Man Thinks Random Lottery Ticket Words Insulting His Hometown Are No Accident

Consumerist ^ | May 8, 2015

[SMGFan]

New York’s current “Wheel of Fortune” branded instant lottery game seems pretty fun: you scratch off letters and reveal which are or aren’t on the game board. These words are supposed to be randomly generated, but one gambler is really upset at the state lottery after scratching off the words, “YOU/ELMIRA/TRASH.” You can probably guess where he lives.

[Lazamataz]

As someone who once wrote software for the gaming industry, he’s right. It was no accident.

[NRx]

Having grown up not too far from Elmira, I see nothing inaccurate about the words.

[MeshugeMikey]

perhaps this has something to do with ISILS latest threat? to severely..frighten us..?/s

[enraged]

The pic I saw he hadn’t scratched off all the letters yet. What did the whole line read?

[Lazamataz]

YOU ARE ELMIRA NY TRASH AND MUST DIE

[Sirius Lee]

Ida Noe. It's kinda fashionable and hip.

[Hulka]

Back in the 80’s I, and Air Force guy, was TDY on a Navy command ship in the mid-east and had to manually construct authentication tables (to be used by an ally in the region so we could authenticate between us).

I would build into the authentication tables snide messages directed at my nasty Navy boss.

He never caught on. One has to have fun when deployed far from home. . .

[Organic Panic]

“MAIL BUOY, PORT SIDE, 800 YARDS!!!”
“Booter, get a bulkhead remover”
“Booter, we need 50 feet of shoreline NOW!”
“Booter, head down to sick bay and get 100 yards of falopian tubing.”

Ahh those poor guys who showed up to basic with pre-shaved heads.

[Hulka]

As long as they brought 50yrds of flight-line with them, all is well.

;-)

[Organic Panic]

I was a coastie. Not navy. Did they keep the falopian tubing on the same spools as the flight line?

[Viking2002]

LOL My late father grew up there. Were he still alive, he'd probably agree.

[VRW Conspirator]

Did someone say Elvira?

[Hulka]

I think so. . .they were next to the buckets of prop-wash.

[martin_fierro]

FUN FACT: Elvira was on a Tom Waits album cover.

[SamAdams76]

Elmira...some country act had a huge hit with that back in the early 1980s.

My heart's on fire...for Elmira. Or something like that.

[ViLaLuz]

Report to the fan tail to log sightings of CGU-11s.

[Organic Panic]

Id10t error detected.

[trebb]

Having grown up not too far from Elmira, I see nothing inaccurate about the words.

Same here - like many of the small towns with old houses, they have deteriorated to the equivalence of trashy trailer parks and the people would fit right in.

[ViLaLuz]

Heh heh, another good one.