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Lotto winner in Palm Beach, Florida (Original Post)
Emile
Mar 2024
OP
If he took the cash and paid the tax on it, it would still only be around a quarter of a billion.
fierywoman
Mar 2024
#1
Oh sorry, I was looking at Powerball cash for WA state, which is $357 milliion before fed taxes.
fierywoman
Mar 2024
#16
I am surprised it isn't written in Cyrillic, which would be so much more appropriate, IMO.
Ford_Prefect
Mar 2024
#8
fierywoman
(8,594 posts)1. If he took the cash and paid the tax on it, it would still only be around a quarter of a billion.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,876 posts)14. $331,254,000 in Florida after federal taxes...
Give or take a few thousand.
fierywoman
(8,594 posts)16. Oh sorry, I was looking at Powerball cash for WA state, which is $357 milliion before fed taxes.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,876 posts)18. I had a brain fart!
I was looking at the Mega Millions, which has a jackpot of $1.1 billion! As Emily Litella would say....

fierywoman
(8,594 posts)19. ...
Emile
(42,281 posts)21. Never mind, lol I laugh every time I play that. 😂
malaise
(296,076 posts)2. Looks just like his
MARKER
Takket
(23,714 posts)3. magic marker prevents hurricanes and predicts lotto winning numbers!!!!!!
Rebl2
(17,738 posts)15. My thinking too
tfg tried it for hurricanes, so ..
Blue Owl
(59,086 posts)5. Bwahahahaha -- the work of a stable genius!!!
tavernier
(14,443 posts)6. I wouldn't be a bit surprised
If they gave him the money.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)7. Looks legit.
Ford_Prefect
(8,610 posts)8. I am surprised it isn't written in Cyrillic, which would be so much more appropriate, IMO.
GreenWave
(12,640 posts)9. Great job!
mountain grammy
(29,034 posts)10. hahaha
padfun
(1,897 posts)11. If he sues for the winnings, the Supreme Court will probably back him.
nt
GreenWave
(12,640 posts)26. He has immunity from wrong numbers!
Shermann
(9,062 posts)28. The Florida Lottery run by Democrats has treated him very unfairly! nt
et tu
(2,387 posts)29. it will have to go
before loose cannon first
orangecrush
(30,247 posts)13. ...
Talitha
(7,986 posts)17. Excellent !!!!!
DoBW
(3,223 posts)20. Witness: he smelled bad
and had a weird little bald guy following him around
Kid Berwyn
(24,374 posts)22. Luzer Orange got just one digit pulled.
Not even matched a number, just a 6.
Like Hendrix asked, What if six turned out to be nine?
Drumpfd still be nothing.
Niagara
(11,849 posts)23. Bahahaha!
Prairie_Seagull
(4,688 posts)24. Smiled through this whole thread and that
takes some doing. Pointed and still humorous. Wife has recently been calling me curmudgeonly. Damn I don't want to be that guy. Get off my lawn ya little shitbirds.
Threads like this help.
Thanks.
Prairie_Seagull
(4,688 posts)25. Ironically, see what I mean, shit sorry.
should have kept it rolling. haha
padah513
(2,710 posts)27. And he did it with a Sharpie
calimary
(90,010 posts)31. Perfect!
Old Crank
(7,072 posts)30. Nice.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,822 posts)32. TFG needs to be able to post his bond
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,235 posts)33. lol
Norbert
(7,762 posts)34. He will bully the Lottery Commission until they accept it.
