A guy who won $640mill last night was already a millionare

[Elvinna]

As I understand that guy also bought ONE ticket???

Some people are so lucky..... now he has to be the "normal" person and pay taxes like others do.
Looks like he had law run-ins due to not paying taxes on his stock market earnings.

http://www.iywib.com/mega_millions_lottery_winner.php

[Ninjapaws]

"This will help me fix up one of my estates in the Cayman Islands that I've kind of let go in recent years. I've also been thinking about buying a couple more Gulfstream G550 jets, so I think I'll go ahead and do that now." Paul goes on to say, "I'm actually kind of bummed about winning because I know there is really no way around paying the full amount of taxes that I'll owe on this. I guess for a moment or so I'll have to join the 'regulars' and pay my fair share. Maybe when I'm done paying all those taxes I'll go down to a local bar and have a domestic beer with the common folk there, just to get a quick taste of what that's like," Horner laughs. "To be honest, most of this money will probably end up going to campaign contributions for Rick Santorum."

makes ninja mad...

[Pretolkos]

I think you're being trolled, and maybe stumbled across a fake news site.

[Elvinna]

Don't think it's a fake site nor link. The link was posted on CNN.com

[Nevergreen]

So many people starting a day early now!

[Ninjapaws]

ya elvinna its a trolling website....

the real mega millions lottery "winner" from Maryland has not claimed it yet. but says she "misplaced" her ticket.
Click Here

[Zerstoerer]

Yeah when I first saw the link to this site, I thought it was just a tabloid style repost site, but when I started to read it, I realized it's more of a The Onion satire thing. They pieces of a real story and interject ludicrous information into it. Think about it - a lottery official saying "He's a dick"? That's not going to happen with all the corporate lawyers around. Then all the Supertroopers videos and references further down the site.

BTW, if you go to the homepage of iywib.com now they address the fake press release:
"Hello friends!

The other day I wrote a press release about a guy named Paul Horner winning the Mega Millions jackpot. I thought it would be funny if the winner of the $640 million was already the wealthiest guy in his state and was also a total douchebag. I figured there would be a lot of angry people after the drawing, so what better way to pour salt on the wound than with a story like this one. I Photoshopped a winning ticket and wrote about him being from Maryland after the first winner was announced being from there. Anyway when I wrote this at 3am on Saturday I thought it was pretty funny, but I didn't know that less than 24 hours later the page would be viewed over 185,000 times. Seriously, this article was viewed 185,000 times by over 165,000 people yesterday ha. People started debating god and satan, if the story was real or not, what they would do with the money, and how much they hated Paul