Ten co-workers who work for Chubb Commercial Insurance in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey have hit the jackpot. The co-workers played the $216 Mega Million lottery and won the massive jackpot. The win was announced during a news conference this past Wednesday.

The winning numbers in the drawing were 26, 32, 35, 4, 52 and 10. Bob Space, one of the winners, held up the winning ticket during the conference. Space purchased fifty sets of lottery numbers for the co-workers and himself from a gas station near his house on Monday. Space said he checked and rechecked to see if they had won and then had his wife check.

Space then went to work on Wednesday acting like nothing had happened. An email was sent out to the co-workers stating: “We won the big one” and the numbers for the winning ticket. Many workers thought they had won just a small amount not the large $216 prize.

All the co-workers plan on staying at work at least for the short term. If the workers take payment over twenty six years then they would receive the full $216 million. If they choose to take immediate cash out then they would split $140 million.



- 2009-03-05