Unknown Oregonian is $340M richer
Last Updated Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:44:10 EDT
CBC News
Someone who bought a Powerball lottery ticket in Oregon woke up $340 million US richer Thursday morning.
A single winner picked all six numbers and beat odds of 146 million to 1 to win the second-biggest jackpot in U.S. history.
The winner hadn't come forward by Thursday morning.
Powerball officials said they can't tell exactly where in Oregon the ticket was purchased. The tickets are sold in 27 states.
The prize pot had been building for 10 weeks, with nobody winning the big prize in Powerball's twice-weekly draw.
Whoever won the $340-million prize Wednesday night won't get to keep the whole jackpot. The U.S. government taxes such winnings.
The biggest lottery jackpot ever awarded in the country was $363 million. Two ticket holders shared the prize in 2000.
What would you do with $340 million? Comment. I think I'd donate about $300 million to my favorite charities, put the remaining $40 mill in an interest-bearing trust fund, sell all my stuff, move to Tuvalu and secede from the rat race.
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Ooh.
1. Give all of my friends $500,000 each then fly everyone to Fiji for 5 days, for a posh group vacation, all expenses paid.
2. Put $10MM in Eliot's trust fund (which he cannot touch until he is 27 - I think that was smart of me) and augment my nieces' and nephew's trust funds.
3. Buy a modest house on the beach somewhere easy to reach from both CA and AZ.
4. Buy a chinchilla coat.
5. Pay off all debt.
6. Pay off all of Eric's debt.
7. Buy a cute house in Hollywood.
8. Buy a membership in one of those private jet thingies so I could fly back and forth between CA and AZ and the beach house and wherever else I wanna go.
9. Spend maybe $50MM to sponsor an elementary school in a shitty district somewhere rough and urban, fixing up the building, providing school supplies to each kid, revamping the library, hiring better teachers, making sure they had art and music education, providing regular nutritious breakfasts and lunches for free, and hiring an on-campus doctor to take care of everyone.
10. Invest the rest and live off interest. Spend whatever, whenever I want. Believe it or not, it would not be totally selfish spending.
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