Weird S**t

[StarryEyed]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38126776/

A woman has just won the Texas lottery - for the FOURTH time! Makes me think about Biff getting that sports almanac from the future in the 2nd Back to the Future movie. The odds of this are supposedly 200 million to one which sounds like a very low estimate to me. Do we have a time traveler among us or a real psychic?

 

[SPOCKED]

She alerted me to your "naughty" thread title... yesterday

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Her least favorite letters are probably I, R and S.

 

[Jetfire]

It would be different if she hit the Jackpot 4 times...but scratchers plus other games...she is just lucky.

 

[StarryEyed]

It would be different if she hit the Jackpot 4 times...but scratchers plus other games...she is just lucky.

One hell of a lot of luck. Each one of those games got her over a million dollars.

It's pretty safe to say that the odds of winning that much money are at least 1000-1 against, probably a lot more. To have it happen four times would be 1000 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 or one quadrillion to one against. Lucky indeed.

OOPS. What I posted above would be the odds of winning four times consecutively. But how often does one play the lottery when one is already a millionaire?

 

[Jetfire]

There is a guy from North Carolina who has won in VA alot.

North Carolina Man Wins $90,800 In Pick 4 Drawing – His Fourth Big Win!
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HE BUYS 20 TICKETS FOR ONE DRAWING AND THEY ALL WIN

“It’s been a good number for me.”

That remark by Steven Granger of Henderson, North Carolina, may be the understatement of the year.

He selected the number combination 5-1-1-7 on 20 tickets in the Virginia Lottery’s May 22 Pick 4 day drawing. They all won. Each of his “exact order” tickets won $5,000 and each of the “50/50” tickets won $2,700, for a grand total of $90,800.

That would be amazing enough, but it’s only part of the story. Even more astonishing is the fact that Mr. Granger has done this twice before in Pick 4 and once in Cash 5. On April 12, 2009, he won $90,800 when 5-1-1-7 was drawn and on May 10, 2009, he won $65,800 with that same combination. On September 28, 2005, he won $900,000 with nine winning Cash 5 tickets.

“I just play for fun,” he said as he claimed his latest prize. “It’s kind of a hobby. I’ve been really lucky.”

However, now he has a problem. He’s running out of wall space to hang all of the over-sized winner checks he has collected from the Virginia Lottery.

Mr. Granger, who works in real estate, bought all of his winning tickets at his favorite store: Bracey Mini Mart, 3230 Highway 903 in Bracey, Virginia.

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