The World's Unluckiest Lottery Ticket | Tales From the Bottle

If almost every lottery ticket is a loser, what does it take for a lottery ticket to be considered unlucky?
"A lottery (or lotto) is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. Some governments outlaw lotteries, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments. The most common regulation is prohibition of sale to minors, and vendors must be licensed to sell lottery tickets. Although lotteries were common in the United States and some other countries during the 19th century, by the beginning of the 20th century, most forms of gambling, including lotteries and sweepstakes, were illegal in the U.S. and most of Europe as well as many other countries. This remained so until well after World War II. In the 1960s, casinos and lotteries began to re-appear throughout the world as a means for governments to raise revenue without raising taxes.
Lotteries come in many formats. For example, the prize can be a fixed amount of cash or goods. In this format, there is risk to the organizer if insufficient tickets are sold. More commonly, the prize fund will be a fixed percentage of the receipts. A popular form of this is the "50-50" draw, where the organizers promise that the prize will be 50% of the revenue. Many recent lotteries allow purchasers to select the numbers on the lottery ticket, resulting in the possibility of multiple winners."
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[@cptkirkpyro5656]

glad to see you're still alive.

[@CathairBradley]

Drugs

[@Rorywizz]

ok

[@wow-roblox8370]

Fourth

[@axtra9561]

No

[@mitch_sorenstein]

"WHERE'S THE TRUCK, TONDA?"

[@Ronin777z]

She owes all her wealth to that guy, least she can do is buy the poor lad a truck

[@axtra9561]

@@Ronin777z ikr like you're getting paid over 300k a year and can't be bothered to spare part of it for the guy who brought you the opportunity 🤣 Some people wouldn't even tip anything but somebody else said that he tried get it all back to begin with then downsized his goal to just the truck, so if that's true then I can't lie he had it coming

[@kittytrail]

​@@axtra9561 don't underestimate the pressure of her very own family greediness who is legally controlling 51% of the corporation... 😉

[@axtra9561]

@@kittytrail yeah that's wild and if anything she should have learned from herself and assumed her family would try to pull what she did on the other waffle house employees unless it's just a few people

[@Jump-Shack]

Reminds me of the WHERE'S THE GIANT, MANSLEY? Line from Iron giant

[@biosec9361]

To win even slightly towards the IRS is impressive to be honest

[@joshuawadsworth6417]

Look up how the Church of Scientology fought against the IRS with an army of Pi's.

[@knellycornnan5132]

Yea. They are not as infallible as people think they are.

[@concept5631]

​@@joshuawadsworth6417 Only Scientologists would be crazy enough to challenge the IRS. Except for Tonda of course.

[@ballfartius]

​@@knellycornnan5132yeah well pee balls

[@miltong.1826]

Thanks Qxir for giving me an entertaining video to watch instead of studying for my finals 🤞

[@felipegutierrez2193]

Yup, procrastinating linear algebra.

[@goodnightmunchie]

He should be talking about black African stories 😮

[@kotzpenner]

Or me instead of work lol

[@rvh1999]

Grow up man

[@WretchedIcon]

I literally screamed when the IRS showed up. True horror.

[@maxb148]

Tbf all loterey winners are unlucky in some sense, in America a lottery winner is 7x more likely to go bankrupt than the average person

[@buzzlightyearpfp7641]

that kidnapping scene is actually something straight out of a movie

[@ALegendarySol]

In my heart and soul I just KNEW the IRS was the endgame boss of this story. I was actually pumped LMAO ..no way she won against the irs

[@MicrowaveDave-]

This is your best video as far as narrating and delivery.

[@tubularmonkeymaniac]

Love the videos man. I also love your illustrations. If you want some more dynamic illustrations for the thumbnails can you please consider using an illustrator rather than AI? AI is absolutely decimating us.

[@joshuaespinoza8325]

at about 7:25 I immediately knew it would be the IRS. when the reveal came, I may or may not have punched my wall in victory.

[@glenmcd]

The fact that people go after you once you've won a lottery is precisely why I never buy a ticket. I like peace. If lotteries want more business then winners must have complete privacy available by default. And screw the greedy IRS too.

[@mtflieutenant7693]

0:58 LMFAO BRO STARTED SPEAKING GERMANY!!!!

[@cornshot9857]

Ai thumbnail

[@Pr0toPoTaT0]

This was a fire story dude!!! Graphics were amazing too!!! 👏❤

[@LendriMujina]

She _really_ should have at least honored the truck. Even a high-end one is "only" 240k in 2023 (most being way less than that), still less than even the annual payment she arranged in 1999 without accounting for inflation.

[@Badficwriter]

LOL no way. That dude wasn't hurting. He ripped waitresses off by giving them lotto tickets instead of money. Waitresses need immediate money, not empty promises.

