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This group of employees thought they had won the lottery and absolutely lost it

But they hadn’t double checked the numbers :(

THE POWERBALL LOTTERY is all anyone can go on about in the US these days, and with the total jackpot pushing near €900 million last weekend it’s easy to see why.

So on Saturday night, a group of 42 employees in an Italian restaurant in New Jersey gathered to hear the numbers after all pitching in.

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So, the bartender of the restaurant received a text from a friend who got the numbers from the lottery website – and they had a full match. Needless to say the place erupted

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All 42 staff members had paid into the pool for the Powerball – the jackpot stood at a cool €872 million for Saturday – but there was one catch.

The bartender had received the numbers for Wednesday night’s numbers instead of Saturday’s on his phone – but they didn’t realise for a solid 20 minutes.

The wild celebrations continued – with one declaring “I’m never washing another dish in my life”

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Their story has now gone viral – as they uploaded the celebration footage to YouTube and TV news across the world have been all over it.

The bartender told Buzzfeed that he was gutted, but that the experience wasn’t all bad:

I wouldn’t trade that feeling for anything in the world. Even though we didn’t win, it was such a great feeling and something we will always have.

Aww.

And this evening they are appearing on CNN with their story, and sharing the journey on Facebook

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They’re going to enter this weekend’s Powerball again.

Let’s just hope they double check the numbers this time.

Written by David Elkin and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Aug 27th 2013, 8:30 AM

    Hopefully they find the dirt that did this!

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    Aug 27th 2013, 2:35 PM

    Accidents happen and we don’t know the facts of how this happened or who was to blame whether it be the driver or the deceased but it takes a certain type of low life to leave a man to die on the road and for that I hope they are caught and receive a befitting punishment.

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    Aug 27th 2013, 8:39 AM

    They really need to change the laws around hit and runs, they are far far too lax,

    Should be a min sentence of 5 or 10years for leaving the scene and

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    Aug 27th 2013, 10:25 AM

    I got knocked down while walking home from a pub one night .i was 20yards from my home the guy that knocked me down walked me home told me he would call to me in morn ” after he sobered up ” next thing I knew the guards were at my house at 11 am to take a statement and to look where it happened he brought me to court for bursting up front of his car I was fined 120 pounds for obstructing traffic or 1 month in jail he got off scot free cos he knew d guards I was off work for 6 mths after cos I cud barly walk some justice system in this country my arse. Jail would b too gud for these people.

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    Aug 27th 2013, 2:31 PM

    Think you told that story before, the name and some of the facts have changed though

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    Aug 28th 2013, 1:30 PM

    Sorry but I haven’t told that story before. Might have happened to someone else as well .

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    Aug 27th 2013, 10:14 AM

    Disgusting , leaving the scene, cruel to do it to an animal. If the person responsible is found I hope they are charged with manslaughter .

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    Aug 27th 2013, 11:11 AM

    Anyone not wearing a high visibility at night while walking the roads at night should be fined, an innocent driver who hits someone in dark clothing at night is automatically branded in the wrong.

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    Aug 27th 2013, 11:22 AM

    If the driver was innocent which could be quite likely they should have stopped…I know fear may have struck them but coming forward the next day would have been something. Cowarding away only increases the doubts of guilt

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    Aug 27th 2013, 12:26 PM

    They drove off after hitting him. That IS automatically in the wrong.

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    Aug 28th 2013, 7:28 AM

    Leaving the scene is inexcusable.

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    Aug 28th 2013, 1:35 PM

    People shouldn’t drink and drive this guy was drunk cos I saw him that night in my local drinking so havin a highvis on or not he was in the wrong when u get hit by a car come back and talk to me god lad.

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    Aug 27th 2013, 10:24 AM

    There is not much care on the roads up there. Too many hit & runs, many of them our northern drivers who don’t give a crap (sometimes).

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    Aug 27th 2013, 11:20 AM

    To be fair that is a gross generalisation…be like saying all people ‘down there’ in limerick are druggies….the fact is no theyre not nor are all Northern drivers hoping the border to drive recklessly

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    Aug 27th 2013, 12:25 PM

    The poor woman, discovering her dead husband. This is around the corner from my cousin’s house.
    Also, that’s not how you spell Boynagh.

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