It's hard not to feel happy for this guy

[tularetom]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/05/neal-wanless-sd-rancher-w_n_212081.html

Neal Wanless, SD Rancher, Wins $232 Million Jackpot

PIERRE, S.D. — If this were a movie, nobody would believe it: A rancher struggling to eke out a living in one of the poorest corners of America claimed one of the biggest undivided jackpots in U.S. lottery history Friday _ $232 million _ after buying the ticket in a town by the name of Winner.

Neal Wanless, 23, said he intends to buy himself more room to roam and repay the kindness other townspeople have shown his family.

"I want to thank the Lord for giving me this opportunity and blessing me with this great fortune. I will not squander it," he promised, wearing a big black cowboy hat and a huge grin.

Wanless, who is single, lives with his mother and father on the family's 320-acre ranch near Mission, where they raise cattle, sheep and horses. They don't own a phone, a mobile home of theirs was repossessed last year, and records show they have fallen $3,552 behind in their property taxes.

-more at link

[vadawg]

1. good luck to them, couldnt have happened to nicer people.

[uppityperson]

2. Good luck to them, and I hope they are able to help their community also. More from article...

"The Wanless home stands in a grove of trees in Todd County, home to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. It was the nation's seventh-poorest county in 2007, according to the Census Bureau."

Hoping they are able to help their larger community also.

[Ezlivin]

3. Imagine the people on Wall Street who earned that much EVERY year!

For most of us a lottery winning this big would take care of us and our extended family and friends for the rest of eternity.

For others it was just an annual paycheck.

Unbelievable.

Go Neal!

[cboy4]

4. Happy someone who needs the money won .. not so happy the first person

he chose to thank is the "Lord."

Nothing against the Lord per se, but these Lord-thanking people often turn out to be fundies whose votes and beliefs make other people's lives unpleasant.

[lame54]

5. He'll be in debt in six months...

:evilgrin:

[TlalocW]

6. He's already wasting his money on cowboy hats

:)

TlalocW

[Captain Hilts]

7. Good for them. nt