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Hehe, envy can be a powerful motivation...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,489959,00.html
A Dutch woman claimed that she had suffered emotional damages because she hadn't win the lottery, but her neighbors had. Helene de Gier explained that she was traumatized after seven of her neighbors won €13.9 million ($18.6 million) each in the National Postcode Lottery.

In this particular Dutch lottery, postal codes are selected at random and people living in that area can enter for prizes ranging from a few euros to millions. Proceeds generated by the lottery go to charity.

When de Gier's lucky neighbors in the small town of Heusden hit the jackpot, she hadn't even entered. She then filed a suit, arguing that the lottery was an invasion of privacy because of the media attention surrounding the town's selection.

She also claimed that her newly rich neighbors had rubbed her nose in her bad luck, with one cruelly parking a brand new Porsche in front of his house.

She says that she became obsessed with the lottery, and was confronted with her loss every time she had to write her address. According to de Gier, the lottery advertisements were in effect "emotional blackmail," by threatening to cause disappointment if someone's neighbors won and they didn't.

In a TV interview she tearfully recounted how she came to dread the next lottery draw, which "felt like a noose around my neck being tightened." And she said this lottery was not any ordinary game of chance. "In other lotteries you would never know for sure that if you had only participated you would have won," she insisted.

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Maybe she should move. Maybe into some poor public housing estate.

From what I hear winning can cause more emotional damage

Crazy Dutch. She needs to relax, maybe get high or something. :p

Didn't enter and now she's mad she didn't win?


Wah.

The real tragedy is that this woman has had even 5 seconds of airtime.

did not so i will sue them, never mind i did not enter :rolleyes:

If she wins I'm suing them too.

The real tragedy is that this woman has had even 5 seconds of airtime.

Ugh. I think I agree with that. Too trivial to waste time on.

If she wins I'm suing them too.

If you win i'm suing as well :p

If she wins I'm suing them too.
She already lost. The court basically told her that life's not fair and through out the case.

Crazy Dutch. She needs to relax, maybe get high or something. :p


She should be stoned :p

There are a lot of crazy people in the Low Countries. (isn't trying to be a horse's ass)

Hey, maybe I should sue. They didn't consider me because I don't live in the Netherlands. That's discrimination.

:p

She already lost. The court basically told her that life's not fair and through out the case.

Saves me a job then. *puts down Dutch phone directory*

Hey, maybe I should sue. They didn't consider me because I don't live in the Netherlands. That's discrimination.

:p

If you win I'm suing the lottery AND you lot who have been suing on behalf of my dog.

My dog should have won as well and it doesn't matter that she doesn't understand the concept of a lottery, money, the act of suing or even language. If that does matter then I'll have to sue on grounds of speciest discrimination.

remind me to sue next time I don't win something I don't enter....dammit I should sue for not winning: the World Series, the Stanley Cup, the NBA and NFL Championships, the World Cup and an Olympic Gold Medal for pole vaulting....

I'm going to sue that woman for being so damn stupid.

This is why we need human hunting laws. There are just so many stupid people in the world. Natural selection ain't what it used to be.

Hmmm. Back in high school on separate occasions all of my friends, and this is true I swear, got fortunes in their fortune cookies, that promised them a ride by the Galactic Wizard in his spaceship. Again, I am not making this up, out of six of us, five got promised rides at different times (not the same visit) from the Galactic Wizard. I did not.

Now.

Who do I sue, the fortune cookie people or the Galactic Wizard for my trauma? (well, no one, her case got thrown out and I wouldn't make it past the filing clerk...but it did seem to relate so I thought I'd ask...)

And if I got a brand new Porsche from my lottery winnings I wouldn't taunt someone with it...I might spend the night in it or take Highway 1 to get groceries...but no taunting. Get yourself some poser luxury sedan for that nonsense.

Thats it! I am sueing everbody for everything. I figure I'm bound to win at least one.

Thats it! I am sueing everbody for everything. I figure I'm bound to win at least one.

I'm counter-suing you for causing me emotional trauma.


Getting sued it very traumatic. Well, the resultant legal fees certainly are.

All this suing and counter-suing scares me. I'm emotionally damaged so I'm suing all of you. My lawyer will be in contact shortly.

I'm suing God for that whole "creation of the universe" bit. I don't recall giving Him the rights to interfere with my matter.

What the crap!?

My neighbor parked in my yard and I don't get international attention. :mad:

I'm suing God for that whole "creation of the universe" bit. I don't recall giving Him the rights to interfere with my matter.
Ooooh, this is a good one.
What the crap!?

My neighbor parked in my yard and I don't get international attention. :mad:

Because you aren't suing. Suing is clearly the best thing ever.

i don't remember giving permission to god to give me life... maybe i should do something about it?

i don't remember giving permission to god to give me life... maybe i should do something about it?

Sue. You need to sue.

Sue. You need to sue.
sounds like a plan, now where do i find a sue? :p

Hi, my name is Wilgrove, Attorney-At-Law, no Lawsuit is too frivolous or stupid for me to take on!

*hands out cards*

Hi, my name is Wilgrove, Attorney-At-Law, no Lawsuit is too frivolous or stupid for me to take on!

*hands out cards*
in that case, i'd like to sue myself for ruining my life

Shouldn't you be chasing an ambulence then?

Yea, but in this modern "Sue happy" environment, the people are coming to me now!

Hi, my name is Wilgrove, Attorney-At-Law, no Lawsuit is too frivolous or stupid for me to take on!

*hands out cards*

Shouldn't you be chasing an ambulence then?

I'd also like to file divorce proceedings against my left hand ;) .

Envy, a powerful emotion.

I'd also like to file divorce proceedings against my left hands ;) .
and i'd like to marry all of them...

Looks like someone's been watching too much Weird Al.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zIllRdSzSug&mode=related&search=

in that case, i'd like to sue myself for ruining my life

I, too, would like to sue you for ruining your life.

Hehe, envy can be a powerful motivation...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,489959,00.html


Maybe she should move. Maybe into some poor public housing estate.


Maybe her neighbors will contribute money towards her psychiatric care.

If her neighbors were, indeed, "rubbing her nose in it," did it possibly, maybe occur to her that her attitude had something to do with it? My mother always said "if you have a problem with one person, the problem could be you, it could be the other person. If you have problem with everyone, the problem is you."

You know, next time I don't win the lottery, maybe I'll sue the state. I mean just because I don't enter the things is no reason to discriminate against me.