Lottery Winner Gives Money Away [video]

So, Peter (47, from Oz) was driving along for over an hour before he realized he’d left something on his car. It was his late uncle’s favourite pocket knife. So he was massively relieved to find it was still there!

That stroke of luck prompted him to buy some lottery tickets.

A few days later he checked them with the lotto app on this phone. But it gave him a message he’d never seen before so he decided the app must be broken.

[The message said something about being a big winner, LOL :-)]

Watch the interview with Peter here and find out why this winner gave his money away:-

Have you ever left anything on top of your car and driven off?

I know I have. 🙂

I’ve also parked in a main public car park, left my keys in the car and walked away. And only realized hours later when I couldn’t find my car keys. They were still there, safely in the car. 😉

So Peter deleted the app and installed it again. If in doubt, turn it off and on again, right?

But that winners message wasn’t going away.

And down at the bottom in tiny writing was a number:-

“It was quite a large number – it looked like a phone number…”

And 17 days later Peter’s bank balance also looked like a phone number. $896,511.13 🙂

But you’ll never guess what happened next…

Peter just gave it away.

“I don’t feel comfortable keeping all this money to myself. And so I didn’t.”

Instead he gave all his family enough to get by a bit easier. Then he contacted friends he knew were finding things a bit tough. Then just moved on to total strangers.

“I felt more comfortable knowing that I’d given it all away and done a few things for myself.”

“We’ve got to look after each other, where and when we can. Do what you can to make somebody elses day a bit brighter.”

He’s a wise man is Peter.

Could you give away your lottery winnings? Even half of them..? And what would you do with the rest?