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Florida Powerball Winner, 84, Claims $590-Million Prize
ABC ^ | 06-05-2013 | Staff

Posted on 06/05/2013 12:34:44 PM PDT by Red Badger

Gloria C. Mackenzie held the most lucrative winning lottery ticket in American history.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: lottery; millionaires; powerball
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To: Lazamataz

Who are you kidding...you’d hit it.


21 posted on 06/05/2013 12:45:17 PM PDT by MWestMom (Psalms 109:8)
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To: RummyChick
If I was Gloria, I would have them review the surveillance cameras to help find the woman. Give her a few million as a thank you for being so considerate.
22 posted on 06/05/2013 12:45:45 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: Red Badger

I want to see her picture. It is important to know what my future wife looks like.


23 posted on 06/05/2013 12:46:00 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: Red Badger

Wonderful. She’ll have $590 million to spend for every year she has left.

< just kidding folks >


24 posted on 06/05/2013 12:46:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were Iviolated...)
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To: 11th Commandment

I need to meet her handsome son :)


25 posted on 06/05/2013 12:47:09 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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To: Lazamataz

” This thread is useless without pictures.”

Of the 370 million ?


26 posted on 06/05/2013 12:48:22 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Jane Long

The old ABC Wide World of Sports them with words “the agony of defeat” by Jim Mckay come to mind of the person who let her cut.


27 posted on 06/05/2013 12:48:44 PM PDT by moviefan8
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To: ClearCase_guy

“She’ll burn thru the cash in a few years living the fast life...”

I hope so. And start gifting the max to her kids and loved ones. And I hope she has a bunch of charities that she can give to. And I hope she has many years to enjoy it all. If not, the gov’t is going to take half when she dies anyway.


28 posted on 06/05/2013 12:49:32 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: Red Badger

Ms. McKinsie (or whatever it’s spelled liked) I just want you to know “I YUB YOU!!!” I’ll spend it frugally.


29 posted on 06/05/2013 12:50:48 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: DoughtyOne

In all candor, it must piss her off to win a third of a billion at 84 : )


30 posted on 06/05/2013 12:53:15 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Red Badger

I just found out I’m her son.


31 posted on 06/05/2013 12:54:18 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: Red Badger

First - I’ll admit it - I’m a bit jealous. Of course I never play the lottery so I guess I can’t complain!

But - the word “lucrative” doesn’t seem to be the right term for somebody winning a game of chance. I always viewed it in terms of work and investments. Of course I suppose the $1 ticket can be viewed as an “investment”, so I guess it is a “profit”.

“Lucrative: producing a profit; profitable; remunerative”

Lord knows the IRS views it as a profit!


32 posted on 06/05/2013 12:55:48 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: Red Badger

$590 million prize, huh?

That’s enough for eight IRS dance parties and $190 million left over for a Paris vacation for Moochelle.


33 posted on 06/05/2013 12:56:35 PM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: RummyChick; Lazamataz

See post #12.........


34 posted on 06/05/2013 12:56:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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To: Red Badger
Dear Mrs. Mackenzie,

I have 15,000,000.00 (fifteen million) U.S. Dollars and I want you to assist me in distributing the money to charity organizations.
I agree to reward you with part of the money for your assistance, kindness and participation in this Godly project.
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as unserious could come into your mind but please consider it a divine wish and accept it with a deep sense of humility.

I am Mr Peter Attah and I am a 55 years old man. I am a South African living in the Garden City of Port Harcourt - Nigeria.
I was the President/CEO of TOMOBA OIL LIMITED - an oil servicing comapny in Port Harcourt. I was also married with two children.
My wife and two children died in a car accident six years ago. Before this happened my business and concern for making money was all I was living for and I never really cared about other people.

But since the loss of my family, I have found a new desire to assist the helpless. I have been helping orphans in orphanages/motherless homes.
I have donated some money to orphans in Sudan, Ethiopia, Cameroon,Spain,Austria,Germany and some Asian countries.

I WILL ONLY NEED YOUR BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.....

35 posted on 06/05/2013 12:57:22 PM PDT by red-dawg
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To: RummyChick

...another lottery ticket buyer was very kind enough to let me go ahead of her.

************

That isn’t like the other person would have gotten the ticket if they were a quick pick which we don’t know. It is a millisecond transaction so timing would have had to been exactly the same for those numbers to have shown up had the other person kept their place in line.


36 posted on 06/05/2013 12:58:40 PM PDT by deport
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To: RummyChick

It will be a life-altering experience for the winner and, not necessarily, a happy one.


37 posted on 06/05/2013 12:59:23 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I do not say whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Well, it’s better than never winning it at all I guess.

LOL


38 posted on 06/05/2013 1:03:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were Iviolated...)
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To: Lazamataz

It is important to know what my future wife looks like.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We know you better than that. It’s not important al all. All that is important is that she has a pulse.

Then you can take care of the rest.

(lol)


39 posted on 06/05/2013 1:13:07 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: deport

Agreed. It’s not like the old worn out TV plot of a store’s millionth customer where the person somehow gets shafted by not being the next in line due to various circumstances for the prize. I think it did happen once in real life.


40 posted on 06/05/2013 1:19:27 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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