World's biggest lottery jackpot won by three tickets

Scary.  Maybe Ghost Hunters can investigate. Seriously.  I love that show.

Yeah same here, love and believe that paranormal stuff!   

I have one other account, a very large dental practice which my company has been cleaning for over 12 years. Coincidentally it's located

in the same town (Milford), where the church/parish hall was haunted. A couple years back the owner (and one of the dentists), of this

practice died in a tragic car accident. The practice still continues. Several times when I have gone in to inspect the completed work, usually

in the evening, I have seen silhouettes of this former doctor floating down one of the hallways near his old office!!! It's not really scary

for me to see that anymore, more like he's just part of the wood work. I would sometimes also feel the floors shaking for no apparent reason?

Will this Powerball trend continue? Will we have another winner come Wednesday? Will that be YOU?

ROLL. 

ooooohhh you are braver than me! So do you think it is a risidual haunting or something more serious?

I know for the Mega drawing there were 651 million tickets sold for the Friday drawing. Some stories were saying 1.45 billion tickets were sold but that was the total ticket sales for all the drawings since the jackpot started at 12 million and rolled 18 times.

You don't think its big enough for me to take home yet aye? How thoughtful of you!

MG:

thanks 4 sharing ur spirits>>>>>>>>>>!

a sudden gust of wind inside the building!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>!!

Nobody would work there anymore!!!!!!!!!!!

psykomo

If your referring to the dental practice, I believe it is nothing more than the good (deceased) doctor coming back to try and tie up some loose

ends. He fell asleep at the wheel before crashing his car into a tree, he died instantly. He never had any preparation for his next spiritual stage.

I was actually good friends with him, and since this practice was such a big part of his life I think he is trying to resolve his confusion by

occupying his old stomping grounds. Interesting story, I was in his old office actually doing the cleaning for one of my people on vacation that

week. Just as I was finishing up in his old office, the radio in the room suddenly came on, and it was blaring! At the same time the phone was ringing

off the hook. This was a Sunday evening around 9:00PM

I consider him harmless, and do not feel there is anything else contributing to these events. He is probably just feeling very confused, and gravitated

back to one of the most familiar areas in his life.   

I also believe some people are more spiritually in tune, and can communicate with others that have passed on. Call it a gift, or a curse?   

Yeah to many people are afraid of ghosts, shouldn't be, there just ordinary people who are just returning back from the dead.

What's the big deal??? 

No, Simba774, it appears that Joe Denette and his wife have slowed down their spending from the last 2.7 years, if now, due to their remaining principle and new investments they have approximately $25M-$30M remaining.  I don't know where Barbara Walters got her spending information from, as they've ONLY purchased about $8M worth of items.  The only way that Barbara could be correct if she is deducting from the Annuity amount of $75M, then subtracting for the lump-sum amount cost, then subtracting for apx. 35% Federal Income Taxes, then lastly subtracting for the 4% State Income Taxes. 

Regardless of Barbara's unmentioned mainly 'spending via taxes,' it appeared that the Denette Family are satisfied with their: Nascar Team, 6 ATVs, 2 Monster Buses, 6 vehicles, and 6 houses w/big playgrounds.  It also appears that the Denettes started at least one business where Joe's wife is paid weekly into her individual checking account -- and doesn't spend those monies ... appears to have planned this as her 'family's emergency account'.

The Denettes still appeared to be very happy.  Joe is apparently good at tracking their net worth; as he knew EXACTLY the range ($25M-$30M) that his family's accounts were at when Barbara Walters asked him!

I'm uplifted that Joe is glad that none of his family members need to pursue working a 'job' anymore! 

The guy's name is Joe Denette. He split a $227 million MM jackpot (3-ways) drawn on May 1, 2009. The annuity as  $75.6 mil but he opted for the $47.8 million lump sum payout. After 25% fed taxes and 4% VA state taxes, he took home a little over $33 million. That still would have left him with an additional Fed tax liability of $4.78 million unless he found a way to mitigate this...and from what I observed on the 20/20 show it didn't seem like he opened up any kind of charitable trust or gave any to charity.

That said, he may only have about $9 million left (he mentioned on TV that he had almost 1/2 of it left) which doesn't seem possible.

A NASCAR team, 2 motor coaches, 6 homes and a bunch of toys! I don't think this guy will stop until he's broke. Sorry if I sound negative as I don't wish a financial melt down on anyone but his spending is out of control. Give him 2-3 more years and if he doesn't come to his senses or someone doesn't intervene(his wife had no control over the money) he will be broke.   

His attitude is very similar to the original interview they did on TLC with David Edwards (medieval collector/drug addict), not a care in the world and thinking his funds would never dwindle. 

Alway's lookin out for my fellow LP'ers rad, what can I say?   

Let the fighting begin.  Just heard on the news a MC Donald's worker is claiming she won one of the 3 jackpots, BUT her co-workers are claiming it's a ticket from the pool at work. 

Apparently the woman  (37 year old Mirlande Wilson), was the organizer of a lotto pool at McDonald's, where she collected $5 from the

participating co-workers for the Mega drawing on Friday. Mirlande is now claiming she went off and purchased a separate ticket on her own,

and that was the lone winning ticket. She wants to claim the lump sum winnings of over $105 million for herself only. Her co-workers are

furious, and are claiming she ripped them off.   

Should make for a long and drawn out juicy story for all of us LP'ers!!!                

Note: She claimed on the way back from work in Maryland (McDonald's), she decided to stop at the 7-11 to get the winning ticket)

All her co-workers make $7.50/hour