[@LendriMujina]

@@Badficwriter ...yeah, you're right, when you put it that way, that's just karma.

[@BR-ty3hx]

I'm out, hire artists instead of using AI for your thumbnails and scamming your audience to give their information to a shady company (creatordao)

[@rainierzx9677]

Who cares?

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

12:18 the architect of her own destruction

[@bholdr----0]

Here's a vid idea: how about one on the HORRIFIC dangers of the game Tug-of-War?! (Quotes from accidents go like: 'Our hand's skin came off like old gloves', 'He was cut in two', or simaler, I forget exactly...) horrible, though, with hundreds getting injured at a time! Ugh... cheers?

[@Utonian21]

So she refused to honor her agreement with her coworkers, but did honor her agreement with her family? Lmaoo

[@Badficwriter]

I'd argue that is more indicative of her nature. There was never an agreement to share lotto winnings with anyone, only dollar bill tips. Which the truck driver never gave. Lotto tickets are worthless most of the time.

[@shievapretty7463]

What a terrible thing to do. Imagine if you had made an agreement like that with a coworker. Her coworkers were all probably in the same position as her before she won the lottery. I wished that she had more problems.

[@fruity_smoothtv]

Please, don't do AI thumbnails.

[@mathiaswilhelm1902]

Stop being such a baby, if qxir were to hand make this thumbnail, it wouldn’t have mattered because he still wouldn’t have conditioned an artist to make it for him You know not everyone has the money or time to commission an artist to make everything

[@themccarthyproject8654]

No one cares shut up

[@esmondpuy9815]

Why not?

[@yurnit]

oh shut up, how bout you commission to draw thumbnails

[@roseCatcher_]

What's wrong? Is AI in the room with you right now?

[@welshgoldferret5107]

Greatest channel ever ya paddy! love your taffy neighbour xxx :D

[@ecgameplayer]

It's like the hope diamond, misfortune falls upon anyone who dares to possess it.

[@vasilzahariev5741]

Tonda won against everyone, so was the ticket really unlucky?

[@paulsaulpaul]

Pretty typical stuff. Even the kidnapping. Never agree to split winnings, stay as anonymous as your state law will allow, collect the winnings under the name of a trust if allowed by law, go off the grid and tell no one ever. Ideally, you should have no family. No kids, no siblings, no spouse. I have no living family for the last 2.5 years, which is an incredibly depressing way to live and there is no sense of purpose or reason to continue. So I may be bias on that last part wanting everyone else to share in such misery. But I still think it's good advice for the ideal lottery win scenario.

[@lSargontheGreatl]

Have you heard of the Cod Wars an Icelandic Military Dispute, over fishing zones off the coast of ICELAND between the tiny country and basically half of NATO and not a Gaming Fistfight at a Chicago Gamestop in which there were three of these "wars" and Iceland won every single one. Truly a based nation with a 100% victory rate in military conflicts?

[@metou3072]

My neighbor won the pick 6 in 96' for 1.7 million... Got 1.2 after taxes because he took annuity and got 68,000 a year for 20 yrs and dies 4 yrs into it from drugs. But because he was on disability he put the winnings in his father's name so he can still collect disability. So his dad got the checks the last 16 years

[@Ludak021]

Ah it's illegal in Alabama, BUT, if you come upon that illegal gambling money you are due taxes because those are Federal, and Federally, gambling is not only not illegal, it's encouraged. Avoiding taxes is illegal. Avoiding IRS is criminal.

[@funwithoutpants]

A physical Lotto Gun is about the most American thing I've ever seen.

[@Iceboy1309]

I wish I was unlucky enough to win the lottery

[@hydragony5223]

that would just be TERRIBLE😖😖

[@goodnightmunchie]

Probley voted for Biden 😮

[@14rss]

you’re probably the first person to ever say that in the history of mankind.

[@johnfitzgerald4456]

I hate to tell ya but lottery winners draws all kinds of attention and people to ya. Some only have eyes for the dough. So many bad stories of winners ending up broke.

[@vro1899]

@@goodnightmunchieThe Joe equivalent of TDS rears it's ugly head yet again. Get help friend, the secret pandemic of 2023 is truly a nefarious affliction.

[@purplehaze2358]

I'm.. genuinely shocked you didn't refer to the IRS as "the tax man".

[@WobblesandBean]

Yeaaaahhh, it's the tax maaaaaaan🎶

[@RC-nq7mg]

​@@WobblesandBeanIll tax the street - if you try to sit - ill tax your seat - if you get too cold - ill tax the heat

[@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378]

​@@RC-nq7mg 🎵 They tax you on your beneath 🎵 The Tax Maaaan!

