maybe it's better if you don't win the lottery (??!)

[bilog]

$365M on a lottery jackpot can cause serious problem!

i am used to having problems and i do not mind sorting that kind of problem! show me the money baby...

[empy]

well, come to think of it, i am playing PGR3 right now and it would really be cool to actually buy every car featured in this game

[Flagg]

Why not finance Glenn Castillo's water burning engine?

[niky]

:lol:

That's why we want to do an Ayala. Once the corporation outgrows the capability of the family to run it, or the family outgrows the ability of the corporation to sustain it, the family is turned into stockholders, and all control of the company goes to outside professionals. That's how Ayala's fortune has managed to stay intact. But that's quite a ways into the future for us.

[BlueBimmer]

Eight meat plant workers claim $365 million jackpot



Three are immigrants who sought better life in U.S.

LINCOLN, Nebraska (AP) -- Eight workers at a Nebraska meat processing plant claimed the record $365 million Powerball jackpot Wednesday, each getting about $15.5 million after taxes.

The seven men and one woman, introduced by Gov. Dave Heineman, all work at a ConAgra ham processing plant near the U Stop convenience store where they bought the winning ticket for Saturday's lottery.

It was the biggest jackpot on record for any lottery in the United States.

"I didn't know what to think," said Robert Stewart, 30, who said he was a maintenance supervisor before the win. "I still don't know what to think." (Watch presentation of big checks -- 6:53)

The winning numbers 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.

At least three of the winners Wednesday are immigrants.

Quang Dao, 56, who like Dung Tran, 34, came to the U.S. from Vietnam about 16 years ago, said he was looking for freedom when he headed for America.

"After I hit the lottery, it also changed my family's life in Vietnam," he said.

Alain Maboussou, a 26-year-old who fled his war-torn homeland in Central Africa, said he planned to earn a degree in accounting now.

"It's too early for me to retire, but I did four days ago. I'm going to be working for myself now," Maboussou said. He said of his three-month-old daughter, Katherine, "she's going to be happy for the rest of her life."

"I don't think they have a reason to be jealous," Maboussou said of the rest of his colleagues, "because when it's a pool day, we ask people to put in five bucks. So if you wasn't there, or you didn't put five bucks in, sorry."

The other winners were identified as David Gehle, 53; Chasity Rutjens, 29; Michael Terpstra, 47; and Eric Zornes, 40.

The previous U.S. lottery jackpot record was $363 million for the Big Game, the forerunner of Mega Millions. 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.


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