There are really no wonders in this world, do you believe it? In 1997, an American won about 190 million yuan when he bought a lottery ticket, and then after 2 years, he committed suicide by drinking a bullet, does this sound a bit strange, but it really happened in reality. Let's take a look!
On the evening of May 22, 1999, Billy walked into his ex-wife's house and found that the room was empty, his ex-wife Barbara was on her way to pick up the children at school, 2 days ago, Billy begged his ex-wife to reunite with him, but was refused, but in order to let the child experience the full family atmosphere, Barbara made a concession, she agreed to Billy to come to her house and have dinner with them, which is why Billy is here at this moment.
Billy went into his wife's bedroom, he was so familiar with everything here that he began to sink into the memories, as if he had returned to the past, he smiled like a fool, and then looked at his watch again, "It's time for them to come back." Billy stripped off his clothes and pulled a revolver out of his trouser pocket, which he held in his mouth, closed his eyes, and tried to listen to the gunshots...
When the family saw Billy's body, everyone was frightened, and before his ex-wife Barbara could cover the eyes of the two children, she was so frightened that she stepped back and slammed the bedroom door, and Barbara found a letter in the pocket of the deceased's pants, which was scrawled in scrawled handwriting:
I don't want that, I just want you.
The most ironic thing is that Billy, who committed suicide by drinking bullets, just won a grand prize worth 190 million yuan 2 years ago, so why in just 2 years, Billy will suddenly be reduced from a billionaire to an outcast who is completely desperate for life? And to find out the ins and outs of this incident, it all has to start from the beginning!
Billy Bob Harrell, American, born in Hambo, Texas, believes in Christianity, and has been going to church with his family since he was a child, after which he went to Texas Bible College and thought he would become a Pentecostal missionary, but because of his poor memory, Billy's missionary dream was not realized.
Billy then joined the army as one of the members of the U.S. Marine Corps, and in December 1971, when he was returning home from a vacation from the Marine Corps, he met Barbara at a church Christmas dinner, they dated a total of 3 times, and when they returned to the unit, they corresponded with each other from time to time, and it wasn't long before they got married.
After Billy's service in the Marine Corps expired, he began working for an drilling company and worked for 12 years at the company, which went out of business and was forced to find a hard job at Home Depot, where he bought goods on the shelves every day, and because his salary could not support his three children, his wife had to start working, and the children were fostered by his parents.
Probably living too hard, Billy often fantasizes that he will one day win the lottery so that he will never have to do these hard work again, Billy buys a few lottery tickets every Wednesday and Saturday, he often uses his children's birthday numbers to bet, but his luck is always not good.
On Saturday, June 28, 1997, Billy went to texaco star supermarket and bought 4 "Lotto Texas" lottery tickets, and when the winning list was announced that night, Billy was sleeping soundly at home, and when he got up the next morning, Billy did not go to see the news of the winning numbers, as if he had not bought them.
On June 29, 1997, when he came home from work, Billy flipped through the newspaper of the day with his legs crossed as usual, and when he saw the winning number in the newspaper, he almost didn't fall off the couch — he won the lottery, and it was still the jackpot, which was 31 million US dollars, equivalent to about 190 million yuan.
The next day, Texas Lottery staff announced to the outside world that Billy was the only winner of the $31 million film jackpot in Texas. And the money, Texas Film will pay Billy in 25 installments, and Billy will receive $1.24 million (about 7.86 million yuan) of lottery prizes per year.
Billy won the lottery
On the day of the lottery, the Texas Lottery paid the $1.24 million to Billy, and billy hired a lawyer to persuade him to deposit the money into the trust fund and let the professional fund manager help him take care of it, so as to avoid tax, financial and other related problems, but Billy refused, and he planned to spend the money himself.
After getting the $1.24 million, Billy bought an entire ranch on the first day, followed by a house for himself, his two brothers, and a cousin who didn't usually interact much, and he bought a new car for his wife and two underage children, even though the two children were unable to drive at all.
