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.
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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.
20150806? ago
My old man called it “a tax on people who are bad at math”. Hah!