[Squantos]

Andrew "Jack" Whittaker, who owns three local construction companies, looked through his list of PowerBall lottery tickets Christmas night, but didn’t check them twice. When he did the next day, he discovered the winning ticket was sold at the station where he purchased 115 tickets just three days before.

The night of the PowerBall jackpot drawing, Whittaker said he got the wrong numbers from television. He went to bed Christmas night thinking he had matched only four of the five numbers, plus the PowerBall.

A spokeswoman with WSAZ-TV in Huntington said the station accidentally listed 11 instead of 16 in the series of six numbers. The jackpot numbers were: 5-14-16-29-53 and the PowerBall was 7.

The mistake almost cost Whittaker millions.

"I saw the next morning that the ticket had been sold at the station I buy biscuits and gas from every morning," he said. "I thought that the odds of me hitting five numbers and someone else hitting all six on tickets from the same place were astronomical. So I told my wife we should check it again."

A second look proved his intuition right.

Good thing he didn't toss that ticket........Stay Safe Katt !!

[rhema]

Will this event lead to a spate of churches forming committees to make "strategic, high-yield investments" for their respective churches' futures?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

"The very first thing I'm going to do is go home and make out three checks to three pastors," Mr. Whittaker said. Those checks, a tithe to the Church of God, will total $17 million.

He just ruined three churches, which were unprepared to have that kind of inflow of cash. Regular giving will drop off from everyone else, and they'll probably undertake grandiose expansion schemes that they won't be able to sustain.

[E.G.C.]

Here are my thoguths on this subject.

First off congradulations to the latest Powerball winner from West Virginia. I'm sure that money will do an awful lot of good.

Now, I want to pose a hypothecial question to all freepers out there. Let's just suppose the powerball winner was a diehard conservative Republican. A Rush Limbaugh dittohead if you will and when asked what he is going to do with the money he states that's he going to donate a portion of it to conservative causes like the Media Research Center, Free Republic, what have you and he talks about issues in the style of Rush Limbaugh.

If the Powerball winner was someone like that, How do you think the media would handle this story? Would they demand an inquiry to see if it was rigged or something? Given the media's softball treatment of the Democrats and liberal and progressive causes versus their blatant and deliberate mistreatment of christians and conservatives, I would be a bit dubious about how they would handle it.

If I myself were a Powerball winner I don't think I would be quite as generous to the news media as that fella was.
Regards.

[Wolfie]

What of the poor bastard(s) who thought they won because of the TV error? How much do ya think they'll sue for?

[TLBSHOW]

"The very first thing I'm going to do is go home and make out three checks to three pastors," Mr. Whittaker said. Those checks, a tithe to the Church of God, will total $17 million.


BUMP

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Here's an item I wrote to a pump and dumper pushing stock in a company that is losing huge sums of money. At least I believe in investing in a company that is MAKING money. The odds are a lot better. As a matter of fact, they're much better than gambling OR the lottery. However, you have to wait much longer and people don't want to do that.

Ode to CPNER49er

Congratulations you made ignore,
your hype and trivia were such a bore.
You made me sick, not one more word,
Everything you write is totally absurd.

You lie, cheat, deceive and steal,
making claims on some good deal.
Now if you want to truly profit,
I'll tell you how if you'll only stop it.

You must repent, confess your sin,
Arrange your account and buy CPN.
Hold it long and watch it not,
and within one year you'll have a lot.

If my words don't console you,
and the lines won't bring relief,
then what I've said, it must be true...
that CPN49er is a stupid thief.

P.S. The same goes for anyone hyping something at which there is almost no hope of return.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Mat 19:24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is the first thing that's ever been given to me," he said.

Such as his food, clothing and shelter when he was a toddler. Or more importantly if he IS a Christian... salvation!

[Exit148]

When I first read that a wealthy man won this lottery, I was ticked off. We all want to hear of a poor, hardworking family who strives to make a living hit the big time. BUT -this man is spreading his new wealth around. He's going to rehire those who were let-off, expand his business - therefore putting more people to work. He understands money enough not to docrazy things. I'm now glad that Whittaker (sp?) won.

However---- What I would really like to see is the end of these huge lottery $$$ where only 1, 2, or a few people hit the jackpot. If the lottery is worth 10 million, why not have 10 winners of a million apiece? I think more people would play the game. As the amount increases, more winners. An added bonus would be that after you paid the taxes, you wouldn't have relatives come out of the woodwork trying to pal up to you.

[tuna_battle]

" Andrew Jackson Whittaker Jr. thanks God that he picked the six numbers that won him the $314.9 million Christmas Day Powerball jackpot"

It was probably an "auto lotto" -- I doubt he picked his own numbers.

[ricpic]

I just saw a picture of this guy. He's dressed all in black and he's wearing a red tie. He may be a great guy, but I'd give him a wide berth.