Posted on 10/23/2018 10:45:57 PM PDT by snarkytart
FOX Carolina)- The South Carolina Education Lottery website is reporting a winning MegaMillions ticket in the state.
According to their website, one MegaMillions jackpot-winning ticket was purchased in South Carolina for the drawing on Oct. 23.
The jackpot is up to an estimated $1.6 billion.
The winning numbers are: 05-28-62-65-70, Mega Ball: 5, Megaplier: 3.
We have reached out to SC Education Lottery officials for confirmation of the jackpot winner.
Mega Millions tickets are sold in 44 states across the U.S.
This is a developing story.
Stay with FOX Carolina for the latest.
If this was a FReeper, hit me up! lol
Poor bastard
PowerBall jackpot still up for grabs.
Yeah, but if you cash out, you’re only going to end up with around $600 million after taxes.
You got it. Bought 10 tickets when visiting there this week but afraid to check the numbers til no one comes forward tomorrow.
Tickets still incubating in my flight bag.
Yea only 600 million. haha!
Really? Well good luck.
On behalf of everyone else who played: DAMMIT!
Yeah, he will be broke in a couple of years.
You know it
That’s way more than most rock stars and sports dudes.
Or worse. From the nets:
Mack Metcalf and Virginia Merida
A couple who won a $34 million jackpot in Kentucky in 2000 ended up living separate lives in separate mansions before their deaths.
Mack Metcalf and estranged-wife Virginia Merida split the jackpot but divorced in 2001. The Sun Sentinel reported that he bought a Mount Vernon-type mansion in Kentucky and she bought one near the Ohio River. He bought horses and she brought home stray cats, the paper reported.
He died of complications from alcoholism in 2003 at age 45, the paper reported. Later that same year, Merida’s partially decomposed body was found in her bed. There was no sign of foul play, officials said.
Could be an illegal.
Someone is going to be very happy if they aren’t already.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are miserable.
Ha! What luck!
The cash option for the 1.6 billion dollar lottery as written on my ticket is $904,900,000.
Whoever the winner is, should send a thank you note to President Trump. The Trump tax cut just saved him over 23 million dollars on the $900 million dollar cash option.
Only?
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