If you think you have a bad day: A waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her coworkers for a share, then sued by the man who gave her the ticket…
If you think you have a bad day: A waitress was tipped a lottery ticket and won $10,000,000. She was then sued by her coworkers for a share, then sued by the man who gave her the ticket…
“This story follows Dickerson, an Alabama waitress who in 1999 received a lottery ticket as a tip from a customer. The ticket won $10 million, and chaos followed.
Coworkers sued, claiming they had agreed to share any winnings; the man who gave her the ticket demanded a portion; and her ex-husband, enraged over the fortune, abducted her at gunpoint. In the struggle, she shot him in self-defense. Even after surviving that ordeal, Dickerson faced years of legal battles with the IRS, which taxed her heavily when she placed her winnings into a family corporation. Her saga became a modern American parable about luck, greed, and the dark side of sudden fortune.
Added Fact: In 2012, the U.S. Tax Court ruled against Dickerson, requiring her to pay over $1 million in gift taxes, ending one of the strangest lottery cases in American legal history.”
From historyfeels on IG.
capybaring_capybara on
If you win the lottery tell fucking noone -Sun Tzu or something
DeaneTR on
That’s why you send a lawyer and a financial manager to pick up lottery winnings… If you win the lottery you basically need to disappear your presence from your former life and exercise your legal right to not be identified in any way other than the LLC you set up to pick up the check… There’s a whole industry that preys on lottery winners because its easy money from people who aren’t used to having it.
GhalanSmokescale on
And that’s why you keep your mouth shut in the event of winning the lottery. It only attracts vermin.
iMogwai on
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Remarkable-Low-7588 on
I may be wrong but wasn’t this the premise of “it could happen to you” with Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda?
RandomChurn on
Winning is so often a curse. Up to and including being murdered.
AgitatedPatience5729 on
That should have been kept a secret.
Otaraka on
She lost the original case about sharing with waitresses then won on a technicality about sharing gambling from what I can find.
At least some of the problems were possibly of her own making.
I’m from the area where this happened. She was a waitress at a 24 breakfast food chain restaurant in the deep south and the man was a frequent customer. He would go get lottery tickets from a bordering state (lottery is illegal here) every week and the waitresses would pool their money and give it to him to buy tickets. As a group, the employees bought tickets with a share and share alike agreement to increase the odds for winnings. The winning ticket was given to her as a tip and he expressly stated if she won – she had to buy him a new truck.
luckystrike_bh on
The lottery is a tax for people who are bad at math.
zizp on
This story again. It’s missing all the important details.
kissobajslovski on
So she got a whole lot of money and got disappointed?
Lou_Nap_865 on
What ticket?
DecentHawk9850 on
🤫Loose Lips Sink Ships..
🤨One day that mouth of yours gone get you trouble,and thennn…🙄
Snarky75 on
She should have kept quiet!!!
_hot95cobraguy on
On what ground did they (both) sue for? I’m sure they were frivolous lawsuits
EddieHeadshot on
If they revealed hef name couldn’t she just say she’d bought another ticket herself?
No_Telephone_6213 on
This why when I win? Shoot nobody’s going to know it but my lawyers😂😂😂
REDNOOK on
As someone who lives in “normal world”, if you give someone sometging, its theirs. End of story.
Know_1_7777777 on
And on top of that her ex husband tried to kidnap her.
HotButteredPoptart on
If I ever win the lottery, I’m telling no one.
ramjetstream on
This is why you don’t tell people when life gives you something nice
stupidber on
Ya but not all on the same day
She also got kidnapped and shot the guy btw
JustPassingGo on
So she was bragging about winning.
WilkinsonRadio on
Why give the ticket as a tip if you’re just going to try and claim it? Absolute lowlife
JCannon2134 on
Assuming that’s “the man”
KR1735 on
And that’s why Michelle Duggar became the POS she is.
bush3102 on
That’s why you keep your mouth shut
TraditionalLaw7763 on
I would’ve never said a word. Worked the rest of my shift, calmly clocked out. Gone home. Ate a snack. Went to bed. Woke up the next morning, cashed in my lotto ticket… put it in the bank… gone to work… rinse, repeat. Then after about a month… I’d quit and never come back. Ta-dah! 🎉 No lawsuits. No one coming after me.
SlightlyStable on
I too would like to sue this woman.
