Take your million and shove it!
July 3, 2001 8:46 AM   Subscribe

Take your million and shove it! I saw a VP from HR Block on GMA this morning PLEADING the guy to respond so they could give him a million bucks.
posted by victors (13 comments total)
 
I'M THE WINNER! SEND ME THE MONEY! No, really, I swear.
posted by davidmsc at 8:52 AM on July 3, 2001


can you blame him? i mean, with all the BS giveaways nowadays, i wouldn't cash it in for fear i was selling my soul--or worse, my e-mail address--to junk-mail international.
posted by dogmatic at 8:56 AM on July 3, 2001


I hope he doesn't come forward. Then I have another shot at it.


posted by a3matrix at 8:57 AM on July 3, 2001


Headline in one week:

Disbelieving Loser Will Claim Own Life
posted by Skot at 8:58 AM on July 3, 2001


Junk mail, feh...believe me, I could put up with ALOT of junk mail for a million bucks.
posted by davidmsc at 8:59 AM on July 3, 2001


Maybe the million dollar prize is an annuity paid out at $100 a year for the next 10,000 years.
posted by MegoSteve at 9:51 AM on July 3, 2001


It's so nice of Good Morning America to give them free advertising like this. It's such a pressing universal problem of human suffering, you know, lottery winners not collecting their winnings.
posted by Joe Hutch at 12:15 PM on July 3, 2001


This reminds me of a scene in the tv show "Night Court" where Bull Shannon is handed a check and told he's just won a million dollar sweepstakes. He immediately tears up the check, and his disbelieving coworkers, stunned, ask him why. He replies, "Are you kidding? I could never afford the taxes!"

I mean, it's one thing to say you don't believe the first letter is anything more than a publisher's clearinghouse scam, but after repeated letters, phone calls, and now a TV appearance? How fawkin' STOOPID is this guy? Clearly, he doesn't deserve a dime.
posted by hincandenza at 12:15 PM on July 3, 2001



What's going to happen here is the guy will finally realize it was real after he sees the alternate winner getting the check on TV. Then he'll turn around and sue H&R Block for quite a bit more than the amount of the original prize.

It's so nice of Good Morning America to give them free advertising like this. It's such a pressing universal problem of human suffering, you know, lottery winners not collecting their winnings.

Yes, it's so obvious that everyone watches GMA in order to be bombarded with videos of starving African children and Bosnian war crimes the moment they wake up. People love to start their day that way.
posted by aaron at 12:32 PM on July 3, 2001



My question is: was his name entered in the sweepstakes because he chose to, or was it entered because he used the services of H&R Block?

If just using their (H&R Block's) services entered him in the sweepstakes, then maybe that's why he's hesitant to believe it, or claim it (maybe he DOESN'T want to win a million $$ -- in which case he has my great admiration and respect!!)

But if he KNOWINGLY put his name in the sweeps, then I don't understand why he won't believe it, or claim his prize.
posted by Rastafari at 1:23 PM on July 3, 2001


The winner was picked during a random drawing from 17 million hopefuls.

(+ 1 paranoid)
posted by brantstrand at 1:51 PM on July 3, 2001


perhaps this is just a scam to get one of the fibbie's "top ten wanteds" off the list.
posted by fuzzygeek at 1:52 PM on July 3, 2001


Aaron, I know I'm pointing out the obvious here, but: I was being sarcastic and over the top, matching the ridiculous tone of "weird news items" that often add up to little more than advertising (and, in the case of "viral marketing," are). As much as I learn from your often very informative posts, your occasional knee-jerk bullying tendencies get tiresome.
posted by Joe Hutch at 2:03 PM on July 3, 2001


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