Homeless People Who Won the Lottery

anyone can win the lottery but some people need the money more than others imagine being homeless at one of the lowest points of your life living on the streets only to be blessed with the lottery win that's the story of the people in this video whilst buying lottery tickets definitely isn't the best way to get rich the story of these homeless people will make you glad they want amazing number 10 Michael egg falls 61 year old michael egg falls of Aspen Colorado was homeless for six years after losing his business and going through a divorce

but he never let his misfortune dampen his spirits he was described by gas station clerk Gabby Garcia as a regular lottery player who only usually won a dollar or two some might say that there were more important things to be spending his money on but Mike was bet paid off beating the astronomical odds of eight hundred and forty thousand to one he won five hundred thousand dollars on a $10 ticket five hundred thousand dollars that's half a million imagine dropping that chunk of change into your wallet what did Michael plan to do with all that

cold hard cash where most people would have bought a mini mansion or at least restarted their business Michael only wanted to do one thing to find his daughter who he hadn't seen for over 20 years number nine Emily Rhea's just off the infamous route 66 doesn't exactly sound like the most likely place to catch a lucky break but that's precisely what happened to the next person on this list when Texan Emily Reyes found herself part of the growing homeless population in her hometown desperate and addicted to drugs and alcohol Emily hit rock bottom when she

ended up in prison after stealing to support her habit when she was released from the Amarillo jail Emily surprised more than a few people but perhaps herself most of all by buckling down and accomplishing the truly momentous task of pulling her life back together with a minimal support system she promptly checked herself into a woman's homeless shelter and craving by craving clawed her way to sobriety she was celebrating six months of being sober when she bought a Texas two-step lottery ticket in a stroke of good luck Emily won two hundred thousand dollars matching all four

numbers in the Thursday drawing she planned to use the money to get a fresh start in life made sure to pay it forward by sharing some of her winnings with some other women at the shelter number eight grant Freeman by all accounts grant Freeman shouldn't have been able to win the lottery considering that there is no actual lottery in Nevada an avid gambler Freeman made his way to Las Vegas with high hopes of hitting it big along the strip unfortunately as so often happens he instead lost everything and was forced to live on the streets

begging spare change off of tourists only to spend it all on the slot machines that very same night but he could only go so long before such an unhealthy lifestyle took its toll on him Freeman got himself the heck out of Dodge hitchhiking 40 miles to Nipton California it was there that he spent $2 on two Mega Millions tickets which he paid for in pennies I bet that cashier was amused the lucky stars must have been shining on him that day because Freeman one on both tickets $8 on one and on the second he won

an enormous 180 thousand dollars he has since reportedly turned his life around and has learned his lesson about gambling though he is known to buy a ticket or to once in a while number 7 Victor Herrera there is no denying that while Miami Florida is considered a beautiful place it also has some of the most brutally hot summers Victor Herrera found himself face to face with that heat when he became homeless following a divorce he and his son were thankfully able to move in with his sister but her apartment was cramped before they got there

and lacked air conditioning one night it was particularly hot so hot in fact that Herrera found he couldn't sleep hoping for relief he got up and walked down to the store to purchase a bag of ice instead he came out with a $5 lottery ticket that particular ticket beat the 50 million to one odds and earned Herrara an astounding 250,000 dollars that very night he his son and his sister checked into a hotel and turned the a/c on full blast Herrera has since used his winnings to buy an actual house for his child to grow

up in with air conditioning of course number six Erik from magic of rahat the next person in this list didn't even officially win the lottery but a homeless man named Erik and internet stardom after being featured on the hit YouTube channel magic of rahat in this particular video roh-hatz gave Eric a lottery ticket and handed the clerk one thousand dollars so that Eric could experience what it was like to win the lottery millions of hearts across the globe melted when Eric burst into tears of relief and even offered to share his winnings with rah hat

touched by his selfless gesture the people of the internet banded together to raise enough money to give this young man a fresh start twenty thousand dollars seemed like a lofty goal but this goal was not simply met it was exceeded a total amount of forty-four thousand dollars was raised to help get Eric back on his feet the majority of the money was used to rent and furnish a house whilst the rest was put into a monitored bank account talk about getting lucky great job rahat and the people of the Internet number five Steve boric imagine

