If you ever win more than, say, a million? Go to the biggest city in your state, pick the biggest fucking law firm, and tell them you need their help to handle a sudden windfall.

They'll help you build a trust, and claim the ticket on behalf of the trust. So the winner will be the trust. They'll also file all the appropriate legal documents and affidavits claiming you are eligible to win.

Even if the State insists on speaking to the trustee (you!) and verifying it themselves, the winner will go down as -- and be publicized as the trust. And your big firm lawyer will be the one whose photo is on the wall under something like "50 million winner! 'FYIGM Trust"

It's worth the money not just because of keeping anonymity, but they'll help you find an accountant and tax attorney to structure how you get your winnings, and you can also keep a bunch of it safe from yourself -- and others.

Stick 80%+ into a trust where you can't touch the principal at all (or doing so is a huge, time-consuming process to prevent yourself from impulsive moves or manipulation) means when someone DOES work out you're rich, tough shit. You can't touch it.

You just have that 20% and the passive income.

(25m, for instance, in a trust is about 500k a year conservatively after taxes in passive income -- that's about 2.5%, minus taxes. 500k a fucking year after taxes is a lot of goddamn money, especially since you're likely debt free as well. Like 40k a month is fucking insane money)

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They're offering replacements as part of the recall. They actually have a whole selection of products that it can choose from if you don't want a new air fryer.

Wtf are you on about, nukes?

You still haven’t answered why taking Putin’s side makes you anti war. Most likely either your dear leaders in the Republican Party told you or the Stalin voice in your head did.

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I had a half of a breakfast burrito in my fridge and now its gone. Fucking Reggie.

Fucking idiots if it wasn't for NATO Putin would be marching from Ukraine to Warsaw to Berlin.

Related story: Texas and Michigan officials say they didn't know water, soil from Ohio train wreck would be transported into their jurisdictions

Edit: Fixed link title

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Cameras. Even if the cameras suck they can look at it and go, 'okay, that is a late model white Accord at time of purchase, you drive one.' Boom. Done. Bob claims he bought the ticket - look over and there's no car of his there, or anyone remotely close.

Debit cards can buy them. Sync transactions, etc.

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About a third allow fully anonymous claims.

Even the ones that don't, in many (perhaps most) trusts can claim it. So winners set up a trust, and lawyers working for the trust claim it on behalf of the trust.

So the 'winner' might be two guys in really good suits with the name "ABC Trust". Now, the lawyers have to attest to a whole bunch of shit to ensure it's not an ineligible winner hiding behind the trust, but a big-name law firm isn't going to perjure themselves over what's really a pretty small amount of billable hours. THEY aren't winning tens or hundreds of millions.

Because if you win even a few million, a good law firm and account is worth every penny just for the work they'll do, but not having every dumb fuck you went to school with known you won is goddamn priceless.

Article:

Weeks after a train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border left hazardous chemicals burning from railcars, fears of the potential impacts are being felt in places far from the accident.

Grocery chain Giant Eagle, with hundreds of stores in five states including Ohio and Pennsylvania, pulled bottled water off shelves out of an “abundance of caution” because it was bottled 25 miles from the derailment.

Two high school basketball teams elsewhere in Ohio forfeited games rather than venturing to the region to play.

More than a thousand miles away, Houston-area politicians rushed to assure residents anxious about firefighting wastewater from the derailment site set for disposal in Texas.

The Feb. 3 derailment occurred when 38 Norfolk Southern Corp. railcars fell off the track in East Palestine, Ohio, some of those with hazardous materials catching fire. Three days later, the railroad burned vinyl chloride from five tanker cars to avert a potential explosion. The incident has raised concern from residents about the long-term health risks near and around the village of 4,700 people.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan said on Tuesday that the agency will order Norfolk Southern to pay for the necessary cleanup in East Palestine, Ohio, after one of its trains carrying hazardous materials derailed. Photo: Matt Freed/Associated Press

The Environmental Protection Agency has said the region’s air and drinking water are safe and that monitoring will continue. Earlier this week EPA Administrator Michael Regan and other government officials drank water from the East Palestine municipal water authority in a show of confidence in the federal and state environmental testing that has shown that the village water supply is safe. 