[@hermitoldguy6312]

@@RC-nq7mg If you drive a car I'll tax the street, If you try to sit I'll tax your seat, If you get too cold I'll tax the heat, If you take a walk I'll tax your feet.

[@sirpsychosussy]

​@@RC-nq7mgah ahhhhh mr wilson

[@theallknowingsause8940]

You gotta respect that truck driver, he could've been like "uh.. i bought that ticket so i should have the money" but instead he was just pissed off that she didn't share and he didn't get a new truck, he literally didn't want more than that, haha.

[@tiagobelo4965]

Feel for him, my man just wants to do some good ole truckin'

[@cowmath77]

I'd have gone and gotten the receipt, claimed she stole the ticket and then cashed in. B!tch had it coming to her with how many people she betrayed.

[@corngreaterthanwheat]

That would be chill if she at least bought him the truck. Screw them other employees 😂

[@wiirlak8681]

If I remember the whole story, he did ask for all the money back first, then argued about just the truck.

[@aarontimm]

​@@tiagobelo4965FUMKIN GOBLESS

[@axelkaaro7364]

Reminds me of a guy in 1980 who won the Finnish lottery while working in Sweden. He won 1 million markka and ended up owing almost 2 million markka in combined taxes to the Finnish and Swedish governments. To my understanding he had to pay over the original amount to sweden since sweden had a lottery monopoly and thus the foreign winnings were considered illegal. The agreements against dubble taxation between the countries did not apply to lottery tax at the time. He ended up having his house and cars repossesed. The guy was called Veikko Ronkainen. Little information about him exists online besides one interview from 1985.

[@Reoko77]

THIS. The fact that you win money and your more broke that what you won, THAT is the unluckest win ever.

[@RadioactiveSherbet]

@@Reoko77 "The good news is, you won a million. The bad news is, you won't legally be able to collect those winnings. The even worse news is that your government is still going to tax you as if you'd collected the million."

[@anokata-kd8oc]

I would renounce my citizenship after getting one by investment in some tropical island and say: "Fuck you, it's cold here anyway"

[@tomifost]

Theres a few reddit threads about peoples lives becoming horrible after winning the lottery. You become a target.

[@StephThomson-nh2rq]

I saw a crime documentary about a guy who won the lottery and was murdered by his accountant, turns out she was stealing all his money behind his back.

[@Whitewingdevil]

Gotta side with the court on this one, the argument that the ticket was not, at the time of gifting, worth its stated value was actually pretty genius.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

That's what happens when you can afford good lawyers

[@emilyadams3228]

at the time it was given There, fixed it. Speak English, for fuxake.

[@bmeht]

Yes with your vast legal knowledge

[@lexacutable]

​@@emilyadams3228you're joking right? gifting is a real verb. don't be a childish nitpicker

[@peterlarkin762]

Gift as a verb was seldom used in UK or Ireland until recently. It sounds like a fake American word here. Like the way everyone now asks 'can I get a..' instead of ' can I have...'.

[@SpeedyShimeji]

The way you speak directly to Tonda as if you're one of the people she's slighted is killing me every time it happens

[@kino_61]

It was funnier for me because "tonda" means "round" (also meaning "chubby") in Italian... So the judge was calling her fat 😂

[@TheEsdaniel]

WHERE'S the truck , T O N D A ?!

[@kilor78]

i would argue that a lottery ticket where you are off by 1 on every number is the unluckiest ticket

[@nathancof]

What about a ticket with the winning numbers from the previous drawing? 🤔

[@elmstfreddie]

but that ticket is exactly the same as every other losing ticket. there's no such thing as "being close" to the winning numbers

[@Tom.......]

Off by one on the last number seems unlucky

[@TomKappeln]

I EXACTLY had that happend ! Even worst, the super number i had RIGHT !

[@orenges]

I expected it to be about that

[@Jupa]

The Schrödingers Lottery ticket was a pure moment of genius

[@gytrash6167]

Oliver was given that.

[@mitch_sorenstein]

😂😂😂 the build-up to the IRS reveal was spot on. Fun fact: even Batman's arch-nemesis, Joker, knows not to mess with the IRS.

[@ryanbauer3680]

You'd think they'd use that as a way to capture him or keep him in prison. But then you also remember, he's the goddamn Joker. I mean who else would be crazy enough to make a big deal out of poisoning simple pencil pushing bureaucrats for not letting him copyright fish? Edit: Damn Auto Correct.

