» Thursday, November 29, 2001
Guy in Oregon buys a lottery ticket that has winning numbers on it. He says it's for the drawing on June 18th at 7:30 PM, and the ticket says "For 06/18/01, Megabucks is $8.35 million, & Powerball is $10 million!!" on it. The Oregon Lottery refused to pay, saying that he purchased it at 11:10 PM on June 18th, as noted by times encoded in barcode on the ticket and by the fact that the ticket says it's for the June 20th drawing. Guy is suing the Lottery for failure to pay out; the Lottery is trying to get the district attorney to prosecute him for fraud. At the very least, it should teach the Oregon Lottery to never have tickets that talk about drawings that might have happened before the message was changed.
Not the Brazilian guy who's been claiming to be the man in the picture (a famous forged one showing him standing on top of the World Trade Center as an American Airlines jet seems to be aiming right at it), but a Hungarian guy who made an
obviously fake movie because of his warped sense of humor, and it took off from there. Kudos to SillyGirl for finding it (and no, I'm not going to tell you how I found it there).
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