Should We Feel Sorry For Him?

[Islay]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5663567/daniel-millar-lottery-winner-poverty-disabled-benefits/

He spent 80 grand and in less than 2 months and expects the taxpayer to go back to keeping him?
Am I being to hard on him?

[gness]

Probably me being dense, Sqad....but his....ignorance or deceit ....has left him without some of the benefits he was getting so how was it a good or sensible thing to do?..x

[Guilbert53]

>>>80 grand is nothing NOTHING

Some people have to go to WORK every day for 4 years to earn £80,000 so it is not nothing.

[Sqad]

gness......I didn't say that it was good or sensible....I just implied that I would have done the same.

[Islay]

I wonder if some of you would be so forgiving if it was an immigrant male of the same age?

[Sqad]

Gilbert....I know, I know but 80 grand is not a life changer in my opinion and "nothing" is a relative term.

[Zacs-Master]

I can never quite get my head around the situation where someone says ‘yeah, but what if.......’ and then goes on to present a scenario which is unrelated to the OP. Bizarre.

[Islay]

can't all be perfect Zacs can we?

[Zacs-Master]

Of asking for anyone to be perfect. Just sensible.

[237SJ]

Yeah, but what if it was a Martian or some other alien - what then?

[Prudie]

As an aside to AH - well Barclays did it to me.

[ummmm]

Lloyds and nationwide did it with me.

[237SJ]

Lloyds didn't do it with me when a house inheritance went through my account on it's way to a savings account.

[Islay]

NatWest did it to us when we sold our house and got a settlement allowance

[ummmm]

It might depend how the money is banked. I paid in cheques in person. Either way banks offer financial services.

[sunny-dave]

Hmmm - not a lot of sympathy for the lucky winner here - however dim and/or unworldly wise with money he is, it surely must have occurred to him that his benefits might just be affected?

I also agree with whoever commented on the not very subtle difference between the "standing happily on a boat" and the "posing in a chair with crutches" photos ... methinks the DWP might need to ask the odd hard question ... ?

[Spicerack]

Nope. He looks like a wrong un. ( I can tell)

[andy-hughes]

sunny-dave - // Hmmm - not a lot of sympathy for the lucky winner here - however dim and/or unworldly wise with money he is, it surely must have occurred to him that his benefits might just be affected? //

I don't think so - if he thought about it, then he wouldn't be dim or unworldly wise with money - would he?

[Old_Geezer]

If he was genuinely naive enough not to realise that benefits are for the needy, then some sympathy is appropriate. If he knew exactly what he was doing and it didn't come off, then one is somewhat less sympathetic. The win hasn't ruined anything, the reaction to it did.

[david small]

He's a parasitic scrounger. Deceitful, manipulative and a liar to boot. Serves the greedy idiot right. Now he will have to lift up his floor boards and retrieve some of the money he's hidden.

[ladybirder]

Don't hold back David, say what you really mean;-)