Posted on 06/23/2006 5:26:36 PM PDT by dfwddr
(CNN) -- A dispute over a winning lottery ticket would have cost Indiana's Hoosier Lottery $5 to resolve in 1997. Now it will cost more than $1 million to settle in court.
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This money should come out of the pockets of the bureaucrats that caused this.
Founding Fathers must have been DUmmies too, because the Continental Congress raised funds through a lottery to pay for the war.
No, the dummies are the ticket buyers. The sellers are the smart ones.
Isn't that the truth. I have no idea what the Lottery Commissioner makes up there, but in TN, she starts at 1.6m, before bonuses.
Thats a nice chunk of change. But no they will take it out of their so called it's for the schools fund.
I was not aware of that, so I did a quick Google. This stood out:
Sales of tickets for the first class lottery were far slower than expected and the lottery was postponed several times. Finally on May 1, 1778 the drawing was begun with only 20,433 of the 100,000 tickets sold. Sales continued during the drawing period. When the final tickets were drawn on May 27th about 36,500 of the $10 tickets had been sold. The government owned most of the tickets and is estimated to have ended up with a net loss of more than $72,000!
While I intend to read up further, it appears our elders were smarter than we are.
"Founding Fathers must have been DUmmies too, because the Continental Congress raised funds through a lottery to pay for the war."
I'm very much against gambling, and support making it illegal, but yes, gambling and lotteries were popular among the founding fathers.
I think a lot of modern Christians are surprised when they discover that.
Check out the success they had in post #8.
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has known how to operate the numbers game for hudnreds of years. The payoff is 60% with 30 percent to grease the police and politicians and 10% for the Sopranos!
Family story. 1944 and I was a year old and we lived in Newark. Dad was in the Navy and Mom worked at the Control Tower at Newark Airport. A relative from Pittsburg was coming to town and my Mom was going to pick her up at the Newark train station and take her to visit relatives in New York. My Mom asked a neighbor to babysit me.
Mom had a dream that night about her father who had passed away 10 years earlier. He told her to remember a number. When Florence came to take care of me it was early and Mom couldn't hook up with the neighborhood connection, the local shoemaker. She asked Florence to put $5.00 on the number and left. All day she had that "itch" on the back of her head but didn't make a connection during her travels. When she got home that evening she came into the apartment and Florence was sitting at the kitchen table with the paper in front of her face. Mom asked how the day had gone and Florence dropped the paper and Mom saw that tears were streaming down her face. Mom said "What happened?" Florence said it was 1944 and $5.00 was too much to bet. Instead, she had taken me down town to Bamburgers and bought me a new pair of shoes with the $5.00.
The number had "hit" and to this day I still have those $3000 shoes which Mom had bronzed!!
check out the writer's name.. LOL
Poor fellow.
I thought Tony Grosso paid 700 to 1. Oh well, the politicians of later years must have been easier to buy.
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