365 million dollars

[TurdBerglar]

OMAHA, Neb. - A Powerball ticket sold in Nebraska has the winning numbers for the largest jackpot in the nation’s history — $365 million — lottery officials said Sunday.

Only one winning ticket was sold for Saturday’s jackpot, according to the Powerball Web site. No one had come forward to claim the jackpot early Sunday, Nebraska Lottery spokesman Brian Rockey said.

“We don’t know if the winner knows yet,� he said.

A U-Stop convenience store in Lincoln sold the winning ticket, Rockey said.

“If I sold the ticket to ’em I hope they’d share in the winnings — at least, even one-tenth of a percent would suit me just fine,� Stacey Carey, a clerk at the store, told AP Radio in a telephone interview.

The store was swarmed with reporters and customers Sunday, said owner Mick Mandl. “Everybody wants to talk to us,� he said. “They’re excited.�

Lottery officials will go to the store Sunday to verify the sale, Rockey said.

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 Powerball jackpot topped the previous lottery record, which 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 of $340 million was won by an Oregon family in October.

People with dreams of winning the record jackpot stood in lengthening lines Saturday to buy tickets that flew out of machines at dizzying speeds.

S.C. sales: $11,000 a minute
West Virginia retailers cranked out tickets at a rate of 29 per second on Friday, said Libby White, the lottery’s marketing director. North Carolina and Virginia residents called the West Virginia lottery asking for directions to the closest retailer, she said.

Sales in South Carolina reached $11,000 a minute on Friday, “pretty staggering,� said John C.B. Smith, chairman of the state’s lottery commission.

Jerry Bono, a furniture mover from Omaha, said he averages $10 worth of Powerball tickets per week, but goes for the big jackpots and leaves the lesser games alone. “If I lose, I lose, but if I ever hit, I’d get out of here and move to Las Vegas,� he said.

Casey Symonds of Omaha bought $25 worth of tickets for himself and four co-workers Friday, saying: “I figure somebody is going to win it, so it might as well be me.�

The ticket holder has the option of taking the money in one lump sum or installments over 30 years. The cash option is $177.8 million, or $124.46 million after taxes. On the installment plan, the first payment would be $6,507,986 after taxes.

Powerball is played in 28 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.


what could you possibly do with all that money?

[burbboi]

man, that's a million dollars a day for a year!

[zorra_chiflada]

buy a small country.

[TurdBerglar]

yeah i could buy tasmania and turn it into a toilet

[zorra_chiflada]

:(

[TurdBerglar]

i seriously wouldn't know what to do with all that money. i'd definintetly stop working and going to school, though. i don't really like gigantic houses much. maybe i could buy a side of a mountain or something and turn into my own personal playground. i don't know. buy a sports team too? buy my all my family nice houses too? send my friends to school? i don't know. shit! there's so much.

[Bob]

i seriously wouldn't know what to do with all that money. i'd definintetly stop working and going to school, though. i don't really like gigantic houses much. maybe i could buy a side of a mountain or something and turn into my own personal playground. i don't know. buy a sports team too? buy my all my family nice houses too? send my friends to school? i don't know. shit! there's so much.

i would convert all the money to cash, possibly $1 bills, and hold it all in a room. i'd swim in the money

it'd be my money room

[TurdBerglar]

like scrooge mcduck?

[Bob]

like scrooge mcduck?

that's the ticket

[TurdBerglar]

i don't even think scrooge mcduck had 365 milliond dollars

[CJM]

what could you possibly do with all that money?


have lots, and lots of fun.

[DandyFop]

Yeah but Scrooge had a lot of coins. How the hell do you swim through coins :mad: ?:Sooooo unrealistic.

I often think of the gargantuan amount of money that say, a company like McDonald's makes. And it basically just confuses me, that these head guys are working so so hard to add to the millions that they already have....wouldn't it get to a point where there's just too much money? Unless of course you're giving a ton of it away..

[jackrock]

buy more money

[ms.peachy]

I am sure I could think of a few things. It would be great to know that my family would be sorted out, in terms of knowing that I would never need to worry about how I am going to care for my parents as they get older, or my disabled sister, or her son, because those are the things I worry about most. And I would love to be able to give my husband a huge chunk of money and say "Here you go darling; go build the buildings you want and be a fabulously innovative and exciting architect." And I'd give lots and lots of dough to groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood to keep fighting the good fight. And I'm sure support many other organisations doing worthwhile work in the world as well. In fact probably most of it would go 'away' from me, and flow outwards to bigger and better things. For me personally, I don't need so much - I could scrape by on just five or six million, really.

[enree erzweglle]

I'd want to stay anonymous.

I'd take care of my son, about six close friends, and my dad, sister, & brother. Not enough to make any of them rich, but enough that they could do the work that they really want to do, that they're meant to do.

Some for me to build a cabin and retire into, in just the area where I want to live and to be able to be warm/fed and supplied with health care. And books.

Some to one family who needs it.

Some for medical research; the rest to charity, although I don't know which one. I tend to think that I'd make it a very local charity rather than a national organization. Something like what Sister Helen used to run (her daughter runs it now)--something like that would be where the bulk of that money would wind up.

[Hiebz]

that is a lot of dough, but apparently it's not soooo hard to spend it. Ain't you seen the VH1 rockumentries on MC Hammer and the like, they blew away far more money than that.

There's 32,000 + memebers on this board, you could give out 1,000 dollars to each one an not notice a dent in the bucket :D

My immediate family would certainly have their houses paid off, and quite a bit of money to travel or do some fun stuff. I'd travel alot myself. Ski alot, maybe rent out the whole resort for the day. Start up radio stations throughout the country that run different selections of music with no commercials and give out prizes. Catch flyballs in the outfield during the warmup of a Major League baseball games. That's just the stuff after gobs of charity too. Invest a cool $100 million in a factory to produce hybrid vehicles and create jobs. Maybe buy cleaner vehicles for people to promote more of that too. That money could go away quicker than you think!

