Indiana Lottery promotion gets crazy

Comment #8

LckyLary — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:27:26 GMT

Hmmm..... this give me an idea for a song! 200 Red Balloons...

200 Red Balloons, floating in the December sky, everyone's an instant winner, everyone's a silly fool.....

I'll segway it into where the balloons are mistaken for incoming warheads and cause a Red Alert and the President scrambles bombers to Indiana to shoot down the balloons...

Comment #7

KY Floyd — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:26:42 GMT

Personally, I figure that letting a bunch of ballons go just means that next week there will be a bunch of pieces of bright rubber hanging ina bunch of trees, and I think it should be treated like any other form of littering.

Littering implications aside, this was a perfectly good promotion. For the cost of 200 balloons, 190 Christmas cards, and 10 free tickets, they got thousands of dollars worth of publicity. As long as nobody was seriously injured they're even lucky the crowd got out of co... [ More ]

Comment #6

BevsPicks — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:30:21 GMT

I don't generally comment on an article unless it is interesting. But this event has been rated by me as the:

NUMBER #1 MOST STUPID IDEA FOR 2006!

What were they thinking

Comment #5

CASH Only — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:43:53 GMT

Maybe people grabbed the balloons thinking they would fly to out-of-state locations.

Maybe NY should sell off its lottery also; it's corrupt, albeit in a different way.

Comment #4

Todd — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:57:14 GMT

I was thinking exactly the same thing. What a dopey promotion!!! Be sure to watch the video.

Did you see how the balloons are all clumped together

Comment #3

Todd — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:56:24 GMT

News tips can be forwarded to my PM.

Comment #2

wizeguy — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:55:19 GMT

People are nuts, at least 102 of them! 100 who assaulted lottery officials, the one who thought up this promotion and the one who approved it

Comment #1

jim695 — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:46:47 GMT

Andrew Reed is one of the biggest liars this state has ever produced.

He insists that Indiana's liability limit on the Daily Games is two million dollars per drawing, but is unable to point to where that limit is written or otherwise mandated. He's the Hoosier Lottery's spin doctor, and is the sole survivor of Queen Esther's axe attack, due only to his remarkable ability to lie to the public and make them believe that what we're looking at isn't what it is, it's something else.

Esther Sc... [ More ]

Indiana Lottery promotion gets crazy

Lottery Post — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:18:55 GMT

Lottery chief hurt as crowd grabs potentially valuable balloons

Indiana Lottery officials had hoped to parade into Pan American Plaza in Indianapolis on Wednesday afternoon and let 200 red balloons some carrying prizes fly into the sky and ultimately into the hands of some lucky Hoosiers.

But before they were able to yell Go! a hundred or so people who'd gathered to watch the event charged forward, grabbing balloons and roughing up at least one of the balloon-holders.

No, no! An... [ More ]