A hospital worker won the Powerball. Her prize: $758.7 million — and police outside her house.:
The entire planet now knows Mavis Wanczyk…
So much so that police are having to protect her home..
By law, many must have their names publicized or do mandatory news conferences — a convention that serves to both silence whispers that the lottery system is fixed and to convince other would-be ticket-buyers that “this, too, could be you.”
But the publicity that comes with a person’s newfound and sudden wealth can turn a lottery winner into a target.
Perhaps with that in mind, police have beefed up patrols around the home of Mavis Wanczyk, according to the Associated Press. On Wednesday Wanczyk was a hospital worker. On Thursday, she became the winner of the largest undivided lottery jackpot in North American history — some $758.7 million.
She is no longer a hospital worker.
“This is a great thing,” Officer Michael Wilk, a spokesman for Chicopee police, said Friday, adding that a police car is parked in Wanczyk’s driveway. “We want her to know we’re there if she needs us.”
So tell me again.. winning the lottery is NOT a curse disguised as earthly goodness?
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