Jul
31
MTA Employee Wins Lottery
ByAubrey Boyce, a subway collection agent from Kew Gardens, has won $133 million in the Mega Millions jackpot, the New York Daily News reported today. Boyce identified himself as being from South America (he didn’t specify which country, although some reports have claimed he is from Guyana) and has spent the last eight years working for the MTA. As a collection agent, his job is to go around to different subway stations and collect the money from MetroCard machines and (formerly) token booths.
Boyce’s plan for the money? Yeah, he’s quitting his job. And taking his wife on a vacation to “someplace warm.”
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I read those news articles, and first thought “collection agent” referred to someone who mails harassing letters and sends big, burly men to your door until you make good on your debts (a new method of fare-evasion enforcement, perhaps?). Thanks for clearing that up.
Can we start donating some of the lottery ticket proceeds to fund transit? Please?
(And allow sports betting)
Taking her on vacation someplace warm? Does he KNOW what it’s been like here in NYC for the last month?
If August is anything like June and July, it’ll be the coolest summer since records have been taken…
No, it’ll be the coolest summer in 10 years or so, and an average summer by pre-1997 standards. It’s not that this year’s cool, but that this decade was warm.
Ironic how he used to collect other people’s money most of his life but is now getting a whole chunk of it.
congratulations Sir, am happy for you. God bless you.
Time and a season for everything, must be nice.
Amazing