IT'S ONLY MONEY
The massive Euro lottery win of Dolores McNamara of Limerick, a cool 115 million Euros, has overshadowed a story from the United States, where 110 players from 29 states all became winners of $500,000 -- the second-rang prize of the country's popular Powerball Multi-State Lottery.
The lottery authorities raised their eyebrows at the amount of winners, all of them picking the same five numbers that gave them a second dividend (22, 28, 32, 33 and 39), and started to investigate a possible fraud. They argued that statistically there should have been no more than four or five winners with the second-tier numbers.
As the 110 winners began to turn up to claim their prizes, the truth emerged. Every one of them had eaten in Chinese restaurants located around the country, and had chosen their numbers from a fortune cookie. All the cookies came from Wonton Foods in Long Island City, close to the Queens area of New York.
Getting back to dear Dolores, who is probably by now regretting that she let people know she had a winning coupon, her windfall is estimated to be worth something in the region of 13,000 Euros a day pre-tax in interest.
What will she do with her new found wealth? It will be interesting to take a look at her lifestyle a year from now -- and I don't for one minute give any credence to the remark by one of her children that he wants to "carry on and be a bricklayer, like dad."
The lottery authorities raised their eyebrows at the amount of winners, all of them picking the same five numbers that gave them a second dividend (22, 28, 32, 33 and 39), and started to investigate a possible fraud. They argued that statistically there should have been no more than four or five winners with the second-tier numbers.
As the 110 winners began to turn up to claim their prizes, the truth emerged. Every one of them had eaten in Chinese restaurants located around the country, and had chosen their numbers from a fortune cookie. All the cookies came from Wonton Foods in Long Island City, close to the Queens area of New York.
Getting back to dear Dolores, who is probably by now regretting that she let people know she had a winning coupon, her windfall is estimated to be worth something in the region of 13,000 Euros a day pre-tax in interest.
What will she do with her new found wealth? It will be interesting to take a look at her lifestyle a year from now -- and I don't for one minute give any credence to the remark by one of her children that he wants to "carry on and be a bricklayer, like dad."
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