TheManInTheShack on
The waitstaff sued her saying that they had a verbal agreement that if anyone tipped a lottery ticket and it won, they would split the winnings. She lost but the Alabama Supreme Court sided with her on appeal because the verbal agreement was a gambling contract and since gambling isn’t legal in Alabama, the court ruled the contract unenforceable.
The customer that gave her the ticket claimed that she said she would buy him a truck if she won. The court dismissed that case.
She took annual payments of $375K instead of a lump sum.
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“This story follows Dickerson, an Alabama waitress who in 1999 received a lottery ticket as a tip from a customer. The ticket won $10 million, and chaos followed.
Coworkers sued, claiming they had agreed to share any winnings; the man who gave her the ticket demanded a portion; and her ex-husband, enraged over the fortune, abducted her at gunpoint. In the struggle, she shot him in self-defense. Even after surviving that ordeal, Dickerson faced years of legal battles with the IRS, which taxed her heavily when she placed her winnings into a family corporation. Her saga became a modern American parable about luck, greed, and the dark side of sudden fortune.
Added Fact: In 2012, the U.S. Tax Court ruled against Dickerson, requiring her to pay over $1 million in gift taxes, ending one of the strangest lottery cases in American legal history.”
From historyfeels on IG.
If you win the lottery tell fucking noone -Sun Tzu or something
That’s why you send a lawyer and a financial manager to pick up lottery winnings… If you win the lottery you basically need to disappear your presence from your former life and exercise your legal right to not be identified in any way other than the LLC you set up to pick up the check… There’s a whole industry that preys on lottery winners because its easy money from people who aren’t used to having it.
And that’s why you keep your mouth shut in the event of winning the lottery. It only attracts vermin.
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I may be wrong but wasn’t this the premise of “it could happen to you” with Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda?
Winning is so often a curse. Up to and including being murdered.
That should have been kept a secret.
She lost the original case about sharing with waitresses then won on a technicality about sharing gambling from what I can find.
At least some of the problems were possibly of her own making.
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Don’t you MAKE me hurt your dog…
I’m from the area where this happened. She was a waitress at a 24 breakfast food chain restaurant in the deep south and the man was a frequent customer. He would go get lottery tickets from a bordering state (lottery is illegal here) every week and the waitresses would pool their money and give it to him to buy tickets. As a group, the employees bought tickets with a share and share alike agreement to increase the odds for winnings. The winning ticket was given to her as a tip and he expressly stated if she won – she had to buy him a new truck.
The lottery is a tax for people who are bad at math.
This story again. It’s missing all the important details.
So she got a whole lot of money and got disappointed?
What ticket?
🤫Loose Lips Sink Ships..
🤨One day that mouth of yours gone get you trouble,and thennn…🙄
She should have kept quiet!!!
On what ground did they (both) sue for? I’m sure they were frivolous lawsuits
If they revealed hef name couldn’t she just say she’d bought another ticket herself?
This why when I win? Shoot nobody’s going to know it but my lawyers😂😂😂
As someone who lives in “normal world”, if you give someone sometging, its theirs. End of story.
And on top of that her ex husband tried to kidnap her.
If I ever win the lottery, I’m telling no one.
This is why you don’t tell people when life gives you something nice
Ya but not all on the same day
She also got kidnapped and shot the guy btw
So she was bragging about winning.
Why give the ticket as a tip if you’re just going to try and claim it? Absolute lowlife
Assuming that’s “the man”
And that’s why Michelle Duggar became the POS she is.
That’s why you keep your mouth shut
I would’ve never said a word. Worked the rest of my shift, calmly clocked out. Gone home. Ate a snack. Went to bed. Woke up the next morning, cashed in my lotto ticket… put it in the bank… gone to work… rinse, repeat. Then after about a month… I’d quit and never come back. Ta-dah! 🎉 No lawsuits. No one coming after me.
I too would like to sue this woman.
The waitstaff sued her saying that they had a verbal agreement that if anyone tipped a lottery ticket and it won, they would split the winnings. She lost but the Alabama Supreme Court sided with her on appeal because the verbal agreement was a gambling contract and since gambling isn’t legal in Alabama, the court ruled the contract unenforceable.
The customer that gave her the ticket claimed that she said she would buy him a truck if she won. The court dismissed that case.
She took annual payments of $375K instead of a lump sum.