He wants to buy a new one, for about $100 million.
All he and his associates need to do first is cash the winning ticket in Friday s $970 million Mega Millions drawing, a simple matter of beating odds of 302 million to 1. What they will do with the remaining $870 million, besides pay taxes, is up to each lucky bettor in their lottery pool. The idea behind this is to get past the frustration a little bit, de Beausset said. Vent a little bit. Dream a bit.
De Beausset, 34, is the point man for a loosely organized project called Fix Our Bridge, as in the Grosse Ile Parkway Bridge, as in the free bridge to the island township of 10,000-plus residents who would just as soon not pay tolls or row a boat to get to and from their homes.