[@stephennicol9549]

Called it at 7:35 😂

[@Rixoli]

​@@ryanbauer3680"copyright fish" Jesus fuck my sides Worst part is I could see joker trying some weird shit like that

[@28russ]

That's why he burnt a big pile of the green shit. The tax man was on his arse and he'd rather burn it then deal with those bastards. 😂😂

[@daki7070]

​@@Rixolihe did once. After some Poison got into the waters of Gotham, fishes suddenly got a joker face on them. He wanted to make them exclusive to himself because he claim he created/found it

[@ashtonh991]

"In her late 20s..." adds wrinkles lmfao

[@SoulDevoured]

Hey living in Alabama and working at waffle house while raising kids will do that.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

Single mother Waffle house Yeah age is going to hit like a truck quite fast with that

[@PerfectZeroMusic_]

I'm almost certain that when he said "who could go up against her?" almost everyone realized where this was going xD

[@mabvsfd]

Yep. At that part, I was literally thinking "Yep. Same folks who got Al Capone."😂

[@jonseon5952]

I had to fast forward the video because he dragged it out a little long for something everyone knew in their bones from the start

[@Keyecomposer]

I was thinking either the IRS or Cancer.

[@slyseal2091]

and they say Hollywood popularised recycling villains

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

I thought she was gonna get cancer or something

[@captainjames8799]

You can tell she’s a Waffle House employee she went against her former coworkers, the guy who tipped her, her former ex husband who kidnapped her and the irs and still came out standing

[@Utonian21]

how much of her winnings did she have to spend fighting all those court cases? Like Qxir said, the one with the IRS dragged on for 13 years

[@joeycampbell940]

Honestly it's genuinely pathetic and ignorant that they ever expected anything out of her winings. Fun fact: when you gift someone something you don't automatically deserve something in return.

[@gracesreadsalotayy182]

As a gas station employee I can tell you the amount of times I heard "I'll be back for you!" From customers. I don't expect them to, a lot of people say they should but that's because they didn't win it. I did have one customer give me 20 dollars from his 500 winning ticket. Sweet old man I know, was genuinely touched.

[@concept5631]

She built like a Waffle House

[@drakegrimm1287]

You got me chanting "IRS ... IRS ... IRS" for about half a minute

[@Derna1804]

The moral of the story is that when lawyers are competent and do their jobs honorably, nobody notices them, and that when accountants are scumbags and don't do their job properly, everyone continues to not notice them.

[@r5t6y7u8]

The *very first thing you do* is call a lawyer, even if it's only $20K or $30K. And they'll tell you to take the lump-sum. But people smart enough to know that, don't buy lottery tickets.

[@jeanaprewitt9658]

@@r5t6y7u8 If I were her age with a child and was looking at getting $370,000 every year fort the rest of my life, I'd take that. It takes a LOT of work and people you have to pay to manage a $10,000,000 sum. And the IRS takes about a third of it right off the top. Taking it as an annual income means you can have a lot of write-offs each year. If you're over 40, take the lump sum.

[@johnfitzgerald4456]

Good on ya Irish! Over a million! Man, I remember when you were a wee lad with a few thousand. 🎉

[@JTA1961]

Same here...& well put.

[@bmeht]

Oh look, another "I remember when I first subscribed! You were living in your car and had 3 subscribers! I told you that day, that you were going to be huge someday! And I was right!" story.

[@sirzirconium9231]

The story started in a Waffle House. It is obviously not going to end well.

[@manlystan100]

This guys narration is so epic. Its like a audiobook drama.

[@JTA1961]

Well said

[@finonevado8891]

it's the irish accent, I'd listen to that mf ramble about lottery for hours while getting progressively more drunk

[@manlystan100]

​@@finonevado8891I mean sure the accent is part of it but it's a combination of factors such as where he chooses word emphasis, and how the script is constructed. It's just a very well done overall production.

[@joelglanton6531]

​@@finonevado8891There are plenty of channels from Irish dudes that are cringe like thatchapter

[@stephanieparker1250]

Yea he doesn’t suck. His doodles are pretty cool, too 🎉

[@therevx5225]

Man, I'm going through a messy breakup and was tearing up the whole video, then when the IRS joke hit I burst out laughing, it cheered me up so much. So thanks for that Qxir

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

I knew it was going to be the IRS... more feared than the IRA. (Should have gone with a Roth! What did you think I meant?)

[@EngineeredFemale]

Are you doing good now? Take care!

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

I have a feeling at least 2 of those 3 coworkers would have done the same thing as her. $10mil is one of those awkward amounts that's not enough to live eternally wealthy but is enough to never have to work again or worry about bills. Dividing that up into 4 bits would mean she would still have to work

[@cooperswan534]

i can’t blame her for putting family first

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

@@cooperswan534 Yeah man, it's just coworkers. I definitely appreciate people who say they would be loyal to the end, but me... idk. I would never get into a lottery pool for this exact reason. But if I did I might give them each a small chunk or buy them a car. Giving up an entire different life for some randos at the Wafflehouse... That's a tough sell

[@Wyatt_James]

Keep inflation in mind. It would be equivalent to about $18.7 million today. If you invested properly then a quarter of that would still probably cover you for life, so long as you didn't end up going belly-up from bad investments and ignoring the slow payout. Edit: of course, this also ignores the family thing.

