A List of Things More Likely Than You Winning The Lotto Jackpot

[no gnu taxes]

http://gizmodo.com/5897509/a-list-of-things-that-are-more-likely-than-you-winning-540-million-tomorrow

But before you get your hopes up, here's a list of things more likely to happen than your 175,000,000-to-1 numbers play.<!-- %JUMP:More &raquo;% -->

New York Mets Win the World Series 100-to-1

Chainsaw Injury: 4,464-to-1

Fireworks Injury: 19,556-to-1

Date a Supermodel: 88,000-to-1

Struck by Lightning 576,000-to-1

Suffocate in Bed 2,000,000-to-1

Killed by Lightning 2,320,000-to-1

Killed Using a Right-Handed Product (If You're Left-Handed) 7,000,000-to-1

Killed by the Escape of Radiation From a Nearby Nuclear Power Station 10,000,000-to-1

Dying in a Plane Crash 11,000,000-to-1

So there you have it. You go ahead and spend your rent <nobr>money on</nobr> MegaMillions tickets. I'm going to go out and chat up every supermodel in town. Simple math.

[daneblazer]

Considering it's $500mil at 175mil:1.. I'll take my chances with a ticket

[TheCentaur]

Approx 180 mill with lump sum payout after taxes if that. Plus high prob others hit it. For it to be +ev prob has to be 1 billion or something