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hitchaser — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 21:05:37 GMT

dear players,i bet hundreds, if not thousands, of lottery players in the hagerstown area won big when the machines didn't work during most of monday. how? because they couldn't buy more losing numbers during those hours. i know i like it a lot when i don't play the lottery one day and my numbers don't come out to betray me...cheers,hitchaser...

Phone trouble halts MD lottery sales for 6 hours

Lottery Post — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:55:10 GMT

On Monday, lottery players were having a hard time getting clerks to take their money.That's because 329 lottery machines were down in Washington County for about six hours because of a problem with AT T phone lines, according to Maryland Lottery spokesman Brian Johnson and AT T spokesman Dave Johnson.Snow that melted and froze on an AT T microwave tower outside Hagerstown probably was the culprit that caused the lottery machines to go down, a problem that also affected some long-distance caller... [ More ]