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

@@Wyatt_James After all taxes and giving her family money, a proper investment would probably need to rake in at least inflation rates in order to take someone from their late 20s to their deathbed. Assuming she lost 30% to her family and taxes, an investment that pays out about inflation rates would currently make her about $365k a year. Which is certainly an upper class wage, obviously. And then to match inflation every year she would need to put 3% of that back into her investment each year. All perfectly reasonable but does not make her able to maintain a millionaire's standard of living.

[@Wyatt_James]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 Sounds about right.

[@ruby12320]

I absolutely adore your "Tales from the Bottle" videos. They always leave me leaughing. Thanks so much!

[@gk4204]

Lmao. The INTENSE doodle stare was epic. Your amazing art style always makes me smile. Thank you.

[@sonja2730]

I gotta be real, she could have atleast given her colleagues and the truckdriver like 10/20.000 dollars. She keeps the majority of the winnings and does some good for the others involved. Seems like the right thing to do without directly splitting the winnings with all of them.

[@nashooo5903]

kind of a dangerous move, that means she at least acknowledges the oral contract. Also screw the trucker. He absolutely would not come back to give her an actual tip if he found out that the ticket was a loser one.

[@hermitoldguy6312]

@@nashooo5903 Acknowledged, honoured, and reduced her tax liability.

[@ikonic_artworks]

​@@nashooo5903nah, Tonda is the real asshole here.

[@sammiejopeters8848]

He gave her that ticket and all he asked for was a pickup truck. All he ever asked for from the beginning was a pickup truck. She couldn’t do that. She couldn’t even thank him. Ever. I know he is my dad

[@colatf2]

@@sammiejopeters8848wait that’s your dad? 😂 that’s gotta suck

[@beckc101ify]

Man, all I'm getting from this video is: if I ever play the lottery and win, I'd have to disappear into thin air!

[@john-ic5pz]

some states allow you to hire a lawyer/firm to anonymously accept the prize for you. I would absolutely do this if I win the lottery.

[@kittytrail]

take your time to understand and mitigate what new sets of problems you've put yourself in before even thinking about telling your spouse/kids. never tell anything to your family and friends before you've stealthily settled into your new life away and never ever discuss it with co-workers and/or neighbours. of course if you have an abnormal family, one that doesn't do drugs, drink and drive themselves to death, fcucks around until you find out, gambles, thinks of divorcing and/or suing your arse or are total thots and/or inbreds, you can probably do it differently for family and friends... 😽👍

[@MomentsInTrading]

There were a couple of talk shows years ago with a bunch of lottery winners who said it made their life worse. Some common things were- Being disowned by family because they didn’t give enough to the family. Every person they ever met contacting them and asking for money. Random strangers contacting them and asking for money. A bunch said things like they lost all their friends, family, and everyone they knew, and were forced to move to get away from it all.

[@kittytrail]

that's why you keep quiet about it, move away "for work" and don't even use a local bank to deposit the check. don't even tell your spouse and kids until you're really comfy with handling and managing that kind of money on a daily basis then move away. family, relatives, friends, co-workers/boss or neighbours as those are almost always turning into greedy raging leeches once they know... 😏👌

[@navienslavement]

​@@kittytrailloser mentality

[@kittytrail]

@@navienslavement instead of showing your utter lack of understanding of reality and basic human psychology, you better learn from others' experiences, be those mistakes, failures and/or successes. 🙄

[@lilyschrodingy3600]

​@@navienslavement Said the leech.

[@irwinisidro]

@@kittytrail The thing is in most states, you have to do a press conference and your name gets plastered everywhere. It's a stupid rule that needs to get banned for the safety of the winners. Even total strangers managed to find lottery winners homes and numbers after changing their numbers, names, and addresses.

[@Nylak-Otter]

As a K9 handler/trainer for SAR specializing in human remains detection and recovery, every day is a bad day when I get called in. But I can confidently say that my worst day ever was the day that the local Waffle House was not only closed, but it had been tossed in pieces two streets down from where it was supposed to be.

[@maxwellschneiter]

Its amazing how a sudden windfall of money can turn people into greedy misers. She definitely got some.bad karma for refusing to share with her coworkers and the guy who gave her the ticket in the first place.

