Posted on 09/29/2021 7:58:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Michigan man won $45,000 in a lottery game – but drowned with the ticket in his wallet before he was able to cash it.
Gregory Jarvis, 57, was at the Blue Water Inn in Caseville on Sept. 13 when he played the Club Keno add-on game “The Jack” — and hit the jackpot, WJRT of Flint reported.
“Very nice guy, he was here every day,” joint owner Dawn Talaski told the news station. “Somebody said someone just won ‘The Jack’ and he said, ‘Great,’ and someone asked him, ‘Was it you?’ and it was, so he was super excited.”
Talaski said Jarvis returned to the inn almost a week later and bought rounds of drinks, but had still not cashed his winning ticket because he didn’t have the proper documentation.
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Your 1099s/W2s correspondence from SS are generally recognized as proof.
I end up hitting some win with them on occasion, at least once in a two week period. It's usually just few dollars, but it puts me in the queue for the jackpot.
” I lost my social security card, got it replaced in a day.”
Not any more. Everything takes a lot longer.
No. I may be wrong but it is my understanding a foreign tourist could buy a ticket and win. Unless said tourist leaves the US with the winning ticket not yet cashed and then returns to claim it once they know they won. Then some bizarre law makes importing that ticket illegal.
I found mine a few months ago. Hadn’t seen it in in about 10 years.
This was last year.
There actually was a Far Side about this scenario.
you were lucky
What were the odds of winning 45K?
What were the odds of drowning while tying up the boat?
Now add them together.
“I just chaulk it up to entertainment expense”
That’s smart. Unfortunately most people I see buying lotto play like they’re expecting to win.
Like all gambling the odds of winning big at lotto are astronomical....and yet people do win. I read somewhere once that most lotto winners spend something like $200 to $300 a week.....wow
Here’s what mine says: “ Due to COVID-19, you must have a scheduled appointment to enter an office.”
SO, you won’t get it in a day
spend something like $200 to $300 a week to win that is
Well, you have 0% chance of winning if you don’t play, so I just consider it entertainment.
I spend $20 every two weeks. That’s doable and controllable. I know people who throw away a LOT more than that in entertainment. Have won as much as $100 in a single draw winning.
We have lottery ticket dispensing kiosks here in Texas. It’s sad to see the types of people you mention. They’ll buy a variety of scratch-off tickets and then stand there in front of the kiosk scratching the tickets to see if they won - instant gratification craving. If they don’t, they immediately sink more money into the dispenser - lather, rinse, repeat.
I’m sure they have no savings or investments.
No: Multiply them together!
E.g.: 0.01% times 0.01% = one ten-thousandth of one percent, i.e., one in a million.
Regards,
What is your point? You are acting like a 12 year old. I asked a question and you are acting like it’s the most important matter in the world. Who cares, the guy is dead, he was unlucky to live in a state that doesn’t accept Real ID. He would still be dead if he had cashed it in.
I'm thinking more of a classic Mad Magazine two-paneller: A man cries "Good-bye, cruel world" - a dollar bill with wings flying away symbolizes lost wealth - and then throws an anchor tied to his neck into the sea. In the second panel, he's speeding to the bottom of the sea, where he spies a treasure chest overflowing with jewels and gold.
Regards,
Doubt he was illegal. He probably just lost his card.
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