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24 employees at Toledo retirement home rejoice over big lottery win
Mega Millions: 24 employees at Toledo retirement home rejoice over big lottery win
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Lest there be any confusion, David Moyer and Peggy Park want everyone to know morale is now high among employees at Oakleaf Village of Toledo.
Scratch that. Practically everyone, including the retirees, were going bonkers Wednesday after learning that 24 of the 77 employees at the retirement home had just won $250,000 from the Ohio Lottery's Mega Millions game. They hit on five of six numbers with their best ticket.
Mr. Moyer, the facility's general manager, and Ms. Park, its care director, were among those who threw in a buck and are entitled to their 1/24th portion of the winnings. They figured out that those who participated will come away with a cool $7,187.50 after taxes.
Workers at the facility, at 4220 Holland-Sylvania Rd., have done an informal office lottery pool for 15 years. They usually only play when the pot exceeds $200 million. The jackpot now stands at $325 million, given that there was no jackpot winner in Tuesday night's drawing.
While they fell one number short of the big prize, employees were delirious about their $250,000 winning.
Joyous workers said there was far more hootin' and hollering than one would expect from a normally sedate retirement home as they celebrated the win and started to decide how they would spend their winnings.
Those who weren't in on the office pool congratulated the 24 who were. Not surprisingly, some who sat out Tuesday night's drawing are getting in on the office pool for the next drawing, which is on Friday night, said Jan Krueger, a receptionist who coordinates the office pool.
"The residents are very happy for us," Mr. Moyer said.
So is the facility's postal carrier. The mailman was among those getting in on this office pool entry, he said.
 (Click for full-size; opens in new window)Lottery playing participants include in front row from left; David Moyer, general manager, Gussie Wilson, Alison Ostrosky, and Jan Krueger, right.
Toledo Blade
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New Member  brooklyn, Ny United States Member #79553 August 26, 2009 20 Posts Offline |
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Wow. congratulation. It would have been better if it was the jackpot. Hopefully, this time no group going to win the jackpot. it will a single person or two. I will be one of the them
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MI United States Member #55299 August 31, 2007 818 Posts Offline |
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They should all pitch in a 1,000 of that for Friday! 24,000 tickets? They're sure to win something.  Okay so they probably don't have the money yet.... But still it'd be interesting to see what that many tickets would get them. With odds like 1 in 175,711,536 how can I lose?!
You can't predict random.
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10823 Posts Offline |
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They should all pitch in a 1,000 of that for Friday! 24,000 tickets? They're sure to win something. Okay so they probably don't have the money yet.... But still it'd be interesting to see what that many tickets would get them. If anyone really wanted to know what 24,000 lines would get them they could just run a test and use a RNG to generate that many lines for a file and see what happens. We already know over 77,000,000 combinations were sold for Tuesday night drawing and 25 tickets had 5+0 and none had 5+1. * What happens most *
* will most likely happen again *
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Center of New York State United States Member #55518 September 8, 2007 2601 Posts Offline |
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"Those who weren't in on the office pool congratulated the 24 who were" - wow thats a switch from what we normally read. Money won is twice as good as money earned!
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United States Member #59339 February 27, 2008 53 Posts Offline |
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"Those who weren't in on the office pool congratulated the 24 who were" - wow thats a switch from what we normally read. I suspect it might be a bit different if there were a jackpot involved.
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Houston, TX United States Member #4576 April 29, 2004 50 Posts Online |
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Congratulations to the pool.
I hope it doesn't take any of my pools this long to win something substantial. At this point I think those in the oldest pool (about 5 years old) would be happy to hit for $100. Patience. I must remember to have patience. I've been playing by myself off and on for 20 years (started in KY) and would be happy to hit for $100. But I know my time is coming..........soon.........really soon......... ________________________
Playing together to make a splash in the pool of lottery winners. It's just a matter of time.
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mid-Ohio United States Member #9 March 24, 2001 10823 Posts Offline |
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I suspect it might be a bit different if there were a jackpot involved. You could be right, if those 24 players were headed to Cleveland to collect the $252M jackpot some of their co-workers might think their intentions of adding a dollar to the pot should count for something. After all some of them had been playing off and on for 15 years. * What happens most *
* will most likely happen again *
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North Carolina United States Member #1662 June 7, 2003 3995 Posts Online |
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Congratulations to them, I am glad they won but I wouldn't want to be the 50 some other employees who didn't play!!!!!
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Austin United States Member #9550 December 6, 2004 81 Posts Offline |
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$7187.50 after taxes. Nothing to retire on. Wonder how much that home costs per month.
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United States United States Member #68752 December 16, 2008 128 Posts Offline |
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Congrats to the winners....WTG "Wait eagerly for the Lord, and keep to the way; God wil raise you to possess the land; you will gloat when the wicked are cut off".
Psalms 37:34
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Massachusetts United States Member #37842 April 14, 2006 142 Posts Offline |
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guys in Ohio are really into lotto pooling, wow. Such unity is rare from my side of the country.
Infact the state laws here will only recognize one person as the winner and it's up to him or
her to pay the taxes and then distribute the money as they deem fit.
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Wandering Aimlessly United States Member #25708 November 5, 2005 4381 Posts Offline |
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$7187.50 after taxes. Nothing to retire on. Wonder how much that home costs per month. I agree, but it's the thrill of it. When I saw "retirement home" I was hoping some of its residents won.
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Ohio United States Member #68898 December 20, 2008 67 Posts Offline |
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guys in Ohio are really into lotto pooling, wow. Such unity is rare from my side of the country.
Infact the state laws here will only recognize one person as the winner and it's up to him or
her to pay the taxes and then distribute the money as they deem fit. Gotta love that "east coast" mentality: "It's all MINE". I have nothing against it (I'm from there) it's just something I've notices. Also I have found the further west you go, the nicer, trusting and more easy going people are, particularly in those big square states in the middle of the country...
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United States Member #32929 February 12, 2006 167 Posts Offline |
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glad you said middle, cease i was about to say, CA is full of dicks and stupid people
their about as west as you get lol
also check youtube guys, it seem thier a ton of local media stories on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erKKgx-VSlY
"its been very busy, i like sold 90 dollars of tickets to 1 person"
AND some guy form their state lotto dict was on their talking about it
am sure the lotto states of mm, are grining form ear to ear, and are dreaming of it not being hit and having a new sales record for next one LOL, money money ya ya
this jackpot going to more then make their year worth it for the mm states
hell if it does roll, with pb cap, mm will be will over 400 m, even some say 450ish, pb has no chance in hell of breaking a record like that with their <snip> CAP for new record setting jackpots,
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