Posted on 07/13/2010 4:20:08 PM PDT by PilotDave
BISHOP, Texas — The odds that Joan Ginther would hit four Texas Lottery jackpots for a combined nearly $21 million are astronomical. Mathematicians say the chances are as slim as 1 in 18 septillion — that's 18 and 24 zeros.
Just as unlikely? Getting to know one of the luckiest women in the world.
"She wants her privacy," friend Cris Carmona said.
On a $50 scratch-off ticket bought in this rural farming community, Ginther won $10 million last month in her biggest windfall yet. But it was the fourth winning ticket in Texas for the 63-year-old former college professor since 1993, when Ginther split an $11 million jackpot and became the most famous native in Bishop history.
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Poor women..she’ll get no rest now...Barry will be there with hat in hand.
It’s an easy scam. Winning lotto scratch-off ticket is printed by a lotto executive (or internal computer techie) and given to the correct person.
Correct person then goes in to a store and purchases a single lotto ticket (maybe more for appearances).
Correct person puts store-bought tickets into pocket with winning ticket, then pulls out winning ticket and scratches it off.
Poof!
We Have A Winner!
Possible indication of either cheating, or a functional bi-directional time displacement device. Wonder which one?
Let me guess, he works at a place that sells lotto tickets?
There is no such thing as that kind of coincidence.
Look at the stats. Something is afoul here.
It’d have to be a little more complicated than that. Each lottery ticket has a unique serial number and, yes, they know which ones are winners.
Duplicating a winning ticket with the correct serial number and buying the non-winning one with that same serial number at the proper store would be more remote than actually hitting the thing by chance.
The odds of two big winning tickets even at the same store is astronomical. They are beating the system somehow. I have zero doubt.
Color me suspicious.*VERY* suspicious.
A Man Who Was Struck By Lightning 7 Times
Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was a U.S. park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.
Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them. In his lifetime he gained “Human Lightning Conductor” as a nickname.
But it never killed him. He did that himself on Sept. 28, 1983, at age 71 with a pistol.
http://www.shock4all.com/2008/12/man-who-was-struck-by-lightning-7-times.html
Nope. It does not work like that. In fact, lottery fraud is pretty easy to uncover. Each scratch-off has a serial number, and they are sold and distributed in assigned batches. The winner needs to have bought his ticket from the right seller at the right time or any scheme will be quickly exposed.
This could be the spiritual world laughing at us. How much effort would it take God to make this lady a 4 time lotto winner? Why would he or something else do that?
My Dad won two-The first was for 3,000, the second for 75,000. Both were scratch off tickets.
“Former college professor”??
THAT gets MY suspicions up......
(if she’s from Harvard, she’ll be an Obama Czar before ya know it....)
My bet is a lot.
At the Times Market where Ginther bought her last two winning tickets, the highway gas station is fast becoming a pilgrimage for unlucky lottery losers. Lines stretch deep past a $5.98 bin of Mexican movie DVDs,
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