[@tormodhag6824]

No if she split it she would not have enough to retire, its understandable

[@WildWombats]

@@tormodhag6824 I get not splitting with the coworkers unless they were like family before, but if you didn't really have a solid relationship especially outside work then I mean end of day, I mean why would you split that much money up with basically an acquaintance just because they happened to work with you? I'd rather that money be split among my own family or closest personal friends. But I don't get why she wouldn't share anything with the truck driver who tipped her the ticket to begin with. Personally, I think either gifting him a truck or the sum of money to buy a truck would be more than fair. Of course she didn't HAVE to, but it just feels like that would have been the right thing to do. I probably would not go out of my way to seek him, but If the truck driver contacted me in her shoes, if he asked for all the money I'd tell him not happening but I would offer him the truck at least that he wanted. If he refuses well that's on him.

[@JTA1961]

Bad...truck~ma

[@nolowlo2i]

@@tormodhag6824 3mil in the 90s was absolutely enough to retire on, you could make the most basic safe investments and easily be set for life. Even today, if you know what you're doing you can retire off 5-10mil and live very comfortably for many, many years. Her salary at the time was probably less than 30k a year (waffle house waitress) so that equates to 100 years of salary, more than she'd see if she worked the rest of her life in that job.

[@raymondpjoyce]

​@@tormodhag6824 It's such a open ended scenario like Maybe if she did things different there'd have been a different outcome I'd definitely try and be generous and definitely conceit to legit prior verbal agreements You so certain they did well when the story is mostly negative

[@NotDaveMirra]

My mans is spitting numbers like hes Scott Steiner

[@Qxir]

The numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you 💪

[@john-ic5pz]

truth. it turns out that hips Do lie tho. 😆

[@denosaur4444]

As a wise man once said, "I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS, no thank you."

[@youknowihaduwuittoem]

Tonda can beat the Jonkler is canon.

[@chansedavis2671]

I work at this exact waffle house! They still talk about her to this day

[@JTA1961]

Seeing how she likes to waffle...they/you should name one after her.

[@milliondollarmistake]

is there a dart board with her face on the wall?

[@sammiejopeters8848]

Don’t be agreeing with anyone to spit lottery winnings lol

[@bpmgaming3351]

Even with splitting the ticket and getting a total of $3M, you'd be set for life. Like just get yourself a stock broker and invest that extra money. All of them coulda been set for life. Instead she ends up having to gift away money and pay for legal battles. I wonder if she ever lies awake at night and thinks about how dirty she did her coworkers, and the man that literally made that possible in the first place.

[@JeffKopis]

Psycopaths have no conscience, they sleep like babies.

[@Badficwriter]

No. He was an asshole from the beginning. My ex husband is also a trucker. He makes plenty money. He lives in a giant house. He even brags about his income (which you really shouldn't do to your exwife). This guy was jerking around poorer people instead of giving them the money they needed THAT DAY to pay for basic necessities.

[@Morbpious]

What dirty lol, those verbal agreements only apply to winnings not worth 10mil. Did you seriously expect to get a fair share of that?

[@lycerisrico8943]

I agree that she should giving the man a truck, for gifting the ticket to her. But splitting the money to her coworker EQUALLY just because of verbal agreement? If I was her, I could spare $500 for them each just because they're my coworkers, but giving $3M each? Lmao, that's an instant "fūck you" from me for their audacity

[@karakreativevlog]

There was a woman who used to but lottery tickets at the grocery store where I worked who used to say that if she won, she would invite everyone over for a nice sit down dinner with real plates and silverware. Honestly, I would've been happy with that. Sadly, I don't think she ever won.

[@FusionDeveloper]

That's pretty gross. Why would someone put lottery tickets in their but?

[@concept5631]

Shame

[@concept5631]

​@@FusionDeveloper wat

[@limbeboy7]

She could've just settled before the trial. Would've saved her alot of attorney fees and probably gave them only 100k each...

[@Badficwriter]

I think if she'd given them any money at all it would've been considered admission and they could have taken her for the rest. If she ever wanted to gift them, she'd have to do it anonymously.

[@daisyjoy242]

Never fight a Waffle House employee, you will lose some-who

[@samyemma78]

7:36 Of all the things I’ve learned from watching Qxir videos two lessons always stick with me, ready to keep me from making the sort of decisions that might land ME in a Qxir video. 1. Never Gamble, and 2. Don’t Fuck With The Tax Man

[@purplehaze2358]

"but life offers a wide range of woes for a person to experience" You'd think that someone who works at a Waffle House would know that, but apparently not.

[@thepumpkin3203]

I hope you dont plan on using AI thumbnails for all of the videos in the future

[@targz__]

He made an entire video with AI last time. Now he's made his opinion clear, time for us to dislike and unsub I guess

[@thepumpkin3203]

@@targz__ Damn, that sucks. saw him following some ai accounts on twitter too. very lame

[@EricHeidenAuthor]

This one was considerably more uplifting than I thought it would be. Granted, I think she should have honored the agreement with her co-workers, but I'm glad she survived the incident with her ex and got that 'partial victory' over the IRS.

