Great story, one of those extreme moments that really brings humanity's best and worst features to the forefront, well worth the read. Side note to day that the mobile version of the GQ site is really really gorgeous.

It was a tiny town of farmers, a village where everyone knew everyone and nearly all struggled to make ends meet. But then, a few days before Christmas, they won the largest lottery in the history of Spain. The entire town. All of them. (Well, almost all of them.) Instantly, Sodeto became known as the luckiest place on earth. Michael Paterniti visits the town that fortune smiled upon and finds that the people there—now flush—are still uncertain of just how lucky they really are

Read it all here GQ : The Luckiest Village in the World