Posted on 11/17/2012 4:55:49 AM PST by SMGFan
A maintenance worker in Syracuse, N.Y. claims that he won $5 million on an instant lottery ticket. He took it back to the store where he had purchased it, and the store owner’s son told him that he had only won $5,000. The man offered him for $4,000 in cash for the ticket. The store owner’s two sons sat on the ticket for six years, then turned it in to the state lottery. The lottery sensed that something was not right here. To smoke out the shenanigans, the state lottery planted a story in the media. They didn’t lie, exactly, but they kind of lied. They gave information in a news release that’s usually reserved for lottery-winner press conferences, and the release just didn’t look like a normal lottery-winner-update sent out to local media. It gave out too much information, and set no press conference date. Veteran newspeeps suspected that something was up.
Something was. The store owner’s sons claimed that they had kept their lottery win quiet because, as Muslims, they’re forbidden from gambling. How does waiting for six years solve that problem?
Meanwhile, the convenience store at the center of the scandal has lost its license to sell lottery tickets.
(Excerpt) Read more at consumerist.com ...
In my case it is about $10 a year !
I’ll buy a $1 ticket on a whim ,sometimes months go buy with no lottery purchase.
I’m only a bit stupid.
I had a statistics prof. in college who said there is a number when it's actually mathematically favorable to buy a ticket. I can't remember what amount it was, but it might have been 25 million. He drew the theory on the blackboard. And he was an excellent stats prof.
Perhaps, but my dad won 3,000 and 75,000 playing scratch off tickets.
Yeah, I much prefer confiscatory taxes
Muslims being Muslims
Muslims being Muslims
Even a blind pig finds an ear of corn in a plowed field - once in a while........
Millions never win a fraction of what they spend......glad you know one of them who won......
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