[@merlinmelon]

Was the preview AI generated? Kinda looks like it

[@t.b.5115]

My neighbor won the lottery, she was 72 years old, got her picture in the paper and an interview. She later told me a friend she had when she was 5 and had not seen in 67 years called and asked for money.

[@Loren_Arg_6816]

I really missed you pal, but i'm glad you are back with more. Also, that Dickerson was the literal definition of "don't tread on me".

[@blobofdespair]

God, this really is the best channel. The humor is always on point and attention to detail (i.e. buttcheeks on the IRS) *chef's kiss*. What's really great about this episode however, is how easy to understand it was. I can't imagine it was easy to learn of all the legal proceedings, but to make it so easy to absorb while being entertaining is an amazing feat. Well done, Mr. Qxir!

[@ericcarabetta1161]

The only time the IRS ever comes after rich people, is when they are recently poor and suddenly come into money. Since they are new to money, they don’t know how to hide it yet, and they haven’t had time to hire the right accountants and money managers to properly move their money around to avoid all the taxes, just like all the old money does.

[@meh.7640]

there are a LOT of stories of unlucky lottery winners. it seems like in most cases it's more like a curse than anything else. if i ever won a huge sum like that, the first thing i would do is keep quiet and don't let anyone know. just be rich in a very inconspicuous manner. probably conjure up a story about how i had a ingenious idea and it worked out pretty well, financially, so no one would suspect i had any more disposable income than necessary for my current lifestyle. put the money in a safe place, maybe tell the tax man you lost it or something xD. only cash transactions, obviously.

[@sethleger6105]

The IRS entrance into the video is the funniest thing I’ve seen today lol

[@pig1491]

Is this thumbnail AI? Looks like it’s AI generated

[@neskey]

The IRS keeps coming back to this channel like a Batman villain. I absolutely love it

[@thedownwardmachine]

Glad to see you back to the hand drawn frames, or at least you came up with some solid proompts to get them in your style

[@targz__]

The thumbnail is AI

[@SaladofStones]

What is this about him using AI?

[@milliondollarmistake]

@@SaladofStones The one with the dead mob kid was a.i

[@gillbates362]

I’m not a fan of the ai generated thumbnail

[@mrbro-mu1uw]

same

[@banhatlessducks]

Hahahaha I love the official bursting in with a lotto ball launcher gun 😂

[@CatholicDragoon]

Tbf, I'm pretty sure that if Tonda had shared the money with her coworkers the IRS would have gone after her right then and there.

[@zekethefreak4]

7:43 the IRS yup, I guessed it a few seconds before I got to even seeing it, then bastards will screw anyone over

[@NineteenEighty8]

Most underrated documentary style channel on YT. He deserved 10+ million it more subscribers. We are letting Qxir down!

[@socksfersold]

Fr, the short docu’s just made me intrigued to watch full docus on other channels. So he’s like, opening up a topic for a longer watch/research

[@RandomDeforge]

0:26 so you're telling me theres a chance.

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

"But life offers a wide range of woes for a person to experience!" Is sentence that can only be said with optimism if delivered with a brogue, which was sufficiently done.

[@shawnlilly5934]

6:08 “this is not going in a positive direction” I like to imagine you’re reading a book and you said this out loud once it got to this part of the story but like in a coffee house full of people who all just heard you

[@Gojiro7]

this is largely the fault of other people's greed, everyone was clambering for any reason to demand someone else's money regardless how shakey the standing was, i'm actually shocked she came out largely on top for all of it

[@WobblesandBean]

Yeah, this just makes me angry. Just another reason to add the to pile of why I'm a misanthrope.

[@dogmendogmen]

It wasn't shaky reasoning at all. "You said you would do this if you won the lottery, but when you won the lottery you decided not to" is fairly sound reasoning. They demanded that she not reneg on her agreements, which is a completely reasonable demand (which is why it was initially ruled in the favor of the plaintiff)

[@sammiejopeters8848]

She could have at least given the man his truck. That’s all he wanted if she won. He considered them friends. 🤦🏼‍♀️ she never even thanked him for giving her a $10 million lottery ticket

[@rvh1999]

THIS! 100%

[@Gojiro7]

@@sammiejopeters8848 there, that right there, that's exactly what im talking about. This all hinged off a small gesture of kindness (it was after all a tip given to her) that when he realized what he missed out on, scrambled for any excuse to get some of that money. We all make those "haha if I win i'll ___" half promises because we know we won't ever win, yeah the onus was on her to keep her word, but at the end of the day people saw she had so much money and rationalized "she's got plenty of leftover, she won't mind giving me a few grand" That's like If I walked up to your house and BS'd a reason why I should own your garage and it's fine because you still have the rest of the house, its pure greed when someone has to use flimsy wordplay to assert they are owed something from someone else. This is why I think Donating the money to charity right out is the only way to avoid people demanding things from you

[@rinislaboratories1315]

I love the hand drawn videos better than AI

[@hermit6123]

ai thumbnail?

