RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-23-10 11:51 AM
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$258M Powerball Winner: "Holy Moses!" - Convenience Store Clerk
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A Missouri man who won a $258 million Powerball jackpot and plans to use some of the money to pay bills and take his children to Disney World says he hasn't decided yet if he'll quit his minimum wage job at the convenience store where he bought the winning ticket.
"You know, you never know," Chris Shaw told "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith Friday. "Everybody always says. I wouldn't,' or 'I would.' There's just so many things right now that run through your head, it's just like, you know - yesterday, if you would have asked me what I would have done with this kind of money, or two days ago, before I won it, I could have given a you million things. Now, I don't have any idea. I'm just flabbergasted!"
Shaw - a 29-year-old tattooed father of three who was raised by his grandparents in rural southern Missouri - came forward Thursday as the winner of the 10th-largest Powerball jackpot ever. Shaw said he had just $28.96 in his bank account and recently bought a 1998 Ford Ranger from a friend who agreed to let him pay off the $1,000 price $100 at a time. Now, he said, he no longer has to worry about how he'll pay his friend - or his utility bills.
"We didn't come from money. For us, it's just going to be a huge relief to know I'm going to be able to pay my electric bill, my gas bill," Shaw told the Associated Press. "It's like a weight lifted. I had bills at home I didn't know how they were going to be paid."
Shaw said he bought the $5 ticket Wednesday at the Break Time convenience store where he works in Marshall, a central Missouri town about 80 miles east of Kansas City. He accepted his ceremonial check at the Missouri Lottery headquarters in Jefferson City wearing a tan and red plaid shirt, a red hat and a huge grin - minus two front teeth he says he lost because he didn't take care of them but can now afford to have replaced.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/23/earlyshow/mai...
ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-23-10 11:52 AM
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2. Too Cool! Now hire an excellent Financial Lawyer and keep away from extended relatives. eom
eyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-23-10 12:07 PM
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10. Congratulations and good luck
He'll need it.
Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Apr-23-10 09:22 PM
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53. I hope he spends and invests it wisely. Lucky dog!!
I say Congratulations and good for him, as well.
If this person had gone to school, studied hard, got out of school and started his own business, then worked hard at that business, employed other people, made a some other people wealthy as he grew his business, put in long hours, made good decisions and earned that amount of money, what would DU be saying about him?
Good for him? Spend it well? be careful to keep it away from nasty relatives?
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