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Man struck by lightning hours after buying lottery ticketsNews Story
A Kansas man was struck by lightning hours after buying three Mega Millions lottery tickets, proving in real life the old saying that a gambler is more likely to be struck down from the sky than win the jackpot. Bill Isles, 48, bought three tickets in the record $656 million lottery Thursday at a Wichita, Kan., grocery store. On the way to his car, Isles said he commented to a friend: I've got a better chance of getting struck by lightning than winning the lottery. Later at about 9:30 p
Apr 2, 2012, 1:45 pm - Lottery News

Yuck! Taiwan dog poop lottery draws thousandsNews Story
An innovative scheme to keep the streets of northern Taiwan clean has seen thousands of citizens dutifully collecting bags of dog poop in the hope of winning $2,000 in gold. More than 4,000 residents of New Taipei City, which surrounds the capital, have signed up for the competition since it was launched in early August, and have so far collected 14,000 bags of the stuff. The outcome of the campaign beat all our expectations, Lai Lien-chueh, from the city's environmental protection bureau
Dec 7, 2011, 3:12 pm - Lottery News

N.C. man rescues winning lottery ticket in garbageNews Story
Almost threw away $200,000 Powerball lottery ticket After throwing his lottery ticket in the trash, James Dixon, a retired maintenance supervisor from Burlington, realized the lottery numbers he checked were for the previous day. Dixon said something told him to fetch the ticket and check the lottery numbers again. The trash was already down at the street ready to be picked up, Dixon said. I went out and pulled the bag, took it inside and dumped everything into a laundry basket. Di
Jun 3, 2011, 10:03 am - Lottery News

47 people pick winning Fantasy 5 numbersNews Story
Rare consecutive sequence drawn Monday The Florida Lottery set a new record with 47 top prize winners in the Fantasy 5 game. Lottery officials say each ticket matching all five numbers drawn Monday night is worth $4,581.74. The winning numbers were 14-15-16-17-18. This is the most number of Fantasy 5 winners since 2001 when the Fantasy 5 matrix was changed from 26 to 36 numbers, making it more difficult to win. In 2005, 40 tickets matched all five numbers, which is the previous record u
Mar 22, 2011, 11:34 am - Lottery News

2 men survive deadly casino bus crash, then board anotherNews Story
They couldn't resist. Two gamblers who miraculously survived a catastrophic brush with death aboard a Chinatown casino bus climbed back aboard the same company's bus only hours later for another trip to the gaming tables. Bernardo Garcia, a 50-year-old cook from Brooklyn whose buddy Miguel Aquino was one of 14 people killed in Saturday's horrific 5:30 a.m. World Wide Tours bus crackup on the Hutchinson River Parkway said he figured Lady Luck was on his side. I'm the kind of person that
Mar 14, 2011, 4:54 pm - Lottery News

Woman sues TV station over lottery numbers errorNews Story
A Fort Lee, New Jersey, woman who says she thought fortune had smiled on her with a $250,000 winner in a 2009 Mega Millions drawing is suing WABC-TV for allegedly broadcasting the wrong winning numbers and leaving her devastated when she discovered she had won nothing. Rakel Daniele is seeking $75,000 in damages from WABC-TV, American Broadcasting Co., the Walt Disney Co. and an unidentified Jane Doe in a lawsuit that was transferred to federal District Court in Newark last week from state Su
Feb 27, 2011, 8:25 am - Lottery News

UPDATE: $128.6M Powerball lottery ticket sold in porn shopNews Story
Sticky situation? Winner can't stay anonymous by Todd Northrop When it was announced at Lottery Post Sunday that the winning Powerball ticket was sold at the Uptown Book Store, few people outside of Highland Park, Michigan, knew that location was actually a porn shop, specializing in adult books, pornographic movies and sex toys. Perhaps the winner is right now figuring out how to deal with the potentially sticky situation of claiming the winning ticket that he or she bought in the porn
Nov 9, 2010, 2:10 pm - Lottery News

Israel Lottery draws same numbers twice in monthNews Story
The odds may have been in the trillions-to-one range, but lightning has indeed struck twice for some lucky lottery players in Israel. The national bi-weekly lottery draw Saturday led to the astronomically improbable result of the same six double-digit balls being pulled in less than a month. The Miphal HaPayis state game picked 36, 33, 32, 26, 14, 13 and the strong number 2 as the winning combination. But a quick look at the results caused panic and amazement: the same first six numbers
Oct 18, 2010, 10:15 am - Lottery News

Hoax: Man claimed he shredded winning ticketNews Story
The real winner says she has played the same number for years A Florida man's story to get his hands on $14.5 million in lottery winnings has been shredded. Chris Gooden, 31, had claimed that he put a winning lottery ticket in the shredder by mistake last month and that he literally only had shreds of evidence that he was the true winner of the Sept. 22 Florida Lottery drawing. The story seemed like a tragedy until the real winner, a 70-year-old retiree, came forward with the winning ti
Oct 5, 2010, 10:48 pm - Lottery News

Lottery winner has lucky numbers tattooed on his armNews Story
It's not something most of us would need reminding about, but delighted Wayne Hughes has immortalized his 1.1 million (US$1.7 million) lottery win by having it etched on to his arm. Shop worker Hughes, 34, marked the windfall with a tattoo that reads, Sat 7th Aug 2010 along with his lucky numbers, 13, 16, 22, 25, 31, 39. Hughes found out he was a winner after his mother checked his ticket and called him with the good news. He raced over to her house and checked and double checked his ti
Aug 14, 2010, 10:36 am - Lottery News