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Offline Reschke

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Isn't this just a kick in the butt on how a lottery works
« on: March 05, 2009, 11:16:24 AM »
A 4 year old boys wins free trips to a tropical island paradise....WTH is going on with the world.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090305/od_nm/us_island_odd
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Re: Isn't this just a kick in the butt on how a lottery works
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2009, 08:16:51 AM »
Its proof that the gods and the fates hate me and wish to see me unhappy.  WTH was a 4 year old doing playing the damn lottery anyway.
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Re: Isn't this just a kick in the butt on how a lottery works
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2009, 08:33:43 AM »
Who knows but it sucked to see that headline.
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Re: Isn't this just a kick in the butt on how a lottery works
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2009, 09:31:08 AM »
Beats having a non-played lottery line win 2 million dollars.

We have two games in each ticket, lottery where you can cross out numbers yourself and 'joker' that the machine prints out to each card.

This guy chose not to play the $3 extra line that won $2 000 000.
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Re: Isn't this just a kick in the butt on how a lottery works
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2009, 10:53:26 AM »
Lottery definition: Additional taxes on people with poor math skills.
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Re: Isn't this just a kick in the butt on how a lottery works
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2009, 06:01:17 PM »
Only if they are dumb enough to spend large amounts of money on them.  When the States get away from personal responsibility and became a nanny stat...
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Re: Isn't this just a kick in the butt on how a lottery works
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2009, 06:48:07 PM »
Does it really matter that he won?
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