[instigator7022]

like scrooge mcduck?

Thats exactly what came to mind


I'd give alot of it away to friends, family, people who amuse me.

Then the 1/4 that i do keep (which is still entirely too much money) I would use to just go on cruises for the rest for my life with friends and familia

[cosmo105]

i'd put away enough to afford going to a really, really good art school, and i'd probably buy a lot of great photo equipment to set up a home studio. oh, and i'd get a nice home in which to put this all. somewhere in northern california.

and i'd buy my mom's home for her and set up a nice big fat retirement fund for her so she could stop working now if she wanted to (but she probably wouldn't). i'd set up a college fund for my little sister, and one for both my neice and nephew and buy a better house for my brother for all of them.

i'd fly matt's family out here whenever they wanted and fly us out there whenever we wanted. and i'd get my grandparents a live-in housekeeper that we could trust that would help them out a little.

i'd set up echewta with some prime real estate for his chocolate shop and get him a nice little warehouse and everything for storage.

i'd buy my best friend a VERY SAFE car and lots of driving lessons.

i'd definitely give a lot to relatives that needed it and spend some on me and matthew...but i'd try investing some and giving a good portion of it to worthy causes.

what i've read about lotto winners is that their families treat them like banks and it gets really bad to the point where they have to stop talking to them. that would suck. being rich as hell wouldn't, though.

[Ace42X]

what could you possibly do with all that money?

An Island, a mansion, shitloads of windmills and water-wheels, an armoury to keep away pirates, and enough food to last me and my family several lifetimes.

[CJM]

my answer was a little vague. i'd help out my family/friends, and then open up a deadly concrete park (the mayor/council is one of the most useless things out there). i'd probably open up a skate shop that also sold snowboard stuff, as well as dj equipment, and graffiti stuff. i would definately have a deadly mini-ramp in the back room of the shop, as well. i'd probably travel all over to skate, and snowboard.

[Bob]

a million, tops

[cosmo105]

fine, i'd buy every elephant in the world and have them stand on top of each other to reach the moon

[Bob]

fine, i'd buy every elephant in the world and have them stand on top of each other to reach the moon

that's the most retarded idea i've ever heard

you'd have to use giraffes, elephants would never reach

[cosmo105]

if they used their trunks they could

[na§tee]

i would skip about 10,20,30+ years of crappy freelancing and temp jobs in the film industry and be able go right to the only-for-the-priviledged-or-broke-or-prefixed-by-"lord"-status of producer. i would make the films that i wanted to and hopefully find an audience, some distribution, and some recognition.

i would make a speech that would make william h. macy and stephen fry cry at the baftas [did anyone see lord puttnam's - is that the right spelling? - fellowship acceptance speech? i was blubbing like a baby]. yeah. no more databases for me.

[bigblu89]

Dude, after taxes, that's gonna be, like, only $200 million or so.

[bigblu89]

I'd probably sell my house and buy something much nicer in a much better neighborhood.

Get myself, my wife and all of my family the cars of their dreams.

Settle whatever debts and loans me and my family have.

And just purchase random stuff at my leisure.

[bigblu89]

What should I say? I'd buy a Baseball team?

I don't have the smarts to make any purchase over $400,000, without it being a complete disaster.

So I'll settle all my debts, maybe get Mets season tickets, and just love the fact that I'd be retired at 28.

[Hiebz]

creative like paying you to snort cocaine and chocolate off your mom's ass with a hooker? How much would that take?

[Monsieur Decuts]

Monsieur Decuts center for children who can't read good and who want to learn how to do other stuff good too.

what is this a school for ants?

[abcdefz]

i seriously wouldn't know what to do with all that money. i'd definintetly stop working and going to school, though. i don't really like gigantic houses much. maybe i could buy a side of a mountain or something and turn into my own personal playground. i don't know. buy a sports team too? buy my all my family nice houses too? send my friends to school? i don't know. shit! there's so much.



Dude -- you could make, like, 1.4 James Cameron films with that.

[Bionic]

they guy sitting next to me at work just realized he had 4/5 numbers....

... he won a whopping $150!!!!

[bigblu89]

So, the 8 guys that split the winning ticket finally came forward. After all said and done, those 8 guys are getting about $15.5 million dollars each.

Still plenty of money to have your kid's kid's kids not to have to work, but it's not what everyone thought of when they originally read 365 Million Dollars.

And that's why my original statement of:

I'd probably sell my house and buy something much nicer in a much better neighborhood.

Get myself, my wife and all of my family the cars of their dreams.

Settle whatever debts and loans me and my family have.

And just purchase random stuff at my leisure.

Is still what I'd do.

[abcdefz]

I'd give some to charity, then probably start an arts non-profit with a digitally equipped movie studio, recording studios, artists' lofts, a stage, bookstore/coffeehouse sort of thing. A place where artists could have sabbaticals and produce work with a certain amount of artistic/commerical freedom. We'd have a radio station and some broadcast capabilities, etc.

[iceygirl]

id give a nice amount to charity, make some investments, buy a house or two, get a couple cars or something for my husband and me, and my family and best friend. pay off all debts, etc.

then i would take a long ass vacation and travel for like a month with my hubby. over the time of our travel, i would stop in various place and buy up some quality loose diamonds -like a bunch - all in varying colors and weights. when we got back i would become the person in the area to buy your rocks from. (the guy in town now is about to retire and im the one to fit the bill)