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Lottery corrected their earlier press release. Watertown had a 1mm winner, the jackpot winner was Chicopee (90 miles west).
I was wrong too. The season tickets are sold in Braintree.
My state didn't even have a single 1 mil winner. CA had three, and I assume multiples in other states too but I was too depressed to scan the whole list. I didn't even win a dollar.
A Massachusetts hospital worker has claimed the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot, and says she always thought winning the lottery was ‘‘a pipe dream.’’
Fifty-three-year-old Mavis L. Wanczyk, of Chicopee, says she was leaving work at night with a Chicopee firefighter, and they were discussing Powerball.
That’s when she realized she won. She says he followed her home to make sure she got there safely.
Wanczyk says the first thing she wants to do is sit back and relax. She says she has called work to let them know she won’t be back.
While not a lot of planning going on there, I hope she will ok in the long run!
Being her age, she would have been wise to collect the ticket with her children in a trust. Right off the bat she is paing 48%+ in taxes. No reason to pay another 45% with a death tax in just a few years.
hot damn. This time only one person took the jackpot.
Better hide quick.
Change identity, get plastic surgery, and move somewhere where the sun don't shine.
Thousands of people will be hounding her.
Charities, attorneys, personal security guards, "financial planners", fund managers, snake oil salesmen, exotic car dealers
If she takes the $480 million lump sum, and gives herself a $100k yearly allowance, that money would last 48 centuries !!!
Her kids' kids' kids' ^10 don't have to work.
a $1m yearly allowance would still last almost 5 centuries.
A Massachusetts hospital worker has claimed the $758.7 million Powerball jackpot, and says she always thought winning the lottery was ‘‘a pipe dream.’’
Fifty-three-year-old Mavis L. Wanczyk, of Chicopee, says she was leaving work at night with a Chicopee firefighter, and they were discussing Powerball.
That’s when she realized she won. She says he followed her home to make sure she got there safely.
Wanczyk says the first thing she wants to do is sit back and relax. She says she has called work to let them know she won’t be back.
While not a lot of planning going on there, I hope she will ok in the long run!
Being her age, she would have been wise to collect the ticket with her children in a trust. Right off the bat she is paing 48%+ in taxes. No reason to pay another 45% with a death tax in just a few years.
A few years? She's only 53.
I think she was working a union job. She's been there 32 years, so she's got a decent pension, too. Her husband was killed by a hit and run a couple years ago.
Mavis Wancyzk said buying a Powerball ticket “was just a chance I had to take.”
The 53-year-old (now former) hospital worker purchased three tickets at Pride Station & Store in Chicopee. Two were computer-generated quick picks. On the other, Wancyzk chose the numbers — and that decision made the $758.7 million difference.
At a Thursday afternoon press conference, Wancyzk explained why she chose the winning numbers, 6, 7, 16, 23, and 26, with the Powerball number 4:
My numbers were kind of basically random, like maybe with our birthdays, maybe one from here, one from there. I just — whatever could work. And you know, there’s a thing between me and my mom and my stepfather and I have a friend, we all go out to dinner on Friday night and we all play Keno and our number is four. So I just happened to choose, and it worked to my advantage.
And boys..............she's single! Not a bad looker, either.
Except she chews gum like a cow chews its cud. I kept waiting for her to let it spit out while she was talking, but she seemed fairly adept at keeping it in! Somebody should have told her to spit it out before the news conference.
She definitely needs someone to help keep her out of the limelight.
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