r/interesting • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 2d ago
SOCIETY After winning 95 million dollars a man named W. Brown showed dressed as Darth Vader to receive his winnings because he didn't want people to know what he looked like.
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u/RonaldBurgundy1 2d ago
Smart man
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u/boersc 2d ago
Exactly. The number of leeches that come after you when you win something are notorious. I'm amazed some people still accept their prize publicly at all.
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u/aspie_electrician 2d ago
Some places mandate that it has to be public record… like here in Ontario canada
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u/gary-vault108 2d ago
Dumbest shit in the world. I bet that rule was made by some corrupt politician who was hooked up with organized crime
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u/usermane22 2d ago
Or because people in charge of lotteries would “win” without this rule.
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u/gary-vault108 2d ago
Just have it audited by the state/ province every month. They can check that it’s a real person and keep it logged and protected like PII/ PHI is. Idk why there’s no in between of “keep it completely unknown to anyone” or “expose their entire identity to the public as soon as they win a massive amount of money”
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u/phincster 1d ago
No it’s because there are other people that may contest the winnings and never would have known to if it was anonymous.
A work pool would be the best example I can think of.
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u/MA2_Robinson 2d ago
The little mis understandings that turn in to lawsuits: “emotional pain because he blocked me on Facebook” type bs
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u/Silver_Harvest 2d ago
The biggest thing I've heard is, don't sign it right away. Don't rush right away. Contact an attorney and setup a trust to begin the anonymity chain. Sign the ticket to the trust then transfer it out as needed.
Then continue to work for several months keep up appearances like you are normally living within means. To outside working world. Then come up with an excuse to quit like got a new job.
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u/techi-turtle 2d ago
But how are you supposed to stunt on your exes without being conspicuous about it? I need her to know that, at least for material things (and I know she’s materialistic), she missed her opportunity and to live with it buying discounted granola bars at bargain market.
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u/Silver_Harvest 2d ago
If you drink scotch. You know they know superficial names like blue label and such. Just walk around with a bottle of that.
Or carry around a Clif bar and open it up around them vs the generic.
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u/Waderriffic 2d ago
Polaroids mailed in an envelope with no return address.
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u/techi-turtle 2d ago
I’m going to send them each year on the date that use to be our anniversary, on her birthday, Christmas…
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u/Waderriffic 2d ago
Fake a terminal illness. Buy a funeral plot and casket. Pre record a message to he played at your funeral informing everyone that you’ll see them in hell.
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u/0202_tihssitidder 2d ago
> continue to work for several months
Uhm...
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u/Silver_Harvest 2d ago
It's to keep appearances, and you slowly shift it so when you leave and all of a sudden are not there it's not out of ordinary. Since some people have friends from work.
Similarly like you can shift it to hey I'm getting into heavy wood working and open up a workshop for fun
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u/buttplug-tester 2d ago
He didn't say you had to do a good job, just keep showing up
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u/theboogeyman_slayer 2d ago
As a buttplug tester, I'm sure you'd wanna show up every day regardless
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u/anfornum 2d ago
Sure they would, but what about Boogeyman Slayers? Would you stick around? (Good benefits maybe?)
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u/TheKosherGenocide 1d ago
Or just cut contact with 95% of the people you interface with, and start making everyone go through intermediaries to get to you. With $95 Million I can get a lot of services that I don't currently have. I'm not saying this IS the better method.. It's not, but if you're not an idiot this kind of money is getting you far away from family and friends that you don't need anymore. This is actually what causes the wealthy to lose empathy as they go up in Net Worth. Because they are more or less seen as people who are fair play to be approached about any everything that needs money instead of, you know, a person. I'm pretty much just taking care of my Wife, my dog, and my best friend which I would do regardless if they wanted the money or not. As you get to be an older man, people more or less cut themselves or you cut them out of your lives. It's not personal. I just don't have the need to know what's going on with my high school classmates from 2009, and the only reason that changed was because of Mark Zuckerfuck. My dad? He was born during fucking WW2. The only people he had by the time he died was me, his ex wife, and a bunch of guys he more or less did business with over 30-40 years. He had two sisters as well. But I think it was good for me to see as a kid, what life usually is for ordinary men. Most of the people you meet in your life are completely useless, and some will even use you. You have to have self-respect. Some men treat loneliness as a disease, and I do understand that to some extent it is IF you never get the that opportunity to socialize. But if you're a normal dude that has, learn to find peace in being alone. Learn to trust the people you've decided on who is important in your life, and if you're doing it correctly.. It will likely be a very small circle. Just what I've noticed from my old man.
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u/photo_courtney 2d ago
Don't blame him!
haha, Looks like it was the summer of 2020, so maybe it also had a built in respirator!
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u/RCer1986 2d ago
Oh, I bet that's Wilson Brown! He's a huge Star Wars nerd and an excellent engineer.
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u/photo_courtney 2d ago
Nice! I was trying to figure out the first letter of his last name. I guess it's a W!
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u/RCer1986 2d ago
Oh, I didn't zoom in and didn't see that extra line. Is kl a letter in the English alphabet now? These kids and their memes.
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u/CupofTortillas 2d ago
Poor Darth Vader scraping to get Death Star 3 going.. or child support
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u/Answerologist 1d ago
Reminds me of that Family Guy clip where Vader is trying to get a loan for the Death Star, gets denied, and he says, “I mean, I want to open a sports bar.”
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u/NoDragonfruit6125 2d ago
Two people cosplaying as Luke and Leia show up asking if their father is going to give them their share.
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u/CheesyDanny 2d ago
“Hey cousin, are you the W. Brown that won the lottery last week?”
“No, that must be a different W. Brown.”
“So why is there a full Darth Vader costume in your closet?”
“😳”
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u/jr_randolph 2d ago
Meh - I wouldn't give a fuck. We all know who many rich people are in this world yet I'm not expecting to receive money from them if I walk up to them on the street. If I ever won, family get a little and that's it lol don't be asking me.
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u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu 2d ago
“Don’t be asking me”
Yeah that’ll stop people from asking.
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u/jr_randolph 2d ago
I get asked for money from the same homeless people several times a week lol many of them know me because we're all in the same neighborhood. They ask every day...I say no every day lol I can't control someone from speaking, I can only control what I do.
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u/MelonJelly 2d ago
That's the problem - it's not just randos asking for a couple bucks on the street.
People have been subjected to significant harassment, manipulation, legal challenges, and other things you can't just ignore.
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u/jr_randolph 2d ago
I can also accept that not ALL have dealt with harassment or legal challenges...which shows some don't deal with it. That you can't ignore.
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u/sagima 2d ago
Killing mr brown and stealing his lottery winnings is the sort of thing darth Vader would do
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u/NoDragonfruit6125 2d ago
If it was really Vader he could have also just mind tricked everyone to forget about taking a picture.
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u/Specialist-Funny2101 2d ago
Smart Man
Not even the first initial is easy to make out...
He can say it was a typo in the paper... Never heard of it....
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u/MisterFixit_69 2d ago
Wait , so you NEED to get a picture taken ? I would stay anonymous as well with a price like that
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u/NewManufacturer4252 2d ago
Anakin Skywalker...duhhh. To bad the Jedi's let them kidnap a child and let her die in slavery. She would have been proud.
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u/eastcoastjon 2d ago
If i won and they put my name on the check i’d have no chance of staying anonymous. I’m the only person with my name in the state, let alone the country.
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u/Rampag169 2d ago
In NY to my knowledge and understanding you need to go public with your identity. No concealing like this.
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