The Bulgarian Lottery: Coincidence or Conspiracy?

Posted by Alex in Odd News on September 20, 2009 at 2:31 pm

Was it a freak coincidence or proof of a vast lottery conspiracy? In Bulgaria, the set of 6 winning numbers were drawn twice in a row:

Sports Minister Svilen Neikov ordered an investigation after the numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42 were selected, in a different order, by a machine live on television on September 6 and 10. The results caused suspicions of manipulation.

An investigation found no wrongdoing in the draw or determining the winners, its chairman Konstantin Simeonov said.

"We cannot talk about any manipulation," he said.

The chance of the same six numbers coming up twice in two consecutive rounds was one in more than 4 million but was not impossible, respected mathematician Michail Konstantinov has said.

Link (Photo: Stoyan Nenov / Reuters)

 
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Collect $4 Million, Go Directly to Jail

Posted by Miss Cellania in Crime & Law on July 23, 2009 at 12:55 pm

Barry Shell of Brampton, Ontario could call it his lucky day -or his unlucky day. He won $4.4 million dollars in the Canadian Lotto drawing July 18th. Monday, he went to pick up his winnings at the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, and was photographed with the check.

Then Shell strolled out of the building and into the hands of Peel Regional Police officers.

He was wanted on a six-year-old warrant for failing to appear, theft under $5,000 and possession of property obtained by crime.

According to a spokesman for the OLG, every lottery winner undergoes a security check, and if anything is turned up during the course of the investigation the matter is turned over to the Ontario Provincial Police.

At least he was able to raise the bail. Link -via Arbroath

 
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La Vie En Rose, With a Thorn

Posted by Queuebot in Advertising, Funny, Music, Video Clips on January 29, 2009 at 1:53 am


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Here's a brief and funny commercial for the New Zealand lottery featuring an English version of Edith Piaf's signature song, La Vie En Rose.

- via dilidoo

From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by Minnesotastan.

 
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Hummer Made from Lottery Tickets

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts, Car & Vehicle on January 17, 2009 at 9:00 am

This Hummer H3 is built from $35,000 in losing lottery tickets. No sheet metal here, folks. The piece is by Brooklyn-based artists Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was and it’s entitled Ghost of a Dream. The tickets came from local bodegas, where they were discarded by unlucky patrons.

See more pictures at Jalopnik. Link -via Unique Daily

 
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Man Won Lottery on Ticket He Bought the Day He Died

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on January 4, 2009 at 11:52 am

Donald Peters has got to be both the luckiest and unluckiest man on the day of his death. Well, unlucky because he suffered a heart attack and died, but lucky because he just bought the winning lottery ticket that provided for his family:

The Peters children think their father would have appreciated the irony.

Peters bought two Connecticut Lottery tickets at a local 7-Eleven store on Nov. 1 as part of a 20-year tradition he shared with his wife Charlotte. Later that day, the 79-year-old retired hat factory worker suffered a fatal heart attack while working in his yard in Danbury. [...]

"He’d be very mad, he just passed away and she won a lot of money," said Brian Peters, one of the couple’s three children. "He’d say, ‘Figures!"’

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