The girlfriend of a lottery winner wiping her tears and blowing her nose with a 500 euro bill. /Instagram
A German couple who won a 14.3 billion won lottery drawing was criticized for posting a video of themselves wiping their tears with banknotes and blowing their noses on social media.
According to the Daily Mail on the 30th (local time), Candice Oldgas (36), a current German police officer and the girlfriend of a lottery winner, posted a video on Instagram on the 14th of wiping her tears and blowing her nose with a 500-euro bill.
The reason Old Gas posted this video was to ridicule the criticism of some netizens who say they spend too much money after winning the lottery. About two months ago, Kursat Chiko Ildarim (42), a former factory worker and Oldgas’ boyfriend, won a lottery worth a total of 10 million euros (about 14.3 billion won). Since then, Ildarim has been showing off his appearance through social media such as Instagram by purchasing a luxury foreign car worth over 280,000 euros (about 400 million won). When some people criticized him, his girlfriend, Old Garth, posted a video rebutting him.
“The world is so mean to me,” Oldgas said in the video. “Everyone irritates me,” he complained. Next to her, her boyfriend, Ildarim, kept handing her bills, and Old Gas took them and used them like tissues, wiping away her tears and snot.
After the video was uploaded, criticism continued online. It is said that money was looked down upon simply for the sake of ‘likes’ and ridicule. Netizens responded by saying things like, “Is money really that funny when you win the lottery?” and “Are you crazy for blowing your nose and wiping your tears on banknotes that other people will also touch?” However, apart from the criticism that they used the money ‘like toilet paper’, there were many comments defending the couple, saying that it is the individual’s freedom to spend the lottery winnings.
Oldgas responded to some of the criticism by saying, “Don’t take the jokes too seriously.”
Meanwhile, Ildarim is a man from Turkiye living in Germany who worked as a tower crane driver at a factory before winning the lottery. He indulged in gambling and drugs and committed theft, and was put on trial on charges of robbery and fraud in February 2021. At trial, he was sentenced to 27 months in prison and while serving his sentence, he was released on parole as a model prisoner, and later enjoyed a fortune when he won the lottery ticket he purchased. Ildarim and his girlfriend Oldgas attracted the attention of many people as this story was introduced several times in local media, including as ‘Germany’s luckiest Turkic people’.
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2023-10-31 01:08:00
