$135M lottery winner to boss: "I'm out of here"

Congratulation to Mr. Sneath.

Silly Floridians, MM are not for you!! (Unless you drive to the Georgia border at the El-Cheapo Gas station).

Hearsetrax -I guess it depends on your personal auto experience and how long you hang onto a car.  The best car I ever owned was an Oldsmobile.  I hope my Camry lasts as long.   Remember those Dodge Darts in the 60s & 70s?  You couldn't kill 'em. 

SmoothJuice - Used to think about driving to GA for a MM ticket, but at $3.39 a gallon it would cost me $100 bucks for 1 ticket! 

Just want to clarify... I made an earlier comment on this thread which sounded negative. The only reason I said it was wrong to knock Ford was because (a) he made $70K working in a warehouse when many people in this country get half for the same job, if they're lucky enough to have one  (b) he wouldn't have stayed 34 years if it was a lousy place to work (c) he's probably going to get a very nice pension & lifetime benefits from the company (d) knocking your employer only hurts the people who still have to get up in the morning and work their fingers to the bone

Still, I hope he has a happy & healthy life and is as generous as he promises to be.  Sometimes people say a lot of things in the heat of the moment.

I agree with justxploring in regards to the Ford comment.  But also want to add this -

I like when people who win like this leave there current job.  This then opens the position for someone else who might need the job or could move from a 40k job to the winners 60k job.  This helps the economy by creating one more job!   So for the people that win this kind of money and STAY in there jobs are not really helping create jobs.  And jobs are what fuel our economy.

For a $135m win, I'd say I'm outa here too!  At $20m is when I stop working for pay, and what work I will be doing won't be at the current location.  (I remember reading about a woman who won $70m and said she would still keep working at her same job.  Wonder how that all worked out?)

OTOH, being in Michigan myself why would anyone want to continue to live here year around?  Summers in Traverse City, maybe.  And why waste it on Mullet Lake when you can have the crystal blue waters of Torch Lake?  I'd be tempted to buy the place next door to my "significant ex's" place on Lake Missaukee and junk it up. (lol) He certainly won't be on my list of those to inform of my good fortune much less take him to the claiming. Sheesh.  Good for this guy that he has that relationship.

"This time, his son bought him $15 worth of tickets, picking numbers Sneath suggested. The winning combination — 4, 17, 26, 46 and 56, plus 25 for the Mega Ball — were numbers Sneath once got as a random pick and continues to play."

.....His son brought the tickets for him on his birthday.....  If the people at work want to fight this the burden of proof is on them as his son was not in the pool.

This is one of the best lotto stories. God Bless him!

The news reported that they had quoted him wrong....he did not slam Ford...the report was incorrect.

I am surprised he still want to live in Michigan.

Ditto...