Friends share Powerball jackpot win, keeping 1992 promise

[Anonymous No.20638198]

(https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/friends-share-powerball-jackpot-win-keeping-1992-promise-71944724))

>A western Wisconsin man will share his millions in lottery winnings with a longtime friend because of a promise they made to each other nearly three decades ago.

Friends Tom Cook and Joseph Feeney shook hands in 1992 and promised that if either one of them ever won the Powerball jackpot, they would split the money. That promise came to fruition last month when Cook bought the winning ticket for a $22 million jackpot at Synergy Coop in Menomonie.

When Cook called to give his friend the good news, Feeney couldn't quite believe it.
>“He called me, and I said, ‘are you jerking my bobber?’” said Feeney, an avid fisherman.

Cook retired after hitting the jackpot while Feeney was already retired. Neither has any extravagant plans for the winnings but are looking forward to enjoying more family time.
>“We can pursue what we feel comfortable with. I can’t think of a better way to retire,” Cook said. The pair said they're looking forward to some traveling.

The men chose the cash option of about $16.7 million, leaving each with nearly $5.7 million after taxes are paid. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in about 292 million.

[Anonymous No.20638238]

>>20638198
why the fuck is it always old people

[Anonymous No.20638239]

>>20638198
>The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in about 292 million.
I love how literally every news article about someone winning the lottery ends with this because you can just feel the amount of jealous seethe from the person who wrote it.

[Anonymous No.20638241]

>are you jerking my bobber?

[Anonymous No.20638250]

>>20638198
i dont care faggot

[Anonymous No.20638338]

>>20638198
Is this how they pay deep state actors, assassins, crisis actors, etc...?

[Anonymous No.20638360]

>>20638238
This
Power balls a fucking scam lol

[Anonymous No.20638370]

He was a good friend

[Anonymous No.20638373]

>>20638198
heart warming

[Anonymous No.20638382]

>>20638241
this

[Anonymous No.20638393]

>>20638238
Lottery companies are money laundering schemes and they get actors to pretend to win.

[Anonymous No.20638456]

>>20638241
well are you anon?

[Anonymous No.20638481]

>>20638393
This guys gets it!
If you only knew how deep the rabbit hole really goes...

[Anonymous No.20638519]

>>20638238
A guy dressed as Darth Vader won a $95 million lottery.

[Anonymous No.20638537]

>>20638239
It's not seethe dipshit. It's a common question. "What are the odds of winning?"

[Anonymous No.20638556]

>>20638519
Oh cool some reddit faggot has fuck you money. Maybe hell pump nano or bat

[Anonymous No.20638567]

>>20638198
>$22 million prize
>cash option of about $16.7 million
>leaving each with nearly $5.7 million after taxes are paid

Ignoring the $5.3 million tax
Why does the cash option even have it's own separate $5.3 million deduction?

Do they get taxed twice or something?

[Anonymous No.20638598]

>>20638393
Probably this. The non jack pot wins are legit though

[Anonymous No.20638613]

>>20638393
>>20638481
The lottery only exists to catch time travellers. They only choose numbers that nobody has picked. If somebody does choose the correct numbers, they are quickly detained by the feds. Like another anon said, the winners you see on TV are actors.

[Anonymous No.20638638]

>>20638556
imagine holding baño or bat in 2020

Im gonna puke

[Anonymous No.20638662]

>>20638567
Because the full prize is paid out as annuities, so the present worth of that same money is actually less.

[Anonymous No.20638674]

>>20638613
Based and schizopilled

[Anonymous No.20638732]

>>20638537
The odds are literally 1 in 2
You either win or you do not

[Anonymous No.20638812]

>>20638732
based retard

[Anonymous No.20638969]

>>20638238
lol i was just thinking this. the money always goes to people too old to do anything with it

[Anonymous No.20639082]

>>20638238
>why the fuck is it always old people
I'm pretty sure old people buy a lot more lottery tickets than young people.

[Anonymous No.20639112]

>>20638238
Because young people only buy scratch tickets for the instant gratification and higher odds of winning something

[Anonymous No.20639140]

>>20638198
Good for them and good on him keeping to his promise.

>>20638238
Probably cause they're likely the only ones buying them. I'd much rather risk it on the stock market...turned 4 figures into a lot only to lose most of it trying to get rich quicker. At least I made my initial loss from a year ago back, plus more on top.

>>20638393
Possible I wouldn't put it past the government. Pic related.

>>20638567
Idk feels like they take a lot though.

>>20638613
I can confirm this, been bagholding chainlink since 2020 and came back to win the lotto only to get warned by another time traveller to watch out. So instead I went back a bit and just looked at future stock prices before going all in on one option for 100x return by eoy.