Some of the reaction in recent days to more far-reaching chemical impacts has come amid people raising concerns on social media.

On Facebook, a handful of people posted questions about whether Giant Eagle water bottled south of East Palestine was safe to drink and said they had called the company to ask. The grocery chain put out a statement Tuesday that it would pull water products bottled in Salineville, Ohio, about 25 miles from East Palestine, from store shelves.

The company said its water comes from a protected spring not near any affected ground water sources and that third-party lab testing had revealed no abnormalities. Still, it said it would pull the water sourced from the Salineville facility, which makes up its gallon-size or larger bottled water options, until further notice, while health officials continue to review the impacts of the derailment.

Marguerite Parker, a 66-year-old retired nurse in Vermilion, Ohio, 100 miles west of the derailment, said she wasn’t personally concerned about its impacts until she saw a news report about Giant Eagle. She checked six gallons of water she had recently purchased for cooking and drinking on her farm and saw they had been bottled three days after the incident.

Giant Eagle grocery stores pulled bottled water off shelves because it was bottled 25 miles from the derailment.

“Who would think it’s going to reach out this far, the problems?” Ms. Parker said. “I’m not using that water.”

Meanwhile, concerns about breathing in the air around East Palestine led two high school basketball teams to decline to play games there or elsewhere in Columbiana County, according to the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Teams from Beachwood, near Cleveland, and Bristolville, forfeited end-of-season tournament games when the host schools declined to move them.

The Bristol school district attributed the decision to the concerns of families. “The safety of our athletes, families, and the community comes first and foremost,” it wrote on Facebook.

In the Houston area, some residents of Deer Park, Texas, posted online that they were rattled to discover firefighting wastewater from the incident was headed to a hazardous waste disposal facility there.

Lina Hidalgo, an elected executive whose role is akin to that of a mayor, said in a news conference Thursday that she was taken aback to learn that some 30 trucks a day of the water had begun arriving in Harris County last week. She told residents her office is researching the transportation and disposal of the water to make sure it meets regulations.

Texas Molecular, the company handling the firefighting wastewater, has been disposing of similar hazardous water for over 40 years, said Jimmy Bracher, vice president of sales. 

“When you have an emergency, it is prudent to call on an expert,” he wrote in an email. “We are proud that our expertise, developed over many years, can help both the country and the environment recover from this tragic accident.”

They vette the ticket winners pretty thoroughly when the prizes are that big. They don't care if nobody contests it. They don't hand over hundreds of millions without confirmation, first.

You're just spewing hyperbole because you misunderstand my comment.

It goes like this: "Wait, that comment is neutral, it isn't anti-cop! That person must be pro-cop and hate justice!" That's the level of "thinking" in this sub.

Exactly. Dropping the charges tells us nothing. It is not a signal that the charges were fake, or that there was no evidence.

So many people confuse knowing the cops are corrupt, or being anti-police, and the associated hyperbole, with understands what information is learned from an action. Critical thinking is dead this generation. Hopefully their kids will rebel by reading books or something.

The southern quarter of the state just happens to be where the people live, hence the article. Anywhere else in Michigan no one would give a shit.

As mentioned in the article -- store cameras if they have it -- I think some of the self-serve machines have cameras and snap stills like ATMs do as well.

Then some simple stuff like --- where you even in that area geographically at the time the ticket was sold, etc. Like if you're Bob from Newark claiming you won a ticket in Sacramento, they're gonna be more skeptical than if you live 6 blocks from the store it was sold at.

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I'm waiting for a v for vendetta uprising

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Lol in Cali a 4 might make your monitor shake depending on how your place is built. Outside you feel nothing. Granted most buildings that are built in the 90s I want to say were made up to code.

yeah, anything less than 5 I don't even open my eyes for. Just a mild rumble.

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