monday, but after they hear the prices (about $250)-they're gone."
"I'm guessing they're busy getting their phones unlisted."
Stephen Beda, the sole proprietor of Brantford's One Stop Financial Shopping, says he hasn't been called for advice either. But pressed, he has this to say: go get your money!
Although he says his calculator didn't have enough digits to do the math, he estimates the winner is passing up about $17,000 a week in interest. That's more than $29,000 gone so far.
Even so, he admits, "I wouldn't be there first thing Monday morning either. There'd be family issues that would come into play, people would have to be notified .... I say they're lining up their ducks."
"But you do have to ask yourself that one nagging questions - was the ticket washed in the laundry the next day and lost?"
BRANTFORD - For 12 days now, Brantford has been abuzz. Stories and rumours and theories and guesses are so thick in the air you can rest your chin on them.
An unclaimed $30 million Lotto Super Seven jackpot will do that to a town.
Twelve days. Twelve nights. $30 million. That's a very long time to keep a very big secret.
The young guy at the Brantford casino who everybody thought had won now says it was joke. A stupid joke he's sorry he ever made. He's back spinning wheels or dealing cards or sweeping up the shattered dreams of the desperate or whatever it is you do when you work at a casino; so it probably wasn't him.
There are two schools of thought on the delay: the winner's biding his time, getting everything ready before stepping forward; or he left the ticket in the back pocket of his jeans and tossed it in the laundry.
While there's no guarantee, it seems increasingly unlikely the ticket was bought by a group - good news that big has a way of slipping out. So it was probably an individual, or a couple.
If it was a guy who won, the laundry theory seems pretty plausible, and the ticket's toast, a useless sodden mass of matted paper. Unless he's single, in which case he doesn't ever do laundry and should have cashed it in by now. So a woman, or a couple seem the most likely winners.
In his book, Infinite Financial Freedom, Author Rob Sanford advises big ticket lottery winners to zip your lip and lie low.
"Do not tell anyone you don't have -to that you have won anything," says Sanford, who claims to have advised several large lottery winners. We couldn't reach him by phone, but he lives in Kauai, Hawaii about two streets from the ocean, so he's picked up a few fees from somewhere.
Winners, says Sanford, should get an unlisted phone number and a post office box, take a leave from work, hire a team of advisors including a lawyer, an accountant, a financial planner and several others, get a short term plan in place --and then claim your winnings.
He also suggests, "Be a dull, boring, and uninteresting media interviewee. Silence will help you achieve your planned goals."
Who ever won seems to be taking the last bit to heart.
Calls to lawyers, car dealers and financial advisors in the Brantford area failed to turn up a whiff of a winner.
Brian Bonney runs Magic Moment Limousine, Brantford's only livery service, and when he heard that the winning $30 million ticket had been sold in the Brantford area, he sat back and waited for the call. Stands to reason --you're not gonna pick up $30 million in a minivan or a clapped-out Cavalier.
But that call hasn't come.
Bonney says he'd recommend his top of the line 10 seater Lincoln Town Car, complete with leather seats, champagne and a complete home entertainment centre. But, alas, he says, lottery winners are a cheap lot.
"I've had two or three calls in the past from lottery winners, and in my experience they're cheap. They'll call up and want to be taken (to Toronto, where the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation offices are)-on Monday, but after they hear the prices (about $250)-they're gone."
"I'm guessing they're busy getting their phones unlisted."
Stephen Beda, the sole proprietor of Brantford's One Stop Financial Shopping, says he hasn't been called for advice either. But pressed, he has this to say: go get your money!
Although he says his calculator didn't have enough digits to do the math, he estimates the winner is passing up about $17,000 a week in interest. That's more than $29,000 gone so far.
Even so, he admits, "I wouldn't be there first thing Monday morning either. There'd be family issues that would come into play, people would have to be notified .... I say they're lining up their ducks."
"But you do have to ask yourself that one nagging questions - was the ticket washed in the laundry the next day and lost?"
