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Posted on 08/21/2006 5:40:37 AM PDT by presidio9
A Quebec man wants a consolation prize from his local newspaper after experiencing the thrill of winning the lottery, only to discover the paper had printed the wrong numbers.
Ulysee Maillot thought he had won last week's $42 million Lotto 6-49 jackpot - the second-largest in Canadian history - when he saw his numbers printed in Sunday's Montreal Gazette. Maillot, 62, was already plotting how he would spend the money when he discovered a few hours later that the Gazette had made a mistake.
"I felt sick," he told Global Television. "I never said a word. I was weak, I was sweaty, I was so upset."
He told Global that he has a heart condition, and has not been able to work or sleep since discovering the error.
"We are seeking something to at least allow him to be compensated for what he went through due to the circumstances," said Maillot's lawyer, Christopher Dimakos.
Dimakos would not reveal exactly how much his client is seeking from the Gazette, but said they are ready to take the paper to court if necessary.
There was no immediate response from the newspaper or any explanation how the error arose.
There were four winning tickets for last week's record jackpot. Two tickets were sold in greater Toronto, one in Kitchener and one in Quebec.
I guess the Founders were stupid too.
The First Continental Congress authorized a lottery to help fund the Revolution.
If people want to blow their money away, what business is it of yours?
I read a story one time of a case in Australia where the accumulated jackpot grew so large that the expected value of a $1 ticket became greater than a dollar. Some investors got together and tried to buy one of each possible combination of numbers. They ran into logistical problems, and I think perhaps there were issues with the game rules as well. It was an interesting story, but I think it happens almost never that the expected value of a ticket exceeds a dollar. You have to account for taxes, payout over time, and the probability of a multiple winners.
Where is there a 50¢ cup of coffee served by a waitress? I haven't seen one of those since the mid 70s. Even McDonald's coffee is more than that.
He'll lose.
Everyone knows you can't believe what you read in the newspapers.
It's the last one that really makes the whole proposition iffy. But in those cases, you're buying a $1 ticket with an expected win of $0.90. So, statistically, you've only lost a dime!
IMHO, if I spent 21 years raising a child, that would damn right well make him/her "mine".
I've entered MANY a competition - knowing full well that I wouldn't win. But, I still had a good time.
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Reading is fundamental.
I get my coffee for free BTW.
Woo Hoo!
I mean, if $1 is fun, imagine how much fun it would be to buy tickets with all of your disposal income and savings!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What I said is that if one chooses to spend their "entertainment dollars" on lottery tickets...it is no more stupid than any other "entertainment" purchase.
Furthermore, you know it even if you are in denial. LOL
Seems like it was an episode of "America's Funniest VIdeos" a few years back when they showed a clip where a guy's family played a trick on him. They had taped about an hour of radio time the day of a previous lottery drawing and made sure one of his numerous tickets for the following week contained the previous week's winning numbers. THey were outside enjoying a cookout when the "numbers were announced." THe man checked his tickets and went "ape sh!t" and was very obnoxious and in their faces about winning, and what he was gonna do with the money, etc.! When he found out the joke was on him, he got SO MAD and threw a tantrum like a toddler!! Funny stuff.
Good response...from one with nothing left to say. Bear in mind I don't actually play myself...maybe a few scratch offs on rare occasions. My point was and is...how one chooses to spend ones entertainment dollars - whether it is buying a beer to flying to Tahiti - it's all good.
There really isn't much TO say about such a topic. To most people, it's obvious that it's a personal choice, and I haven't seen a single person ever say it wasn't. It's just an opinion, people can tell how stupid they are by the number of tickets they buy.
And people who are entertained by day dreaming about nonsense that can never be in return for money are stupid.
Send me $2 and I'll give you the right to dream about anything you want.
LOL
However, I dreamed about it for years before it happened.
And, I personally risked about 500K (my job, house & all of my wife and my 401k) to get to where I am. ALOT of people told us "we were stupid". (as we both had nice, safe incomes and could have earned 120-150k annually - without really trying).
Now, I'm pricing 45 foot catamrans and looking for a nice spot of land in the Caribbean to spend 3-6 months a year in - gardening and scuba diving.
"Stupid" is a very relative term.
"A lot" of people might have said that, but I wasn't one of them.
"Stupid" is a very relative term.
Yep, and gambling on something you cannot possibly win, the lotto, is stupid.
What you did was just ill advised, it's different.
Would that have been stupid?
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