11-03-2009, 03:59 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Location: Calgary,ab
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Airdrie man wins the lottery for the 5th time.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/sto...y-airdrie.html
Something seems fishy to me but the courts didn't find anything wrong so i guess he's just a realy lucky person 
19 million total winnings and now he's going to sue WLC for investigating his 5th prize of 17 million.
He claims it caused him mental anguish...i wish i had that sort of mental anguish.
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11-03-2009, 04:10 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Me too. Sounds very weird. I think it's sad that he's suing and claiming mental anguish. He's not hard up, clearly. 5 huge prizes in 5 years?
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11-03-2009, 04:14 PM
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Voluntary Lifetime Suspension
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With his winnings he probably just purchases another 15 000 tickets.
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11-03-2009, 04:20 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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I heard about this guy on the news this morning. They were interviewing him and he kept saying "I never get excited when I win" or something like that. Definitley sounds strange. Who wins that many big prizes numerous times? It defies all odds.
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11-03-2009, 04:20 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kelowna, B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DOK
Me too. Sounds very weird. I think it's sad that he's suing and claiming mental anguish. He's not hard up, clearly. 5 huge prizes in 5 years?
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No doubt, if he thinks that 5 wins including a 17 mil isn't out of the ordinary, I don't imagine he could survive with the "luck" that the other 33 million and change people in Canada have.
I hope he sues and fails and it costs him 17 million in court costs.
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11-03-2009, 04:29 PM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Nov 2007
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What a lucky man...if he wins his case of "mental anguish" I will laugh.
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11-03-2009, 04:31 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by Red_Baron
No doubt, if he thinks that 5 wins including a 17 mil isn't out of the ordinary, I don't imagine he could survive with the "luck" that the other 33 million and change people in Canada have.
I hope he sues and fails and it costs him 17 million in court costs.
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I suppose that's not that out of the ordinary if the guy buys 100 tickets per week. That's ridiculous. 
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11-03-2009, 04:32 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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Very fishy. What are the odds of winning the lottery five times?
Does this man sell tickets? There were cases in Ontario where vendors were stealing winning tickets from customers.
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11-03-2009, 04:35 PM
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When I read the article on the train this morning I thought something was fishy too.
The big reason the guy is upset is not because the WCLC investigated him, but because they refused to pay out because someone claimed that part of the jackpot was his because they were part of a group buy.
The weird thing was that the guy who claimed this was the brother in law of the owner of the place where the guy bought the winning ticket.
It all sounds a little fishy to me, but what are you gonna do?
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11-03-2009, 04:36 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kelowna, B.C.
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Or is he a middle man for one of these ticket stealing retailers seeing as they've come under fire in BC and Ontario?
I know that they heavily screen any retailer who has won a major lotto prize these days.
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11-03-2009, 04:37 PM
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One of the Nine
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Gets real fishy when it turns out that someone disputing it was related to the owner of the kiosk. Then he suddenly dropped the claim? Like, why? Maybe to stop an investigation into the kiosk?
edit - beaten by Shantz, but also to add that it's kinda weird that the owner throws her bro-in-law under the bus with comments about how he has problems.
Last edited by 4X4; 11-03-2009 at 05:00 PM.
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11-03-2009, 04:39 PM
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Franchise Player
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When this article first broke on the Calgary Herald website, some of the reader comments were pretty funny. One guy was saying how everyone should touch this man's robes in order to gain some luck. Other's wanted to eat him to gain his good fortune LOL.
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11-03-2009, 04:40 PM
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Missed the bus
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I can see why this guy's pissed. If you give him the benefit of the doubt, and just accept that he's won 5 times, then you have to understand where he's coming from.
If I had $17M owed to me and they held off paying for even a month, that interest adds up VERY fast.
Example: In a high interest savings account, (which is actually quite low,) you get about .75%/annum. /12 = .0625% per month. $17M * .0625% is $10,625.00 in interest each month!!
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11-03-2009, 04:42 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada!
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A third of the world starves while people in North America go through "mental anguish" over waiting longer to collect 17 million....sigh......
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11-03-2009, 04:44 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Winebar Kensington
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Originally Posted by Red_Baron
Or is he a middle man for one of these ticket stealing retailers seeing as they've come under fire in BC and Ontario?
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That's a plausible theory.
Even if you buy hundreds of tickets a week, the chances of winning five times are still miniscule.
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11-03-2009, 04:49 PM
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Not the one...
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Originally Posted by alltherage
I can see why this guy's pissed. If you give him the benefit of the doubt, and just accept that he's won 5 times, then you have to understand where he's coming from.
If I had $17M owed to me and they held off paying for even a month, that interest adds up VERY fast.
Example: In a high interest savings account, (which is actually quite low,) you get about .75%/annum. /12 = .0625% per month. $17M * .0625% is $10,625.00 in interest each month!!
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11-03-2009, 04:49 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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hmm.. I think its time for a kidnapping of some sort so I can gain some of that 17 mill that he sueing WCLC for. ahahhaah....
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11-03-2009, 05:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPepper
hmm.. I think its time for a kidnapping of some sort so I can gain some of that 17 mill that he sueing WCLC for. ahahhaah....
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LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.
JK. You fail.
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11-03-2009, 05:29 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver
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I would like to see a statiscian come up with the numbers to see the odds of this happening. I'm sure the dude buys thousands of tickets, but even so, the probability to win five times on prizes all over $50,000 has got to be astronimical.
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11-03-2009, 06:35 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Damn life sure is tough. Winning 17 million dollars, what a sad story.
People will complain about everything won't they!?
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