$100,000 ? Has any human being ever had so much money? They're set for life.
Champagne wishes and caviar dreams!
Posted on 10/08/2004 10:54:37 AM PDT by TexKat
LOUISVILLE, KY. - In July 2003, Amanda Young said goodbye to her father as he left for Iraq to work for a contractor and help the family out of debt. Now Charles Craig Young is heading home, since the family won $100,000 Wednesday night playing Powerball.
They matched five numbers, 5-6-19-44-50, but missed on the Powerball, 28.
"We're just glad he can finally come home," said Amanda Young, of Flatwood. "We're just relieved to get him out of there."
Judy and Amanda Young got the news Wednesday night and realized the implications immediately for her father, Amanda Young said.
"It was probably 10 or 15 minutes of screaming," she said.
A short time later, Charles Craig Young called from Iraq and got the news.
"He really didn't believe us at first," Amanda Young said.
Her father supervises maintenance crews in the heavily fortified Green Zone of Baghdad for Iraqi dignitaries. He works for private contractor KBR, Houston-based Halliburton's engineering and construction subsidiary. He was originally due back in August, but stayed to make extra money.
"They were kind of undecided when he was going to come home," Amanda Young said. "We kind of solved that problem."
Not all the money will go toward debt, Judy Young said. Her husband has one request when he gets back to Kentucky — he wants a new tractor.
Judy Young e-mailed the supervisor at the Amazon.com warehouse in Huntington, W.Va., where she works as a senior customer service associate. The message said she wouldn't be at work Thursday.
"I think he'll be OK with it, since I said I would do something special for the whole team next week," she said.
$100,000 ? Has any human being ever had so much money? They're set for life.
Ping.
Watch them pee it away in about three months.
The cost of living is very low in Low-a-vull.
That's why they call it Low-a-vull.
Do they realize what they will pay in taxes? They won't make it past Christmas. Hope he has a job lined up for January.
Well, it would probably be enough for me to take a nice 3-month vacation and make some investments.
Cut 'em some slack. Instead of a new pick-em-up truck and a steam-clean of the outside of the double-wide, they get their father back from that hell-hole alive and in one piece. I can imagine a whole lot worse uses for the money.
$100,000 ? Has any human being ever had so much money? They're set for life.
Champagne wishes and caviar dreams!
Eggs, was that really necessary?
LOL!
The dude worked in Iraq for a year. It isn't exactly like he doesn't understand how hard it can be to make a buck.
And I admit that I'd think about leaving Iraq for $100k.
But, heck, I'dprobably just piss it away before I got out of Dubai.
Sammy Sosa left early during the last game of the season. The Cubs management decided to fine him his salary for one game - $86,000!
Is that your 'I've-got-your-half-of-the-winning-lotto-ticket-in-hand' ping?
Some of the posts on this thread are really goofy. The man wasn't a hostage or slave labor in Iraq. He's a gainfully employed civilian contractor. My father has a similar job. He goes voluntarily and knows what he's walking into.
I don't think they had retirement in mind. The guy was simply working in Iraq to make money to pay off debt. The $75,000 they'll have after taxes accomplishes that. Bring dad home. Why the wisecrack?
Well, sounds like they'll be right back in debt as soon as it is spent.
Great minds.....
Send me some money and I'll play the lotto for ya while you are away. :)
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