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• BobP

  

  Dump Water Florida
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  May 21, 2004, 12:26 am

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  Once again South Florida WFOR TV News channel 4 (the official channel of the Florida lottery ;-)  messed up a lottery drawing. 
  
  The live video tape of the draw at 7:57pm was correct showing the Pick-4 draw for Thursday 05/20/2004 to be 8-9-7-9.
  
  The 11:00 pm news put the Pick-3/4 numbers up on screen and read them off as 8-7-7-9.
  
  I can only imagine how many people ripped up perfectly good tickets and how many will go to the store tomorrow thinking themselves a winner.
  
  Two weeks ago the same station rebroadcast a Pick-5 draw from March in place of the real draw.
  
  In my opinion you simply can not trust any source of Lottery numbers to be 100% correct and should verify the numbers at least twice, such as here at LotteryPost and the official web site, you'll find them all listed here at  http://www.lotto-logix.com/statesites.html  In addition, never destroy a lottery ticket, you just never know when the TV news will be wrong.  Besides you can use them to off set your taxes when you win big.  BobP
• Bryan

  

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  May 21, 2004, 1:14 am

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  Years ago KRCG channel 13 here in MO often puts the wrong numbers up during their broadcast. At least 2 or 3 times a month. On  two separate occasions I wrote them about it asking them if they were as shoddy with their news stories as they were with other segments of their show. (explaining it all to them). I never got a reply and I stopped relying on that channel for lottery numbers so I no longer know if they do that or not...

  It did teach me a lesson about making sure I check my tickets at local lottery dealers before discarding any tickets though.
• keystonechas

  

  Columbia,Pa
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  May 21, 2004, 1:23 am

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  I only believe half of what I see and about one third of what I hear on TV news shows. I never rip up tickets and always check them on the lottery web site, after which they are stored in a box.

  Chas
• DoctorEw220

  

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  May 21, 2004, 1:27 am

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  accidents happen.  that's why you either get your ticket checked at a retailer, or watch the draw on TV.

  I've redone my website.  Go to www.dr-ew.com.  I kept a lot of the old stuff, and I've added some new stuff.  Look for more new stuff in the coming weeks.
• interceptor

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  May 21, 2004, 8:07 pm

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  id tell the news station which mis-reported the numbers that i tore up my winning ticket and they owe me money

  thatll stop them
• hypersoniq

  

  Pennsylvania
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  May 21, 2004, 9:49 pm

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  there are too many places to check...

  Internet (lottery websites for the states and right here at the LP), newspaper, T.V. (news and actual drawings... not around for a draw? TiVO !), retailer...

  I never discard tickets until I check them at the websites (PA lottery at http://www.palottery.com  and Powerball at http://www.powerball.com ) AND at the retailer. I also watch the PB drawings on their website (and on TiVO when I can't be there to watch live).

  Have an EXCELlent day!
• DoctorEw220

  

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  May 22, 2004, 7:47 pm

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  personally, i think all lotteries should make the drawing video available online.  that way, you can get actual proof that the drawings aren't rigged at any time.

  I've redone my website.  Go to www.dr-ew.com.  I kept a lot of the old stuff, and I've added some new stuff.  Look for more new stuff in the coming weeks.