When I was in Illinois, a man won the lottery. He turned it in, and waited until they verified the ticket. The lottery said the ticket did not have the winning numbers then announced someone else won it. The whole scam was broken only because the guy had taken the ticket to the newspaper first, and they had photographic evidence the ticket was indeed the winner. I never played the lottery since.
The odds of winning are outlandish. You've got better odds of being struck by lightning sitting in a faraday cage inside a house... inside a warehouse... inside an enclosed stadium.
Divine intervention? A sentient galaxy going "oh shit my bad, that cosmic ray was fired 8 billion years ago. We'll just shift some cosmic probability your way on your lucky picks."
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20142700? ago
When I was in Illinois, a man won the lottery. He turned it in, and waited until they verified the ticket. The lottery said the ticket did not have the winning numbers then announced someone else won it. The whole scam was broken only because the guy had taken the ticket to the newspaper first, and they had photographic evidence the ticket was indeed the winner. I never played the lottery since.
20144159? ago
All lotteries are a poor tax.
The odds of winning are outlandish. You've got better odds of being struck by lightning sitting in a faraday cage inside a house... inside a warehouse... inside an enclosed stadium.
20156885? ago
So you saying it's still possible to win? LMAO
20150806? ago
My old man called it “a tax on people who are bad at math”. Hah!
20148521? ago
yeah thats kind of true though. My ex husband had 2 family members struck by lightening and lived both of those 2 won the lottery years apart.
20148835? ago
Divine intervention? A sentient galaxy going "oh shit my bad, that cosmic ray was fired 8 billion years ago. We'll just shift some cosmic probability your way on your lucky picks."
20144421? ago
Underground. For good measure.