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Can he/she sue me?Reply
jpim, You really need to read the transcript on that lawsuit. I, like everyone else, thought duh, when I first heard about it on the radio then I found the trial transcript online. She suffered 3rd degree burns and the coffee was 180F degrees, most water heaters in the US are not set above 120F so you don't get scalded. Other customers had complained often to the store that the coffee was way to hot. Their excuse was, we do that for people to want to take it all the way to the office before d
Mar 3, 2009, 3:55 am - Dead_Aim - Lottery Discussion Forum

How much an attorney charge to claim lottery prize $25 Mil?Reply
It's not the kind of thing that an attorney would/should charge a percentage for. Let's put it this way: if you paid an attorney a percentage of the jackpot, you'd be suckered. Attorneys do work like this on an hourly rate. When you first hire them they should tell you what the hourly rate is. It will probably be $250 or greater for a good attorney. Then, when you sign the agreement to hire them, you pay a retainer, which is bascally a down payment on a certain number of hours. Once you e
Jan 9, 2009, 8:29 am - Todd - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is statistics method really useful to predict drawing number?Reply
Stats are useful, but people mistake 'useful' for 'a guarantee'. Most successful people worked hard and/or got a good break and ran with it. Most unsuccessful people didn't. Some people worked hard, but ran into some illness or bad luck. Some lazy slobs happened to be born into wealth or filed the right lawsuit. All in all, no guarantees. Stats serve as a guideline.
Feb 25, 2008, 2:18 pm - time*treat - Lottery Discussion Forum

Hoosier LotteryReply
RJ, The point of the lawsuit is that the Hoosier Lottery did exactly that. They published false and misleading information in order to entice people to buy tickets for a game where the prizes didn't exist. According to the article in the Fort Wayne Observer...the Hoosier Lottery advertised over $8 million in prizes available for the Cash Blast game. They sold 5 million tickets at $10 each for a total $50 million in ticket sales. In total they paid out less than $1 million in prizes on t
Aug 2, 2007, 9:00 pm - Uncle Jim - Lottery Discussion Forum

Paranoid or Prudent?Reply
Oh look! A Front page Lottery Post news story about New Mexico retailers filing a lawsuit against the New Mexico Lottery for unfair practices! Hmmmm? These aren't players. They're retailers. How can they be disruntled losers? That makes 9 states and counting! Tell me again that all lotteries are on the up and up...PLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAASSSSSEEEEEEE... Jim
Jul 3, 2007, 8:19 pm - Uncle Jim - Lottery Discussion Forum

what state do you think has the worst lottery?Reply
By far the worst Lottery in the Country (and maybe even the world) is the Hoosier Lottery. Here are just some of the reasons why: A history of scandal and corruption: The Hoosier Lottery has a well documented history of scandal and corruption. These are just a few of the high...or rather low lights: 1. Jack Crawford was the Hoosier Lottery's first Director. He was forced to resign after news of an affair with his housekeeper hit the press. While this scandal was not related to lotte
Jul 2, 2007, 11:44 am - Uncle Jim - Lottery Discussion Forum

Off topic: Please do NOT pump gas on May 15th!!Reply
I agree with you, anything that anyone invents that is an alternative energy power source for vehicles; the car makers buy and patent it right away, and we never hear about it again. Remember Hydrogen cars ? I will go out on a limb here and say that if any one of us invented a vehicle powerplant that would void the need for oil: if Ford or GM offered us $5 million for it, we'd take it in a heartbeat. Why ? Because if you don't you will never see a penny for it, you will be locked up in
May 13, 2007, 4:55 am - guesser - Lottery Discussion Forum

Jack W. On 20/20 TonightReply
You hit it on the head Lilly. Most of the actions this guy engages in is about drawing attention to himself. Dressed up all in black and wearing a ten-gallon black cowboy hat when he went to collect the money is all about look at me, look at me . Taking nearly a half million in cash into a strip bar shows that he has a world class inferiority complex. Bragging about giving away $50 million is, of course, going to draw even more attention and leeches to yourself. Going on 20-20, going to draw mo
Apr 7, 2007, 6:44 pm - mangeydog - Lottery Discussion Forum

working out syndicate groups?Reply
It doesn't matter when or where you buy 'certain' tickets, if you ever got sued and went to court it would not matter, unless you have it written in the contract that 'only tickets purchased at xxxxx are part of the office pool, tickets purchased elsewhere are not'. I can almost guarantee you the lawsuit would be over you pulling a switcharoo on them, the jury would be sympathetic to them, and you would probably lose, even though people 'magically know' when and where you buy THEIR tickets.
Mar 12, 2007, 12:18 am - guesser - Lottery Discussion Forum

if i won 315 million....the do's and the don'tsReply
The things you list about who you would give money to and when sound very much like Jack's list when he won. A better strategy in my opinion would be to invest (diversely) the entire sum and start with the buying and giving away after you have determined what the income on your investments actually represents. If you took Jack's cash payment - I think it was about $113 million and made conservative investments, you would still be bringing home millions each year. My understanding though
Jan 14, 2007, 10:28 pm - Prob988 - Lottery Discussion Forum