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ok so dude in LA was cruising around looking for what to eat. Considered going to Olviera St. for Mexican food, the wife wanted the double decker chicken sandwhich from KFC, he ended up in a BBQ joint and bought 10 lotto tickets. They hit for like 238 million. They are both plump little folks, now they can eat VERY well. She works a KNBC LA in the news dept. and says she will continue to work, says she wouldn't know what else to do with herself (I could teach her).
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why can't i win the lottery?
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Oh Lord Marilyn you and me both. I could teach her so fast her head would be spinning LOL...Comment
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I joke, but I must add that this couple said they plan to do a lot of good with this money as well, but be careful, some years from now if not careful, they CAN end up broke and in a hole.Comment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Marilyn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I joke, but I must add that this couple said they plan to do a lot of good with this money as well, but be careful, some years from now if not careful, they CAN end up broke and in a hole. </div></div>
I have seen a lot of lottery winners goes that road for real. “Ants falla fat”Comment
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Pretty soon they are going to have a lot of new relatives.
Also I stand corrected, it was 266 millionComment
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Rather than start another thread....more lottery magic
(May 7) -- Here's a math problem: What are the odds of two winning lottery tickets being bought two years apart from the same gas station by two siblings?
New York City resident Cindy Altunis, 32, was visiting her mother on Long Island on March 1 when they stopped in at the Northern Service Station in East Norwich. The station had sentimental value for the family. Cindy's brother, Kenan Altunis, had bought a winning $1 Million for Life lottery ticket there in 2008.
It wasn't until Cindy arrived back at her mother's home in Oyster Bay that she learned just how lucky the station was. She scratched off the $500,000,000 Extravaganza game ticket and learned that she'd bought a ticket worth more than $1 million.
New York Lottery
Kenan Altunis, left, and his sister Cindy Altunis show off their lottery winnings. In 2008, Kenan won $1 million a year for the rest of his life. Cindy won a $1 million prize with a ticket she bought March 1.
"We thought, it can't be; no one could be this lucky," she told representatives at the New York Lottery. "We are very thankful for being so fortunate."
Back to the math problem. According to the New York State Lottery, the chances of winning the $1 Million for Life game are 1 in 3,528,000. The odds of winning $1 million on a $500,000,000 Extravaganza ticket are 1 in 420,000.
Stanford University statistics professor Susan Holmes bristled at the notion of trying to come up with a single ratio to determine the odds of siblings buying winning lottery tickets from the same store. Citing the dizzying amount of variables, Holmes told AOL News that calculating such odds that took into account each and every aspect was impossible.
"You can't really do a simple computation for where they buy the tickets because these are independent events," Holmes said. "Family members are going to be influenced, so that they are likely to buy their tickets at the same place a sibling bought a winning ticket, wouldn't they?"
Suffice it to say that Kenan and Cindy Altunis got very lucky, indeed, which is certainly not lost on Cindy.
She said she had no lavish plans for what to do with the money. "Yes, I could go shopping for handbags and shoes and travel to foreign countries, and I probably will do some of that, but my only plan right now is to give back to my parents. If I wasn't visiting my parents that day in March, I would not have won. God has blessed my family in so many ways."
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