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Claim: A lottery winner was run over by a truck just hours after his win.
Status: True.
Origins: Those
who dream of hitting it big on the lottery usually picture themselves as living the life of Riley in the wake of the big win. They imagine themselves basking in luxury and pleasure. They don't imagine themselves meeting the fate that befell one 2004 winner.
On 22 January 2004, a man who won $73,450 in an Indiana lottery game taped for television died scant hours later when 73-year-old Carl Atwood of Elwood, Indiana, was knocked down by a truck and expired shortly thereafter in an Indianapolis hospital.
Claim: A lottery winner was run over by a truck just hours after his win.
Status: True.
Origins: Those
who dream of hitting it big on the lottery usually picture themselves as living the life of Riley in the wake of the big win. They imagine themselves basking in luxury and pleasure. They don't imagine themselves meeting the fate that befell one 2004 winner.
On 22 January 2004, a man who won $73,450 in an Indiana lottery game taped for television died scant hours later when 73-year-old Carl Atwood of Elwood, Indiana, was knocked down by a truck and expired shortly thereafter in an Indianapolis hospital.
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