[Anonymous No.20639254]

>>20638613
That is retarded. Time travelers aren’t going to play the fucking lottery after the first one gets caught, lmao. If you can time travel you have infinite way to make near infinite money, you don’t need the lottery.

[Anonymous No.20639423]

>>20638613
time travelers would know it's a honeypot anon

[Anonymous No.20640324]

>>20638198
>22 mil becomes 5.7
wtf

[Anonymous No.20640377]

>>20638198
>taxes on lottery wins
Tell me more about that free country of yours.

[Anonymous No.20640381]

>>20638393

I'm going to research these two guys real quick and I swear to God if I find out they are Freemasons I'm going to fucking lose it REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Honestly though the guy center right in the picture looks fucked in the head. Those eyes man those eyes

[Anonymous No.20640424]

>>20640324
Oh say can you see

[Anonymous No.20640437]

>>20638732
this is the funniest thing i've read in a longass time LMAO

[Anonymous No.20640547]

I stopped playing when I found out Jeffrey Epstein won the lottery...twice.

[Anonymous No.20640577]

>>20638241

[Anonymous No.20640578]

>>20638393
I don’t think they need to go that far, the rules for claiming a major jackpot pretty much guarantee they always make money. No conspiracy really needed desu but I’m sure they’ve faked winners before

[Anonymous No.20640623]

>>20640437
wait, he's not wrong right? there's no other scenario

[Anonymous No.20640638]

>are you jerking my bobber

[Anonymous No.20640643]

This is heartwarming and all but I bet their kids are fucking seething right now. Imagine your parents giving away half the soon-to-be-your millions to some faggy neighbours.
My mum made a promise to God that she would give half of any lottery wins to the Catholic church, something which she has actually upheld to this day. She must have given them hundreds over the last 30 years.
I don't mind the charity, it's the fucking recipient that bothers me. Give it to the poor whites, not the rich-ass Catholic church.

[Anonymous No.20640694]

>>20639112
/biz/ would buy $5.7m of scratch tickets to “reinvest” the money

[Anonymous No.20640745]

>>20638238
U wot m8?

[Anonymous No.20640806]

>>20638613
Anything else I should avoid doing when I get my time machine?

[Anonymous No.20640917]

>>20638239
I love how people still spend their money on lotteries even after repeatedly told how low the odds are.

[Anonymous No.20641122]

>>20640917
they are buying dreams/hope. They aren't investing. They all know it's a shit investment, but it's still worth it to them because the potential payout of several millions is huge, while the expected loss of whatever the ticket costs is pocket change.

[Anonymous No.20641148]

>>20640745
yolo

[Anonymous No.20641178]

>>20640623
for your sake, i really hope you're kidding
yes, there are only two "scenarios"
but that is not what we mean by "odds"
do you really think each outcome has an equal chance of occurring?

[Anonymous No.20641227]

>>20641178
>>20640623

[Anonymous No.20641267]

>>20640745
Based.

[Anonymous No.20641980]

>>20640643

you're mom's the useful idiot of a sex-trafficking ring. how does it feel anon

[Anonymous No.20642043]

>>20641227
durr I can use inspect element too

[Anonymous No.20642111]

>>20638613
thats honestly retarded you could literally just write down good investments and certain dates

[Anonymous No.20642149]

>>20641227
damn Epstein got mad luck

[Anonymous No.20642939]

>>20638613
>be me
>be time traveller
>can travel to 2009 and mine thousands of BTC for peanuts. Store in an anonymous and descentralized way. Then travel to 2017. Cash out
>hur durr lottery numbers

[Anonymous No.20643012]

>>20638370
for you

[Anonymous No.20643061]

>>20641122
This. Playing the lottery gives me at least a glimmer of hope, so i can day dream of what im going to do if i make it. I dont play PB though, the odds are too shit.

[Anonymous No.20643062]

>>20638238
>>20638969
Because they've been playing longer then younger demographics and thus have a much higher chance to win? Pretty straight forward

[Anonymous No.20643155]

>>20638198
>The men chose the cash option of about $16.7 million, leaving each with nearly $5.7 million after taxes are paid.

[Anonymous No.20643268]

>>20638613
>They only choose numbers that nobody has picked
>If somebody does choose the correct numbers
How are they gonna know who is the time traveler if they only choose numbers that haven't been picked, you retard? If the time traveler picks something the winning numbers are gonna get changed and he's not going to win.

[Anonymous No.20643542]

>>20638238
because only retards play the lotto and old people are retarded