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For the first time in U.S. lottery history, an estimated jackpot has reached half-a-billion dollars.
Yes, $500,000,000.
The top prize was boosted late this morning, obliterating all previous records.
The cash payout is now a staggering $359 million.
Welcome to jackpot freak-out.
Even major media outlets like Good Morning America were going gaga early today over Mega Millions' annuity rolling over to $476 million, blowing away the old mark of $390 million, set by the game in March 2007.
Now the jackpot is even bigger.
The annuity has now jumped $144 million since Tuesday, crushing the $115 million rise also witnessed in March 2007.
The cash jackpot clobbered its own record, set Monday, by $100 million. The $359 million leaves the next biggest far back in the dust, the $240 million reached by Mega Millions in January last year.
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Originally posted by benrl
first this yacht
Strand Craft 122 super car yacht
than an island to dock it, and that would be all I needed.
Originally posted by AshleyD
reply to post by Talltexxxan
First things first: Change my name, move away, and go into hiding.
With a record breaking jackpot that big, you'd be famous and have every Tom, Dick, and Harry following you around to find something to sue over. Or 'tripping' on your lawn, 'hurting themselves.' Or causing a wreck that would appear to be your fault, etc. Or, worse- kidnapping your kids, kidnapping you, blackmailing, etc.
So I'd grab my family and haul butt away as quickly as possible. Sad but true.
Originally posted by Talltexxxan
reply to post by rangersdad
Well played
But after you showed her enough money to impress her what are you gonna do with the other 499,999, 980 bucks?
Gotta love JLH
Originally posted by rangersdad
reply to post by Talltexxxan
Well I would take the cash value
and then ask out Jennifer Love Hewitt
Originally posted by AwakeinNM
Originally posted by rangersdad
reply to post by Talltexxxan
Well I would take the cash value
and then ask out Jennifer Love Hewitt
Hey, you stole my idea. You like the new issue of Maxim also?
Could anyone even spend the cash payout? I think I'd convert it out of dollars as soon as possible, move it offshore and put it into something tangible - metals, real estate. I'd buy ONE Ferrari 458 Italia as my splurge. Definitely a small jet as well so I wouldn't have to go through TSA any more, and make that available to family and friends when they NEED it. I see that as more of a necessity.
Then I'd give away a lot of it to various organizations of my choosing, including several churches (eat it, atheists). I'd pass on anyone who came to me with their hand out.
It''s nice to daydream, but really, you have a better chance of being eaten by a bear and sh*t off a cliff than winning that thing. Imagine all the bad karma you'd be owed if you DID win. Yipes!
edit on 28-3-2012 by AwakeinNM because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Talltexxxan
Originally posted by benrl
first this yacht
Strand Craft 122 super car yacht
than an island to dock it, and that would be all I needed.
I think I need to go get a towel after seeing that yacht!!
That thing is a masterpiece!!!