A family we know just hit the lottery

We know this family from Boy Scouts and both kids were/are students in my wife's high school. Small school 60 students in each grade. Anyway, the father Tom along with 15 of his coworkers hit the big mega millions of $428 million Wednesday night. A total of 3 tickets were sold. After tax, I think they will take home around $3.75 million. Now the headaches will start. They are very grounded people, so I don't think they will go crazy, one of the kids is now in her 2nd year of medical school while the other one is a senior in high school. Both parents work, and they live in an area that was pretty destroyed in hurricane Sandy last year as did many of the other 15 workers. This will be one county government road department that will lose all their mechanics.

Good for the people involved in the win. Just about the only opportunities America has left is to win a lotto jackpot.

Good to see it was spread out over many people.

Now who on this site was looking for a job as a mechanic?

Amazing. Even knowing a lottery winner has to be long odds.

My wife won a lottery-like event this last week. Her employer from 15yrs ago lost a lawsuit for taking out too much payroll tax. She collected a $22k check out of the blue. Thank gawd the lawyers didn't collect all the money and give everyone else pennies on the dollar.

Good for your wife.

Diesel Dan wrote:

Good to see it was spread out over many people.

Now who on this site was looking for a job as a mechanic?

Good bye new york...

Diseasel wrote:

Amazing. Even knowing a lottery winner has to be long odds.

My wife won a lottery-like event this last week. Her employer from 15yrs ago lost a lawsuit for taking out too much payroll tax. She collected a $22k check out of the blue. Thank gawd the lawyers didn't collect all the money and give everyone else pennies on the dollar.

Awesome! Good for her... and you.  

It's perfect timing. We're in the process of replacing our beat-up carpets and buying bedroom sets for the kids.

Nice! I'm sure the kids appreciate it.

As for winning the lottery. Wow! That's cool.