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Posted on 08/07/2006 1:09:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
(CBS/AP) About 100 cheese-factory workers in the Wisconsin town of Saint Cloud have been celebrating — because they say they're $208 million richer.
Wisconsin state lottery officials say no one has officially stepped forward to claim Saturday's Powerball jackpot.
But a large contingent of employees from Sargento Cheese say they have the winning ticket locked in a safe.
Eric Heimermann is one member of the celebrating group. He told the Fond du Lac Reporter that the mostly second shift workers had chipped in $1 apiece to a pool to purchase lottery tickets.
Heimermann, 24, of St. Cloud, spoke with the newspaper in a telephone interview from Fat Boys Tavern in St. Cloud. The newspaper said many of the winners went to the tavern Sunday night to celebrate.
"I think everybody pretty much decided we're going to pay our bills and we're going to take it from there," he told the newspaper. "We're all going to work tomorrow. We still have a job to do."
It's not clear when the group will try to redeem the ticket. Lottery spokeswoman Jessica Iverson says it can take several days or weeks for a winner to come forward.
The winning numbers drawn Saturday night were two, three, nine, 48 and 50 and the Powerball was 23.
"After taxes, about $600,000."
Even with a very conservative, secure investment, this would return around $30,000.00 per year. Not exactly chump change for factory workers. Most of them will likely blow it on speedboats, cars, and plasma tv's though.
That would make a nice verse to a song ...
"Gouda? No. Edam? No. Smoked Austrian? No. Japanese Sage Darby? No."
I bet the manager of that shift is feeling bleu. Okay, that was no gouda. These must be grating on your nerves cause y'all seem feta up with the puns. I'm no munster, just having edam good time.
Spoken like a true elitist.
"Behold the power of cheese."
"SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZOUKI UP!"
"How many of them do you suppose showed up for work today?"
$2mm has a way of making a milk factory wage seem less than appealing.
But thanks for the nitpick MM. I know I can always count on you.
"That will buy a lot of Cheez Its."
And brats! :)
It stinks
They would have to be taked at something like 80 percent for them to only have that much.
They would have probably a little over a million each.
"Iverson said the $208.6 million could be paid in 30 installments. But she said the winner or winners could choose a lump sum payment, which she said would be $95.8 million. Both those figures are before taxes, Iverson said."
Can somebody explain this to me?
The lump sum of the 208.6 million jackpot...BEFORE taxes are taken out...is only 95.8 million?
Does the lottery take out a huge chunk for "fees" or something?
This makes no sense.
Hi, RW! No, it's right. See #28 or #32.
Well, since each of them is going to get less than $1Million, it's not all that much.
A clever person would invest what's left of that, after taxes, and let it ride until retirement. Then, life's going to be pretty darned good.
As for nitpicking...hey, it's what I'm good at.
You can get five houses with that money in WI.
lol . . . Good one.
"And brats! :)"
That fishing show host from your area and his wife are always pushing brats, so much so that I really want to try them. In the south we called them weenies, but I know they are not the same. They look good grilled.
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