if he got the win of lifetime you buy that ticket because hey why not it's fun but you're not expecting that much after all how many of us even know someone who's won more than ten bucks in the lottery but imagine if you want twenty five thousand dollars what would you do with that money would you buy a car maybe you could finally pay some of those bills you're behind on Steve boric couldn't even get a hotel room because this homeless lottery winner was not allowed to claim his prize due to a situation in his

life two years prior he lacked the ID required to collect such a large winning when he tried to get a new one he was told he needed a birth certificate or passport the real catch-22 was that both of these documents required a form of identification to get them in the first place after five months of trying steve could only hope he'd be inside by christmas time thankfully some amazing individuals at CBC News volunteered their time to make a few calls and track down the proper paperwork for him to receive his birth certificate while Steve did

miss his Christmas deadline a little more than eight months after he hit it big he was finally allowed to collect his money number four lászló Andrews check this person won one of the largest amounts in this video but it's what he intends to do with this money that really earns him his spot in 2013 lászló Andrews check was a recovering alcoholic who was in debt up to his eyeballs he'd been homeless for seven years and described his life as him always trying to plug holes by making new ones facing yet another year of homelessness Lazlo

made a choice that most would have considered foolish when he stopped at a train station on his way to Budapest and spent the last few coins to his name on a lottery ticket he recalled picking six numbers only to have the cashier remind him it needed to be seven he told her just to make it 24 it wasn't like it ever matters ho-hoo but it did Laszlo stunningly won 636 million forint that's the equivalent to nearly 2.5 million American dollars in 2017 obviously this changed his life forever what's equally amazing was that his win wasn't

even noticed until 2014 when he made a significant donation to the homeless shelter he and his wife had lived that this guy was a careful spender with his and his family's debts paid off this amazingly unique man turned his attention towards creating a foundation for addict and battered women hoping to offer them refuge in a world that so often tries to deny their very existence number three Krystal Nelson Krystal Nelson was living in a cramped truck with a friend for five whole months delivering papers for the daily journal in Illinois when she found out she'd

won $50,000 on a Powerball ticket in July of 2017 despite this shocking win Nelson maintained that her life would not change no big spending or impulse purchases for this gem of a human being she didn't even seem to be in a hurry to find an apartment though she thought she might get a new car and was going to help her brother in Arizona pay off his house think about it you're living in a car for five months with another person and the first thing you'd think of doing when you win the lottery isn't getting a

new place to stay yourself it's helping your family keep their she certainly set the bar high for selflessness though she did admit that she would like to possibly take a vacation to Arizona or Kentucky sometime and that it might be nice to find someplace to live that was more permanent than a parking lot number two Dennis Maher and Dennis had been homeless since 1978 approximately 25 years before he won $50,000 in the Michigan lottery in 2013 did he use this money to buy a flat-screen TV or a shining new truck maybe just the house nope

Dennis bought himself a new tenth no one would have faulted him if he'd used that money to help get his life back together but apparently as far as he was concerned it already was he used the rest of the money to help out his fellow members of the homeless community as someone who knew what it was like to hit rock bottom he decided to pay it forward and share $100 with just shy of 500 other homeless people he had his critics some people who stated that if he couldn't even take care of himself he had

no business helping others but I think that most of us agree that this man is incredible and one heck of a decent human being number one Emily leach gives ticket to homeless man this one isn't exactly about someone so generous Emily leach struck paydirt in January of 2011 winning a whopping 1 million dollars in Mountain View California she used this much needed money to pay off a substantial medical debt by yet more tickets and to pass out random acts of kindness one such act was to hand $100 to a homeless man behind her in a

line at the very same gas station where she purchased her original winning ticket in the process of this transaction emily claims she accidentally handed the man one of her scratch tickets an act of generosity that turned out to be far grander and either of them could have imagined when she learned the same homeless man won two hundred and sixty thousand dollars on her ticket and was according to her even claiming that some of her luck had rubbed off on him she complained to the California Lottery Commission investigations into her claims seem only to prove that

leach gave that man the ticket footage even reportedly shows her giving tickets to several other people in the store the Lottery Commission maintained that it could not comment on who owned the ticket until it was claimed but they did say that the chances of winning 1 million in the previous January's jackpot were one in 1.2 million but to win that 260 thousand dollars was a whopping one in 3.9 million odds so there you have it what would you do if you won the jackpot let me know in the comment section down below and if you

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