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I have read numerous accounts of people buying a lottery ticket, winning some money, and then leaving it in their pocket. Then they or their spouse washes the garment, and accidentaly destroys the lottery ticket. I believe one of these stories is available to read at darwinawards.com in the personal
accounts section.
That would be funny, but you wouldn't want it to happen to you. Especially if the ticket would have won you 50,000 (dollars, pounds).
So make the tickets with waterproof paper and waterproof ink and never fear of losing your winning ticket in the wash.
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Smart card lottery tokens? |
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I think most lotteries count on this very thing happening as part of their business model. |
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Given that the Darwin Awards are for people who have taken themselves out of the gene pool (or striven mightily to do so), I have a lot of trouble believing that story. |
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I favor the Premium Bond mechanism, where purchasers are registered, and tickets cannot be lost at all. |
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why not just make the *winning* tickets waterproof? |
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Urm it was a personal account, not a darwin award. |
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[po], Then I'd just run into the ticket shop with a bucket of water and ransack the place. |
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This is quite darwin, [DrCurry], if you consider the fact that someone stupid enough to wash their ticket dosen't deserve the money. Its natural selection at its best. |
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the tickets are safe inside the machine, silly. |
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Searching darwinawards.com, neither lottery nor ticket finds the story. Maybe they rotate the personal accounts from time to time or something. |
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Maybe. I remember this story though, the guy went in the shower and the wife washed the shirt, losing them something like $1,800. |
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Making them waterproof would make them more durable in landfills too, and that's where 99.999999999999999% of them will end up. At least right now, they are recyclable. |
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Maybe make it an option. $1 for a regular ticket, $1.50 for a waterproof ticket. That would make the tragedy deeper for the fool who not only bought a lottery ticket, and washed it, but failed to pay for the waterproof option. |
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why would they, it costs less to make it out of regular paper and it can save them even more if someone dose loose a ticket |
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Moose, your name well describes both your reading skill and your writing ability. Read the second annotation, the one by Laimak, and do try to understand it. |
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I'm starting to see a market for waterproof ticket-keepers. Little plastic boxes, with seals and latches and beepers, should keep tickets safe and located. |
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ahem, *little bb*, is that a nice way to treat a new halfbaker feeling their way around for the first time? |
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