A hospital worker won the Powerball. Her prize: $758.7 million and police outside her house.
too many sleazy types out there.
<Wanczyk took a lump-sum payment of $480 million, leaving her $336 million after taxes.
According to the Associated Press, "members of the media and others have descended on the neighborhood."
Wilk told the AP that neighbors reported other people hanging around "knocking on doors, asking people where she lives. We're not going to tolerate her being harassed or bothered."
Falling prey to fraudsters or robbers is one thing, but for some lottery winners, a life-changing win has morphed into a death sentence.
In November 2015, Craigory Burch Jr. matched all five numbers in the Georgia Fantasy 5 drawing and won a $434,272 jackpot, The Washington Post's Lindsey Bever reported.
Two months later, police said, Burch was killed in his home by seven masked men who kicked in his front door. His family members said the public announcement of the lottery winnings had made him a target.
Abraham Shakespeare won a $30 million lottery prize in 2006. Two years later, he was approached by Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore, who said she was writing a book about how people were taking advantage of him. She soon became his financial adviser and slowly siphoned away his money, according to Fox News.
"She got every bit of his money," Assistant State Attorney Jay Pruner said in closing arguments. "He found out about it and threatened to kill her. She killed him first.">
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Exactly.
I sometimes buy one ticket when the pot gets very big. Just one. While speculating about what it would be like to win such a large amount of money, I told my husband we'd have to move. He asked why. I told him we couldn't do that to our wonderful neighbors. I'd put my house on the market and move away before I even considered claiming the money.
In many ways, winning big in a lottery would ruin your life. (I console myself with that theory. 
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They were down the hallway in the government building I was in, interviewing some local politician in a suit.
We weren't being kid or noisy, and kept our voices down. We were trying to finalize the details of a reunification plan for my foster kids, so they were there, the case worker, the social worker, the therapist, the grandparents. The whole point of that building was to serve vulnerable children. Really all I cared about. We didn't have keys for side rooms because it was the weekend, so the hallway was where we were stuck.
The crew stopped the interview, the news lady yelled "Shut the fuck up!" At orphans. In what was essentially an orphanage (or at least a building dedicated to them). The suit looked embarrassed but didn't back us and the crew looked embarrassed, but the sound guy still came over and said "Everything you fucking say is picked up on these fucking mics. So unless you want us to record your fucking conversation, shut the fuck up."
We were all kind of shocked to be treated like that. Still kind of furious.
So, for the rest of the interview, I just kept repeating the words "penis" and "vagina." Not yelling, but definitely loud enough to be picked up by the microphone. Guy should have gone back to the van and gotten a different microphone. "Penis penis penis. Vagina! Penis! Vagina vagina vagina! Penis!"
It's the most passive aggressive fun I've ever had. Got an award later that year for being a good foster parent. 
So the state can force winners to sit for a news conference. They can't withhold the money just because the winners aren't particularly telegenic.
