$254 Million Lottery Winner Claims Money

[Mrs Behavin]

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. (Jan. 29) - A retired electrician and World War II veteran is the winner of the largest lottery jackpot ever sold in Missouri - worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars.
Jim Wilson II, 84, and his wife, Shirley, 79, say they will share the money with three sons. One of those sons, Terry Wilson , who said he hasn't had a vacation in 30 years, likely will be headed to Australia for some rest and recreation.
The Wilsons, all of St. Louis, have been buying family Powerball tickets for years with the understanding that they'd share any winnings, the Missouri Lottery said.

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[Peter Parka]

Damn, what couldn't I do with that amount of money!:eek

 

[Trance97]

Damn, what couldn't I do with that amount of money!:eek

You would make a lot of friends! That something that would naturally happen.

 

[lemon]

invest it, make more. take bigger vacations.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Thats one hell of a retirement nest egg for their kids, grand kids, great grand kids, great great grand kids, great great great grand kids, great grea... well, you get the idea.

 

[Mrs Behavin]

Why cant I ever get lucky like that? I never win anything!

 

[Sarah2613]

:eek Talk about lucky.

 

[Reaver]

lame that he'll only get half of it.... But still.... It's more money than I could spend.

 

[Eridanus]

*sigh* I was so delighted with my little windfall of $5 from a scratchie last week...until I saw the amount of that other winner's windfall; only now do I realise how misplaced my delight was...

That $5 bought me McDonald's for lunch. That's a good thing? Isn't it?

Seriously though, good luck to the gentleman and his family.

 

[Trance97]

I think I would be totally confused to have that much money and probably paraniod.

 

[hhayes]

thats alotta moolah!

 

[GuesSAngel]

*sigh* I was so delighted with my little windfall of $5 from a scratchie last week...until I saw the amount of that other winner's windfall; only now do I realise how misplaced my delight was...

That $5 bought me McDonald's for lunch. That's a good thing? Isn't it?

Seriously though, good luck to the gentleman and his family.

at least you got 5 bucks and a free meal.

I can't understand why its always the old people that win the lottery. what the heck is up with that?

 

[Trance97]

at least you got 5 bucks and a free meal.

I can't understand why its always the old people that win the lottery. what the heck is up with that?

That's not always the case. It's usually the people that never bought a lottery ticket there whole life then all the sudden buy one and win.

 

[Haus]

i dont know what the hell i would do with all that money. i would most defenately share the wealth thats for sure. buy a house, Few Muscle cars, buy a F350 and put a huge lift on it. 04 Stage 3 Roush mustang. send my younger cousins that arent in college yet to college, buy Christy Canyon for a night, give alot to charities, give the person who sold me the ticket some money, give some money to all of you guys.

and invest

 

[lemon]

i dont know what the hell i would do with all that money. i would most defenately share the wealth thats for sure. buy a house, Few Muscle cars, buy a F350 and put a huge lift on it. 04 Stage 3 Roush mustang. send my younger cousins that arent in college yet to college, buy Christy Canyon for a night, give alot to charities, give the person who sold me the ticket some money, give some money to all of you guys.

and invest

they get a slice automatically, like 50k, especially since the winnings are big.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

they get a slice automatically, like 50k, especially since the winnings are big.

uh... where'd you hear that from? I've talked about a BP gas station that I go into a lot, they had a 300k winner on the Hoosier lottery and the people behind the counter didn't see a dime of it.

 

[Haus]

James is right(si) the person who sold the ticket doesnt get anything. its the place where the winning ticket was purchase gets the money. or the owners pocket.