Now, before you start doing the calculations of the odds of siblings both winning the Powerball on the same day, you might want to see the picture after the jump—>
Now calculate the odds of James Stocklas not being murdered by his brother Bob.
In the story James says he plans on sharing his fortune, equally, with two other “friends.”
Hey Bob, $7 will buy you an adequate ball-pean hammer.
Get the hell out of PA! That damn Governor Wolf will take it all if you let him. 🙁
If I were Bob, I’d keep that $7 check and frame it, as a momento. Let his brother cash the big check. Besides, after the gov’t takes their share, $7 will be more a buck fifty.
Not blaming you Fur but journalism is dead.
Did the reporter not bother to inquire if his brother would get a share?
So many stories I read these days it’s like the writer is a simple idiot.
Agreed Slyvia, old James should have immediately renounced his Pennsylvania citizenship.
They get a giant cut for fuck-all.
Florida has no State income tax.
$7 won’t be taxed. Payouts $500 and less are cashed on the spot, any thing more the ticket gets verified at location and mailed to the state lotto with winner’s info written on the ticket. At least that’s how it worked when I sold tickets at a gas station in the 90’s.
That said, it sure would be nice to be able to pick a bag of chips out of the gas station and not take 15 minutes while jackwads fill the whole counter with lotto requests. A small percentage of sales (1.5% I think it is?) goes to the gas station, more if they win, but $2.99 bag of chips brings in 40% and here I am waiting. Mostly this is what made me stop smoking, the lotto asses held me up every damn day when I just wanted a pack of smokes. IMHO, lotto addicts are worse than smokers and big soda drinkers.
The odds, as I calculate them, are better than Rubio getting the nomination.
The most extremely fucked up depressing thing about this is that 291 MILLION BECOMES 120 MILLION AFTER TAXES!
Yeah Bernie, the rich don’t pay their “fair share”
Fuck you Bernie!
Fuck you Hillary!
Fuck you Bernie!
Fuck you Hillary!
Eternal, the government requires a Form 1099 if the winnings top $600.
That is why a lot of secondary pots don’t eclipse $600.
Of course you are supposed to report ANY winnings.
That in itself means the assholes don’t GAF if you lose but they damn well have their greedy government hands out if you gain a goddamn dime!
I want to blow up this bullshit system SO bad!
Almost Clintonian odds.
Homeric!
I’ll bet Bob is a Lot Nicer to James
Do you know if they have a long lost relative?
Here is something for those fellow numerologists to ponder:
Odds of winning the jackpot:
1 in 292,201,338
He “won” $291,400,000
Face it, you only hear the sentient important shit on iotwreports.
This is LocoBlancoSaltine reporting.
Back to you Fur…
My name is James Bobby Stoklas and I was orphaned/adopted after that tragic boating accident near where the Edmund Fitzgerald went down….Hello, Cuz….
It probably cost them $45 just to print Bob’s check. They screwed him, he could have had $52 if they had just given him the cash!
Uncle James! I finally found you! Have I told you how much I love you?
I’ll wager both those two “friends”, with whom James will be sharing the jackpot, both wear 7″ platform heels and gyrate on a chrome pole at the local Boobies & Beer Bar.
The odds are roughly the same as Scalia’s death being due to “natural causes”.