Meat Workers Share $365 Million Jackpot

Associated Press ^ | Feb 22, 2006 | AP

[PETEPARSLEY]

TRUE???

Ask the 8 winners who is the big winner....the last thing they are thinking about is the GOVERNMENT....maybe they will just pack up their bags and move to Guam

[PETEPARSLEY]

Chastity is looking pretty HOT.....IS SHE SINGLE.....I am getting a ticket on Southwest right now

[PETEPARSLEY]

Gotta love it. The Scots, the French, the Vietnamese, the Chinese, the Germans, and the Dutch are all represented. Only in America!



and.....don't forget the MUSLIM with the sunglasses

[PETEPARSLEY]

Just look at the guy in West Virginia who won big on Christmas day a couple of years ago--something like $113 million after taxes........


TWO WORDS...........W E S T V I R G I N I A

[Skooz]

The seven men and one woman all work at a ConAgra ham processing plant

Not any more.

[Cinnamon]

she looks very hawt with that 22.5 million check

[PETEPARSLEY]

I wonder if she is a NATURAL blonde??? I would like to find out...MUNCH...MUNCH

[Cinnamon]

rich, blonde, and 29 yrs old!!! just what the dr ordered

[Iron Eagle]

the higher the amount of the future value -- the lower the amount of present value. (An oversimplification). Anyway -- the present value of 365 mill is 220 -- because 220 grows fast. Thus the delta is larger.

[PETEPARSLEY]

Do you have your MBA ??? Congrats

[ShadowAce]

Is that post legal?

[Michael.SF.]

What would you do?

To be honest, this is what I would like to do:

1) Accept the present value as given.

2) file a class action law suit against the lottery group based on their PV calculation and:

3) Based on the amount that is paid out vs. the amounts they allow for advertising and overhead (A & O).

4) Regarding the lawsuit:
a) Compare the numbers the state allows for itself for A&O, vs. those mandated for legal gambling operations (horse racing for example).
b) If one compares the numbers, I think we would see that the rules set for themselves is far more lenient in their favor (this would be the basis of the lawsuit)
c) Law suit would be class action on behalf of all winners.
d) If the lawsuit is either won or settled, proceeds from the settlement would be donated to charity.
e) Ultimate goal of the lawsuit would be to require that the state operate it's gambling operations in the same manner that they dictate to private gambling operations.

[B4Ranch]

take the lump sum!

[Cronos]

Praise be to Porky Pig!

you might not be too off there. Why do you think there's an injunct against eating pig meat? In the name of Porky!!! dddd... that's all folks

[Cronos]

Pretty diverse group. About the only demographic not represented were blacks. Quick somebody point this out to shakedown Jackson.

well, actually : Alain Maboussou, 26, fled from the Congo in 1999 to escape the civil war there.

Alain's definitely a black. Good for him, let him enjoy the american dream (and may his children do so too and be an asset to the USA)

[Cronos]

duh, what a dope I am -- read ahead, read ahead. i really thought with a name like that and from the Congo he'd be black...