I read all that stuff about which states were helpful and which weren’t expecting there to be a payoff in the end that said what the data showed. Nope. What the heck indeed.
Whitey Bulger once won a large lottery ticket by extorting it from it’s owner. Most of these are probably due to some scam or another.
My Dad taught me,
“When there’s big money involved, somebody’s going to find a way to cheat.”
So what the heck is going on?
Do the ‘winners’ even exist?
Is this a scam where lottery officials are in cahoots with someone who purchases a winning ticket?
Old people, or computer illiterate folk go to their ‘trusted’ vendor and ask to have their tickets checked. The vender checks it and tells them they ‘won’ 10 bucks and gives them the cash. Since the vender is not allowed to play, he or she has a partner who regularly is handed the winning ticket and shares the booty.
Please quit your abuse of the news forum with chat material.
60 Minutes: How a retired couple found lottery odds in their favor
Best way there is to throw your hard-earned money down a rat hole.
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy once joked that the lottery was the redneck's retirement plan.
All this stupid crap is very entertaining... Yawn...
Wake me when we get to discussing the groups of people who play and, suspiciously, NEVER win the lottery... I could provide a lot of info on that...
I think this article misuses statistics. The question is not how likely is it that any one particular person should be so lucky as these people named. The question is how likely is it that the luckiest person in the state should be so lucky. If you have millions of people in a state buying lottery tickets then the luckiest person among them can be expected to be exceptionally lucky.