Thursday, May 7, 2009

Lightning Strikes Twice ... Or Even Five Times

A West Virginia Woman named Brenda Bailey has won a government scratch-the-ticket lottery five times since September. Wins ranging from $1,000 to $100,000 now total $167,000.

She plans to pay for her pets' vet bills and some home repair, but also intends repaying people who have helped her in the past.

I ordinarily view the lottery as a tax on those bad at math, but in Brenda's case ....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like fraud to me.

Jaded Consumer said...

One might argue that lotteries as a class of enterprise are a fraud.

In Texas, there has been a rash of ticket sellers who falsely report that numbers are not winners, and pocket actual winnings. Perhaps Ms. Bailey's real luck was in playing a game in which winning tickets were easy for the layperson to spot.

Who knows ....