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Old 11-26-2002, 07:17 PM  
volante
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I can remember seeing in TV about an Australian guy who was really down on his luck (in the space of a year a close family member died, he got cancer and his wife left him) who decided he might as well buy a lottery scratchcard.

He bought one, and won a car.

The local TV news found out about this, and decided to do a story on him. As part of the story, they decided to do a reconstruction of his win, so they asked him to buy another scratchcard while they videotaped him.

He bought another scratchcard, and won $250,000...
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