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re: Winner of the $1.5 billion powerball still hasn't come forward
Posted on 2/14/19 at 3:18 pm to AUTimbo
Posted on 2/14/19 at 3:18 pm to AUTimbo
Guy that won it is a 24 yr old engineering tech that worked at the ZF Transmission factory in Fountain Inn, just south of Greenville. Winning ticket was bought at a gas station less than two miles from my house.
Heard something similar. My son lives in Ft. Inn about 2 miles from the store where it was bought in Simpsonville.
Heard something similar. My son lives in Ft. Inn about 2 miles from the store where it was bought in Simpsonville.
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Posted on 2/14/19 at 4:00 pm to TechDawg2007
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What would be the reasoning for not coming forward yet?
Ol’ baw is waiting on his divorce to become final
Posted on 2/14/19 at 4:12 pm to idlewatcher
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States make out like a bandit on these unclaimed tickets. ALLLLLL the money goes back to the participating states, yet there is no declared winner of the ticket.
this is false
Read an article this morning that if no one claims the prize South Carolina is out over $60 million. If no one wins the states don 't get their share and South Carolina already put the projected money into their budget.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 4:13 pm to TigerCoon
I’d love the notoriety if I won.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 4:38 pm to TechDawg2007
I would have been on tv the next day.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 5:06 pm to WestCoastAg
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idk, id wait until the very last second before claiming all that money just to make sure i have gone over everything and that i have everything in place
Nah, i'd be down there the very next morning in line waiting to turn that thing in.
Life happens, no one plans it, lots of way that shite could end up in not your hands though.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 5:10 pm to AUTimbo
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Guy that won it is a 24 yr old engineering tech that worked at the ZF Transmission factory in Fountain Inn, just south of Greenville. Winning ticket was bought at a gas station less than two miles from my house.
I'm sure he is getting his stuff in order and was hoping the attention would settle down but I think he made a mistake in waiting too long. Hell even the state is tired of waiting because South Carolina is getting over 61 million in state tax from his winnings, something they have mentioned recently in several news articles.
SC is luckily one of the states where winners can remain anonymous, so I don't imagine you'll be seeing too many pics of him getting the check. More than likely his attorney will handle that while Shane (Did I say that out loud? ) watches from a tv in remote Upstate SC somewhere.
Whoever he is, hes dumb for waiting this long.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 5:23 pm to TigerCoon
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Assuming a $750,000,000 cash prize,
It's $878,000,000
Posted on 2/14/19 at 5:28 pm to TechDawg2007
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"each participating state in the Mega Millions game will get back all the money that state contributed to the unclaimed jackpot.
That’s bullshite. Put it back in the pot, not to the politicians..... I mean states.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 5:36 pm to Evolved Simian
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It's $878,000,000
Wow. I didn't look it up...just cut 1.5B in half to estimate the cash prize.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 5:37 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Whoever he is, hes dumb for waiting this long.
Of course he is dumb. He is playing the lottery
Posted on 2/14/19 at 5:38 pm to SippyCup
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put it back in the pot
I always assumed thats what happens :(
Posted on 2/14/19 at 5:38 pm to TechDawg2007
Likely some poor bastard threw away the ticket not thinking he could possibly win.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 5:41 pm to AUTimbo
Nvm it's not this guy.
After googling it looks like the guy's name is Shane Missler and hes about 20 years old.
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The winner of this appears to be a young man that lives just down the road from here. He has not come forward yet, and may not ever as SC doesn't require winners to reveal themselves. He is a 20 year old team leader at the ZF transmission plant in Gray Court, SC (or he was, he apparently no longer works there for obvious reasons). Word is he went to work as usual this morning and found out that the winner was from SC. Went to the break room mid morning to check tickets he bought yesterday, turned around and told the people in the break room he was a billionaire then walked straight out the door and to his car and left. Didn't come back, friends and co-workers there haven't been able to reach him, deleted his Facebook account this afternoon, etc.
This post was edited on 2/14/19 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 2/14/19 at 8:01 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Word is he went to work as usual this morning and found out that the winner was from SC. Went to the break room mid morning to check tickets he bought yesterday, turned around and told the people in the break room he was a billionaire then walked straight out the door and to his car and left.
Almost verbatim the story I heard from people that work for me that have friends at ZF
Posted on 2/14/19 at 8:03 pm to TechDawg2007
Does the store not have security video and has ID’ed the winner? I’ve seen them release that before
Posted on 2/14/19 at 8:05 pm to AUTimbo
I mean he has over $500 mil, with all due respect to you guys saying he is wasting money (I agree) that $60k a day is arse whipping money.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 8:14 pm to baldona
Buddy of mine that's a financial analyst in Hotlanta ran the numbers and came up with a figure of somewhere in the neighborhood of $108,000 to spend,per WEEK, on safe investing and NEVER touching the principle......boggles the mind.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 8:31 pm to phutureisyic
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Like I said before, the dude probably died of a heart attack and nobody knows he won.
Here is the ethical delima that could play out in that scenario.
What if you are an EMT and were dispatched to that call and somehow got a peek at the winning ticket what would you do.
He lived alone and just barely made the call to 911, but died while trying to bring him back.
Posted on 2/14/19 at 8:37 pm to TechDawg2007
I dont like not being the one who won that.
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