March 12, 2007

Rumor: Mega Millions Jackpot Winners From Lakewood, NJ

The NY Times, and everyone else, is wondering who is the Mega Millions jackpot winner from New Jersey. The holder of the winning ticket sold in Woodbine, NJ is entitled to about half of the record $390 million jackpot from last Tuesday's drawing; the other jackpot winner, a truck driver from Georgia, took the cash payout option and will receive $116.5 million.

Presence has received a tip that the New Jersey jackpot winners are a group of Orthodox Jews from Lakewood, NJ. No further information is available, we're working on contacting our primary sources, who are in a unique position to confirm or disconfirm this rumor (they are very reliable). At this time, we're treating this as a likely, but unconfirmed, rumor. If it turns out to be true, you heard it here first. If it turns out not to be true, we apologize for your lost time.

Although Woodbine, NJ, where the winning ticket was sold, is about 75 miles from Lakewood, the area had a large Jewish population in '70s, and could be frequented by Lakewood residents scouting out or managing real estate investments.

Posted by Greg at March 12, 2007 11:00 AM in | TrackBack
Comments

Wouldn't that cause some cognitive dissonance if they were forced to actually pay taxes? OK, that wasn't nice.

Posted by: AlanLaz at March 12, 2007 6:45 AM

Alright, now they can have 12 MORE kids, although it wasn't like anything stopped them before.

Posted by: aishel at March 12, 2007 7:43 AM

Whoa Whoa Whoa people.
Save the anti -Semitism for the KKK blog, all right?
Besides, some of my favorite forefathers had 12 kids.
Reminds me of the brocho my friend got from Rav Sheinberg 'You should be zoche to raise yud beis (12) Shevatim'.
He came home and excitedly told his wife, who responded :
'Oh yeah? And who are your three other wives going to be...?'

Posted by: Chareidi Fanatic at March 12, 2007 8:24 AM

There have been always been rumors in the frum community that a frum person won the lottery. I remember a large jackpot where "everyone" said that the winner was a 19 year old girl from a pupa chasidic familly who was engaged. People even said they knew someone who knew the girl. Then we heard she broke the engagement ovet the money and thats why she hadn't come forwrd. Finally I heard on the radio "the winner of the jackpot is Mr Jose Rodrigeiz from the Bronx"

Posted by: mrmoose at March 12, 2007 8:58 AM

And each guy from the group who bought the winning ticket is now being marketed by shadchanim as "the best guy in Lakewood".

Posted by: Dr. E at March 12, 2007 9:40 AM

i heard this rumor over shabbos as well.

Posted by: nyfunnyman at March 12, 2007 10:35 AM

Hey Greg...

Contact me when you get a chance... Didn't we go to camp together years ago?!

Posted by: Laundro at March 12, 2007 10:49 AM

reminds me of my favorite five towns joke ever. Frum guy from Lawrence wins 5,000,000 in the lottery and the lottery people ask him what is he going to do with it? He says "I'm going to pay my debts". So the Lottery guy says "what about the rest" the reply is "the rest they just are going to have to wait"

Posted by: mrmoose at March 12, 2007 12:02 PM

Whoever the winner is, he's going to have every single meshulach and shnorrer in the entire world at his door.

Posted by: goodgrief at March 13, 2007 12:04 AM