Power Ball

[BF]

Now over 500 million. 

Ya can't win if ya ain't in.   

[Oklahoma_Valk]

When Reb wins, we're building a mansion in the smokey mountains.

[Gavin_Sons]

If I win im building a 300 room resort in the smokies just for valkyrie members to use whenever they want free of charge. Harley riders will pay a rate of 400 bucks a night. This will include free gas, a 10 bay garage for wrenching and all the spare parts you could ask for. Just a little something to give back to all the great people on this site. Of course ill have a big house on the property also. maybe they will even want to hold an inzane there.

[..]

http://www.richmountainrealty.com/listing.aspx?id=222720

http://logcabin.pro/mls/224477/

[BF]

Well......somebody is about a half a billion richer now.   

[donaldcc]

If I win im building a 300 room resort in the smokies just for valkyrie members to use whenever they want free of charge. Harley riders will pay a rate of 400 bucks a night. This will include free gas, a 10 bay garage for wrenching and all the spare parts you could ask for. Just a little something to give back to all the great people on this site. Of course ill have a big house on the property also. maybe they will even want to hold an inzane there.

  hope you win, i will come visit. ca is in different lotto so we can't even dream for 2 dollars.

[Rams]

Well......somebody is about a half a billion richer now.   

Well shucks and here I had made all these plans on how to spend that money.   Oops, gotta go.  It seems I need to cancel some pretty pricey orders.  Oz, you out there?   

[DIGGER]

oh well,

I OWE....I OWE....IT'S BACK TO WORK I GO

[old2soon]

And i'm sad to report i didn't win either.  Had someone in Missouri got a piece of it though.  So i guess chrome plating my Phatt Ghurl will be put on hold-again.  RIDE SAFE.

[Master Blaster]

Someone in Arizona, hope it was Psycho and F6Gal.

[WamegoRob]

Lady as the gas station this morning said there were 71 people that won $1 million, too.

[czuch]

I've already won twice. It didnt change me at all.
Still crazy about the wife and still live at the same address. Still going to work every day and have the same friends. They dont ask for anything because they know I turned around and bought two more tickets both times. But I won!!!

[BF]

I got 5 out of 6 on the Florida Lottery once. 

Won a little over 5 1/2 grand that time.   

[Gryphon Rider]

http://www.richmountainrealty.com/listing.aspx?id=222720

http://logcabin.pro/mls/224477/

I'm no realtor, but if those properties were situated within 50 miles of Calgary, they would be considered a bargain!

[BF]

http://www.richmountainrealty.com/listing.aspx?id=222720

http://logcabin.pro/mls/224477/

I'm no realtor, but if those properties were situated within 50 miles of Calgary, they would be considered a bargain!

This is what 6 mil will get ya 'round here. 

btw.....If anyone on the board has that kind of scratch layin' around, this property is for sale now. 

The Clary Estate

[DIGGER]

Sitting around at lunch yesterday  we were all talking about what is the first thing you would buy if you won the powerball........we each had our version......then one of the guys here on the construction job said "Iffin I won that there powerball......I'd buy the biggest 2 story Moble Home they make.

[fudgie]

I'd drop a few grand at the tt bar and my fav girls. Hell, I may buy them for the night. 

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Winning tickets sought in $588M Powerball jackpot....




DEARBORN, Mo. — The search is on for the country's newest multimillionaires, the holders of two tickets that matched all six numbers to split a record $588 million Powerball jackpot.

Lottery officials said Thursday that the winning tickets matching all six numbers were sold at a convenience store in suburban Phoenix and a gas station just off an interstate highway in a small northwestern Missouri town. Neither ticket holder had come forward.

The mystery fueled a giddy mood at the Trex Mart just outside Dearborn, Mo., as lottery officials and the media descended on the town of 500 people.

Cashiers Kristi Williams and Kelly Blount greeted customers with big smiles and questions about whether they had bought the winning ticket. No one had come forward to claim the prize by late Thursday morning, Missouri Lottery officials said.

"It's just awesome," Williams said. "It's so exciting. We can't even work."

Karen Meyers, a server at the Cook's Corner Cafe, where the daily special was roast beef and potatoes, said she didn't believe it at first when she heard the winning ticket had been sold nearby.

"I think it's wonderful! I hope someone local won it, not someone just passing through," she said. "It's a small town where everyone is really nice."

Kevin Bryan bought his ticket at the Trex Mart and made an extra trip to his mother's home in Dearborn to verify that the ticket he left on her counter wasn't, in fact, the winner.

"When I heard it was sold here in Dearborn I about fell over," Bryan said, as he hung Christmas lights outside his mother's home.

He said the only other local lottery win he could remember was when an area farmer won about $100,000 in scratch-off game years ago "and bought himself a combine."

The winning ticket sold in Arizona was purchased at a 4 Sons Food Store in Fountain Hills, state lottery officials said. Customers poured into the store, to check their tickets and share in the big moment.

"I think it's crazy, and I also think it's great," said Bob Chebat, who manages the 4 Sons. "I'm glad that all that work yesterday wasn't for nothing."

The store was swept up in a nationwide ticket-buying spree preceding Wednesday's drawing, with the big money enticing many people who rarely, if ever, play the lottery to buy a shot at the payout.

Clerks at 4 Sons sold 986 Powerball tickets Wednesday, which Chebat said was well above average.

Baron Hartell, son of the owner of the Missouri store, said if the winner isn't a local resident it might have been a truck driver. Interstate 29 connects Kansas City to the Canadian border, so it's a busy thoroughfare in both directions.

"Even the truck drivers who come around, we see them every day, so they all feel like all locals to us," he said.

Store manager Chris Naurez said business had been "crazy" for Powerball tickets lately and that the store had sold about $27,000 worth of tickets in the last few days.

"This really puts Dearborn on the map," he said.

Kenny Gilbert, the general manager of Trex Mart, suggested his staff would be sharing in the $50,000 bounty that the store will be awarded for selling one of the winning tickets.

"The response from the owner was, `I guess we'll be able to give out Christmas bonuses,'" Gilbert said. "That's nice, especially at this time of year."

It appeared the winners had yet to come forward, and it wasn't clear if the tickets had been bought by individuals or groups. Winners have 180 days to claim their share of the prize money.

The numbers drawn Wednesday night were 5, 16, 22, 23, 29. The Powerball was 6. The $587.5 million payout represents the second-largest jackpot in U.S. history.

"If you find you're holding the winning ticket, be sure you sign the back and put it in a safe place until you can take it to a Missouri Lottery office," said May Scheve Reardon, executive director of the Missouri Lottery. "You will also want to get some legal and financial advice before you claim."

Americans went on a ticket-buying spree in the run-up to Wednesday's drawing, the big money enticing many people who rarely, if ever, play the lottery to purchase a shot at the second-largest payout in U.S. history.

Tickets sold at a rate of 130,000 a minute nationwide — about six times the volume from a week ago. That pushed the jackpot even higher, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Multi-State Lottery Association. The jackpot rolled over 16 consecutive times without a winner.

In a Mega Millions drawing in March, three ticket buyers shared a $656 million jackpot. This remains the largest lottery payout of all time.

[musclehead]

we went absolutely wacko, bonkers, nutsy, toys in the attic. we doubled what we normaly spend on powerball. $4.00, didn't win either 

[Mr Whiskey]

I'm not worried, O'bummer's gonna take care of me, BWAAAAHaHaHa!!!
Peace, Whiskey.