360 Million Dollars

[03LightningRocks]

Just think....you could buy a whole years production of Lightnings.....and still have money left over for mods on all of them.

I just saw a scroll across the TV that said they are still unsure about it being only one winner. How can they be unsure of that? Aren't all the tickets purchased recorded on a computer somewhere?


:confused:

[L8 APEX]

Something to do with a group purchase.

[03'svtlight]

Something to do with a group purchase.
The funniest part of that deal is the lucky M-F's will net "only" 124.5 million.:confused: Hmmm.......where's the other 200 MILLION!!!!!! Oh yeah, I forgot, our school system.:rolleyes:

[03LightningRocks]

The funniest part of that deal is the lucky M-F's will net "only" 124.5 million.:confused: Hmmm.......where's the other 200 MILLION!!!!!! Oh yeah, I forgot, our school system.:rolleyes:

That is quite a discount for the cash pay out.

[gbgary]

eight people from a meat packing plant won...22+ million each.

[dboat]

That is quite a discount for the cash pay out.

not really.. remember the time value of money.. you are getting cash now and not interest earned over time on the "corpus" of funds.. plus you have to take into effect the taxes on the payment.. question really is, did they just take 20%, as is required by law, or did they take the appropiate amount to really pay the taxes?

Dana

[David N]

177 mill is the cash value ... 8 people won ..8 way split = 22.1 each ,after taxes they got 15.5 mill .. they where on news today ..all worked the 2nd or 3rd shift at a meat packing plant......they all put in $5 each..not a bad return....

[03LightningRocks]

I would imagine their meat packing days are now behind them.

[True Blue Aggie]

Unless one of them is g....... :eek2:

[03LightningRocks]

Unless one of them is g....... :eek2:


In that case their best meat packing days would be coming up behind them....:eek: .

[03LightningRocks]

Think about this. Imagine what it would be like to have been given the chance to be part of that pool and turned it down. I bet there are people working at that plant that said no to the offer to get in the pool.

That is why anytime folks around our office do a Lotto pool, I feel I have to get in it. I can't stand the thought of walking into the office and being the only one there, while knowing everybody else is picking up their million dollar checks. I don't think I could deal with it.

[Tex Arcana]

I was hearing about this on the Ticket yesterday morning, at that time they hadn't found the winners yet. They were discussing what one would/should do if one won that much money: get a safe-deposit box, put the ticket in the box, and wait the full 60 days before turning it in for the money; in the meanwhile, pay off all bills (debt-consolidation if necessary), sell the house, and locate a place far and away from everyone; then turn in, get paid, pay taxes, and DISAPPEAR! :d

Yeah, that's what I'd do, for sure. ;)

[03LightningRocks]

SNIP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> and DISAPPEAR! :d

Yeah, that's what I'd do, for sure. ;)


Quick...someone buy Tex a Lotto ticket. We may all get lucky:cool: .

[dboat]

In that case their best meat packing days would be coming up behind them....:eek: .

or, they will only be doing fudgepacking and no meatpacking, or would that be meatpacking of a special kind...

not that there is anything wrong with that "Seinfeld"...

Dana

[David N]

full story and pictures:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185667,00.html

LINCOLN, Neb. — A group of eight workers from a meat processing plant in Nebraska stepped forward on Wednesday to claim their record $365 million Powerball (javascript:siteSearch('Powerball');) jackpot prize.
“Life just got a bit more interesting for eight Nebraskans,” Gov. Dave Heineman (javascript:siteSearch('Dave Heineman');) said before the winners' names were announced at a hotel in Lincoln, where the winning ticket for Saturday's drawing was sold.
The eight will take home $15.5 million lump sum payments after taxes, and most said they do not plan on returning to work at the ConAgra ham and corned beef processing plant.
“I’ve been retired for about four days now,” said Powerball winner Eric Zornes, 40, a former maintenance mechanic who worked at the plant for 10 years.
When asked to describe his reaction to winning, Zornes, a married father of two, said: “I probably couldn’t say the words here.”
Zornes said he’s been participating in the pool, to which everyone chips in $5, for five years.
To media members at the press conference who had been in town a few days awaiting the winners’ identities, Zornes said: “We probably ate breakfast with you a couple times but you guys didn’t know that.”

Chasity Rutjens, 29, packaging superintendent who worked at the plant for 9 1/2 years and is the sole female winner, said of being a millionaire: “We’re still thinking we’re gonna wake up from a dream.”
Rutjens was not alone in her disbelief.
“I thought they were playing a joke on me," Michael Terpstra, the third-shift plant sanitation manager, said of the phone call from his co-workers informing him they'd won. "It’s been different ever since.”
Robert Stewart, 30, agreed: “I didn’t know what to think — still don’t.”
Vietnamese refugee Dung Tran, 34, bought the winning ticket at the U Stop convenience store (javascript:siteSearch('U Stop convenience store');) in Lincoln and the workers each received a photocopy of it to take home.
The other winners are Vietnamese refugee Quang Dao, 56, David Gehle, 53, and Alain Maboussou, 26, a new father and refugee from Central Africa who used to work between 70 and 75 hours a week but now plans to go to school for business administration with a focus in accounting.
“I’m gonna be working for myself now,” said Maboussou, a former maintenance second-shift mechanic who became a father to his first child, Katherine, three months ago. "She's going to be happy for the rest of her life."
The winning numbers drawn Saturday were 15, 17, 43, 44 and 48, with a Powerball number of 29, according to the Multi-State Lottery Association of Des Moines, Iowa, which runs the game for the participating states.
The previous U.S. lottery jackpot record was $363 million for the Big Game, the forerunner of Mega Millions. That was won by two ticket holders in Illinois and Michigan in 2000. Powerball's previous record jackpot, $340 million, was won by an Oregon family in October.
Powerball is played in 28 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Saturday’s drawing was the biggest jackpot on record for any lottery in the United States, and the workers were having a difficult time grasping their new status as the winners of a game with 1 out of 146.1 million odds.
“You never dream something like this will happen," Gehle said. “It’s amazing.”
FOX News' Heather Scroope and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[03LightningRocks]

I want to be a Lotto winner....:crying:

[dboat]

I want to be a Lotto winner....:crying:

Rocks,
go buy a bunch of those Lottery scratch and sniff cards, you are likely to win.. :evil

Dana

[Tex Arcana]

Rocks,
go buy a bunch of those Lottery scratch and sniff cards, you are likely to win.. :evil

Dana

Or he'll be feelin' REAL GOOD about them... :d