W.Va. lottery winner buys trucks for fire depts.

Comment #16

butterflykt — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:11:05 GMT

That was such a nice thing of him to do.

Comment #15

HaveABall — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:15:46 GMT

Not necessarily, since history has shown us that winning one or more lottery multi-million dollar net jackpots has no correlation to a person's character and/or philanthropy bent. Rather, we have read of several of these jackpot winners who within months gave huge amounts of monies to charities and people in need ... and within a decade disparagingly report that they don't have any of their lottery win remaining; since they refused to quit their full-time job, etc. and instead allowing and accep... [ More ]

Comment #14

petergrfn — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:08:42 GMT

Good for Mr. Smith....It was a good thing he did helping his community instead of being caught in seedy strip clubs drunk with $500 Grand stolen from his car! Hopefully this guy and his good deeds can party erase the negative press from a certain other Lottery winner from WV...The Good People of WV deserve better.

(Now Having said that.....)

I kind of lost my good feeling when the guy bought an Armored Personel Carrier for the Police. I know their are criminals out there who have no regua... [ More ]

Comment #13

JordanT1021 — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:19:41 GMT

this is a great story... with his incredible and generous donation, he will be the kind of person where lightning will strike twice

Comment #12

dpoly1 — Mon, 16 May 2011 13:56:27 GMT

Thank you for being someone that gets what made America GREAT!

Don't Tread On On Me

Comment #11

kapla — Mon, 16 May 2011 08:46:37 GMT

Before the time of BIG government, this was how we did things in America. Now most people with this kinda money hord it and are afraid to help. This is a clear example of WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING once we as citizens reach this level of achievement.

Comment #10

HaveABall — Mon, 16 May 2011 04:24:31 GMT

Mr. Smith, I think your creative gifts to the state of West Virginia's government agencies have been great for those employees PLUS the citizens that will benefit from them! It's inspiring, to me, how after collecting your exciting lottery jackpot win of approximately $25.74 million dollars net, that you've already given approximately $6 million dollars to them.

I hope that your remaining $19 million or so will grow in investments for you so that if you're still interested you can continue t... [ More ]

Comment #9

dallascowboyfan — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:58:48 GMT

I love these kind of stories.......WTG Mr. Smith

Comment #8

sully16 — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:51:09 GMT

Congrats Mr. Smith, you are an inspiration, Thank you

Comment #7

rdgrnr — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:06:28 GMT

You're a good man, Mr Smith.

There used to be a lot more people like you in this country than there are now.

And that's a shame.

Comment #6

wizeguy — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:53:24 GMT

Thank you Mr. Smith for sharing your good fortune with worthy causes.

Comment #5

hearsetrax — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:26:32 GMT

Comment #4

dpoly1 — Sun, 15 May 2011 17:00:54 GMT

This is how it is meant to be in America!

Much better than confiscatory Federal Taxes going to the lazy greed of envy class

Comment #3

CowboysFan — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:11:33 GMT

Well done Mr. Smith

Comment #2

joshuacloak — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:11:13 GMT

glad to see i think a happy story so far for him :D

guy was sheriff for berkeley, so it makes sense he Help out firefighters,cops if they needed it ,

as for the best part

They think of me as a walking ATM machine

once a again a winner proves everyone point on this forum, claim it in a freaking trust and be anonymous to everyone

am not a walking ATM machine and nor are any of you on this forum i think lol

i also Am Mad as hell at that random Rude, lady, talking down righ... [ More ]

Comment #1

Piaceri — Sun, 15 May 2011 15:04:38 GMT

Nice job! God bless this man, and keep the weirdos away.

Money doesn't make you happier, but it does make living a lot easier. -- Absolutely.

W.Va. lottery winner buys trucks for fire depts.

Lottery Post — Sun, 15 May 2011 12:44:13 GMT

A West Virginia Powerball lottery winner known for his generosity recently turned his charitable ways toward the purchase of new vehicles and equipment for area fire departments.

On Thursday, W. Randy Smith gave away a lot more of his money, this time, a little more than $1 million.

Six Berkeley County fire departments each got a Ford F-350, four-wheel-drive, four-door pickup truck equipped with snow plows and walk-behind snow blowers.

The idea of such specially equipped vehicles is to