Woman Hits new York Lottery twice!
 

WTF!:pimp What are the odds on that?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060910/...lottery_winner

sure beats lightning

oh man and still works at a deli

Yaaa i saw that!

She probably spent the first million trying to win the second mil...

:1orglaugh

Overall, her chances of winning both games were a slim 1 in 3,669,120,000,000.

lol smartass response ;-)

That's crazy :)

I probably spend 1000 bucks a year, buying lottery tickets and maybe... maybe win $20.

Some people get all the luck :(

I been playing the California Lotto ever since it began:helpme

no actually thats pretty stupid because thats using the assumption she bough one ticket each time.... and we know that did not happen

To know her true odds you would need to know how many tickets were sold, how many she actually bought and the overal odds of her tickets or anyones ticket hitting the actual number drawn.

I suck at math all I care about when I read about this is what is that ladies telephone number and would she like some FRED ;)

Not so stupid..
She could have bought 10 tickets and the odds of any of them winning remain the same.. regardless of the overall odds..

want to see someone really fucking lucky?

click here

"The prize will be paid out in $50,000 installments over 20 years"
everybody who knows a bit about the present / future value of money knows she is being ripped off heavily
she should sue the state unless those terms where stated on the ticket she bought

What in all hell does that have to do with anything?

Consider the tax hit on a $1M lump sum pmt,
She pays 25% on $50,000 / yr or 35% on $1M (Federal only.. plus state)

Inflatation is what 10% per year everything doubles in a decade
So you're still right, it is a fuckover
I don't know if you can sell a lottery "annuity"

NO thats not how lottery works :)

out of lets say one million tickets 1 is a winning one ...are u telling the ods are the same if u buy one or one million? :1orglaugh :pimp

PWNED?

U do realize thos are scratch off lottery tickets?

dam thats lucky

smells like a setup publicity stunt imo

the odds are impossible......in the trillions

LOL, I don't rule anything out!:pimp

wow thats lucky..

Actually she probably chose to be paid over the 20 years. The way most lotteries work if you take the cash upfront the prize is significantly smaller, and that's before taxes. To get the full prize value you have to choose the annual payout, then pay the tax assessed on those annual payouts.

lucky plucky

she's so lucky

that is cool, I played a few weeks ago and won $200, I was happy to donate to my savings account....lol

wow, that's something you surely don't see everyday!!

true, and plus...it was scratch tickets...

I'd be happy with half her luck.

That's insane....

Good for her! Now if only I could get a little of that luck. LOL

That's karma. Look what she did with her first $1mil winnings; she bought a house for each of her 3 kids AND kept her job. Now, she can retire early with plenrty of cash.

she's really lucky...wish i could have even just a little share of her luck

It always comes in threes :pimp

she's pretty damn lucky...

I hope she stops buying tickets and give us our chance to win. :(