The 10 Stupid Things That People Have Done After Winning the Lottery

9) Forgetting about the Ticket – Ron Yurcus, $1 million(9 of 10)

9) Forgetting about the Ticket – Ron Yurcus, $1 million(9 of 10)

Ron Yurcus was a former chaplain in a hospice in Illinois. Both him and his wife did a lot of charity work and were regulars at buying lottery tickets. It became so regular that when they used to buy a ticket they would leave it lying around on their desk, without checking if they had won. So when in November 2012, when Ron cleaned his table to make room for the new computer he had bought, he found dozens of lottery tickets on the table. He decided to check if he had won in any of the tickets, and it turns out that he just won a million dollars 3 months earlier.