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 ....
Sounds like fraud to me.
ReplyDeleteOne might argue that lotteries as a class of enterprise are a fraud.
ReplyDeleteIn 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 ....