In addition, Billy is also particularly fond of charity, he donated 10% of the $1.24 million to the Texas Church and another church in Colorado, and usually as soon as the church people ask him for money, he will immediately write a check without saying a word.
On Christmas Day 1997, Billy bought 48 turkey dinners and gave them to the poorer families in the town, and what's more, when the residents of Billy's town knew that Billy had won the jackpot, these strangers who had never looked at Billy before began to kiss Billy.
Suddenly, everyone came to borrow money from Billy, even if the family was very rich, and even when Billy refused, they would accuse Billy, saying that he had endless money, and he was still so stingy, Billy also because of good face, the money lent out became more and more more, these borrowers began to become more and more unscrupulous, some residents even stopped spending their own money, and because they did not spend their own money, even they began to become big.
Billy
The whole town seemed to go crazy, and billy's family began to lose sleep, because the phones at home were always ringing, and all of these calls were made by residents who came to him to borrow money, and these residents were like blood-sucking ants, biting Billy to death.
As the saying goes, a rich can not afford to have 10 poor relatives in the family, it was not long before Billy's 1.24 million US dollars were squandered by him, and because of money, more and more beautiful girls began to throw hugs at him, and soon, Billy found a younger girlfriend outside behind his wife's back, and in order to please this girlfriend, Billy also did not hesitate to buy a car for the new girlfriend by borrowing and swiping credit cards, buying all kinds of jewelry, jewelry, cosmetics.
As a result, because of the profligacy, Billy began to be in debt, but Billy was a good face, although his first bonus had been spent, and he still owed a bunch of debts, he still wanted to maintain the previous high-end luxury, superior life, he has completely indulged in the life of everyone to him stars and moons. He even did not hesitate to lend the borrowed money to others, and punched his swollen face and filled himself with fat to reflect his "face".
In February 1998, Billy's wife decided to divorce him and arranged for a lawyer to draw up an agreement to split the bonus, and Billy was now anxious about the loan that could not be repaid, Billy knew that he had only received the first year's bonus, and he could receive $1.24 million per year for 24 consecutive years.
But his loan was about to expire, and he refused to let his quality of life decline, he desperately needed a sum of money, at this time, a company called Stone Street Capital came to him, Stone Street Capital was willing to give Billy a loan, but the interest was very large, according to Stone Street Capital, they could immediately provide Billy with a $2.25 million in cash, but they were going to be billy for 5 years worth about $6 million in lottery prizes, so it was calculated. Interest is as high as 3.75 million.
It was obviously a very uneconomical transaction, but Billy couldn't find any other loans, because in the United States, lottery winners can't use installment prizes as collateral, Billy's lawyers and family have dissuaded him, but Billy seems to have gone completely crazy, he doesn't care about the $3.75 million in interest, anyway, he has more money, without these 5 years of bonuses, he has 19 years of prize money left.
So he signed this very unreasonable contract, after signing this "unequal" contract, on the morning of May 22, 1999, he tried to get his ex-wife to reunite, but was refused, and near the afternoon, he opened the "unequal" contract, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had lost, as long as he thought that Stone Street Capital had done nothing and took more than $2 million from him, he began to have angina.
Probably unable to accept this reality, Billy completely lost his mind, he bought a revolver, and went to his ex-wife's house to end the crazy nightmare life of 2 years with a bullet.
Billy's tombstone
Aristotle said, "The so-called slave, the desire triumphs over his intellect." If a person can not control the desire, it will inevitably become a slave to desire, whether a person is happy, does not depend on how much money he has, but whether he understands enough, in fact, people do not need too much to live well, sometimes want too much, but unhappy, our human heart is probably the size of a fist, too much, will support the heart to break, just so-called: less is more, more is confused!
Glory has its own wealth and disease, poor and bitter to give birth to longevity, this world is dialectical, there is yin and yang, no one should think of all the good, what do you think about this matter? You can also leave a message or comment below, and your favorite friends can also click below to follow!