[@JaCrispy3060]

She won the lottery but it took her over a decade for only couple million. Not chump change but also not necessarily worth over a decade of legal disputes either.

[@ishmaboy]

But wouldn't all of this make her...the luckiest lottery winner? She literally overcame each challenge systematically to keep a majority of the winnings. Even partially defeating the IRS. Why is the title "unluckiest"? She seems pretty dang lucky to me.

[@daki7070]

I would say the most dishonest winner. She voids two promises she personally made, tried to evade taxes and were a sore loser when first told to pay up to the IRS

[@2litforya649]

@@daki7070tax evasion is admirable

[@Badficwriter]

She was forced to engage in gambling pools. Other waitresses have talked about how much they hate the lotto tips ("Thanks for NOTHING"). Money tips are better than stupid lotto tickets that waste your time. She was exposed to threats by the publicity (it wouldn't just be the employees and her ex, its EVERYONE). Her ex was an actual criminal. She had to fight for 13 years to not be ripped off for trying to share money with her actual family and friends. The IRS goes after who they think they can beat. They routinely give up when faced with actual wealth that can sue the IRS and make it more trouble than its worth. Poor people are just easier to bleed.

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

We taught our kids not to gamble, because it's a tax for people who can't do math. Only the stupid, or the desperate, gamble.

[@mwbgaming28]

This is why if i ever win the lottery 1: ill leave the country 2: i wont tell anyone how much i won 3: if anyone presses me for a number, ill tell them a much lower figure than i actually won

[@NovaDelta]

ai generated thumbnail

[@adrianneill5014]

It looks good... More "ai generated thumbnails"..

[@Olm-]

the sharing of the winnings thing is not entirely accurate. the other waitresses essentially said they all had an agreement to share tips and the lottery winnings should fall under that. they didn’t have any sort of agreement in place to specifically share lottery winnings if one of them won.

[@SovietRusso]

Where i come from we are used to histories about gigantic problems like this due to someone winning the lotto, so the common knowledge we have is: dont tell anyone. no one. Just grab the money and vanish.

[@trj1442]

By far the best cartoonist on KZbin. Stoked that you reached a mill subs. Excellent content.

[@Luzgar]

When you get millions, why do you feel the need to keep it all ? You're still getting millions, even if you have to share it.

[@WildWombats]

I would have AT LEAST Given the man who gave me the lottery ticket his truck. That rubbed me the wrong way she just spat in his face basically and he's the reason she had all those winnings at all. That was the least she could have done. I would have definitely done that, that man more than earned it having made my life literally

[@shiranuithewolf8559]

To be fair, a lottery ticket is usually a shitty tip, 99.99…% of the time it’s worthless. You wouldn’t give someone a cash tip then go back and ask them to return some of it. Anything given as a tip is final and if you give away a winning lottery ticket you can get fucked

[@WildWombats]

@@shiranuithewolf8559 I mean absolutely, but I'm just saying realistically, I'd feel grateful for him and I feel it's more of the "asshole" option to just be like "Nah not giving you a truck" I mean yeah she definitely did not have to, but it's also not the "good karma" option if you get what I mean. I just wouldn't feel right stifling the guy like that. I suppose I'm probably a bit more kind than many are, but I just wouldn't have done that personally. But in normal tipping situations the tip is usually not in the range of millions of dollars either, I know he's not really a friend per se but if a friend had given you this ticket and you did the same thing, I'm sure that would not be appreciated by the friend. So clearly it is wrong to do to a friend, and I wouldn't wrong a stranger either if I could help it.

[@Badficwriter]

@@WildWombats A friend is not a stranger who didn't want to tip you. This guy did not want to give people money. He wanted to gamble. Truck drivers make decent money, unlike waitresses. He could fucking afford it instead of his stupid little games. If he had given the ticket IN ADDITION to a regular good tip? That might earn you some points. Not "I give you trash but expect gold in return".

[@skarrum1187]

If I ever somehow win the lottery you can bet I'm doing it anonymously

[@dondizzzzzle]

"The Babylonian Lottery" by Jorge Luis Borges is a really interesting story about an entire society that devolves into completely into randomness, with hundreds of both lucky and unlucky outcomes. It and *all* of **Ficciones** is really good.