Lottery Syndicate Of 14 Factory Workers Take Home A Staggering $40 Million Australian Powerball Jackpot
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A news agency like the one in Campbelltown, New South Wales where the syndicate bought their tickets.
Fourteen factory workers from Western Sydney awoke last Friday to discover that they had become multi-millionaires in the $40,000,000 Powerball draw.
This notice on the window of the Campbelltown store says it all for the winners.
The work colleagues had purchased a PowerHit 20 syndicate ticket which scooped the complete jackpot.
The syndicate, who made a last minute decision to purchase a ticket for the draw last Thursday night, won prizes in multiple divisions, bringing the blue collar workers a total of $40,445,165.25,
Each of the workers took home approximately $2.9 million each. The out-of-the-blue ticket was purchased from a local news agency in Campbelltown, New South Wales.
The syndicate leader told lotto officials that the group was “so excited!” He added that some of the workers were “shaking”, while others had “goose bumps”, and one man even said his “hair was standing on end and his face was tingling!”
The syndicate members all work at the Prysmian Group, a cable manufacturer in Liverpool, Sydney.
Though the $40 Million Powerball winners wish to remain anonymous, they were not shy in expressing their sheer excitement and joy. One of the factory workers said the phone began ringing off the hook after they checked their ticket.
"The phone calls were flying around – my phone was ringing like mad! Everyone was calling everyone about the win – it was crazy!"
The syndicate leader went on to say he was more than happy to be sharing the win with his work colleagues. “We’re all hard workers and we all put in long shifts at work to earn some extra money for our families.”
No more long hours for these lucky workers!
Though not all the workers have decided what they are going to do with this “dream come true”, one of the workers stated that he will be retiring, and he thinks a few of the others will as well.
"You always read about people winning division one and think if only, and suddenly it’s happened to us!" exclaimed a very excited worker.
The winning numbers from Powerball draw 1042 on the 5th of May were 1, 20, 38, 11, 2 and 25 plus Powerball number 5.
