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Indiana Man Cheated Out of $11.5 Million Dollar Jackpot
Indiana Man Cheated Out of $11.5 Million Dollar Jackpot
Charles Andrews, a 70 year old retired chemist, is suing a convenience store chain for over $11 million dollars claiming he was cheated out of a huge lottery jackpot after an employee at the store refused to sell him a lottery ticket. In his lawsuit Andrews claims he picked the winning numbers for a Hoosier lottery drawing in February 2008. He states that a clerk at the store refused to sell him a lottery ticket minutes before the official sales cutoff at 10:40 PM. Andrews said that the clerk told him the lottery terminal was not working and later printed out a list of winning numbers which proved the lottery terminal was actually working. The clerk told Andrews that the manager did not like to sell any lottery tickets after 10 PM and said that other store employees also refused to sell him a ticket. One of Andrew’s lawyers, Bob Burkett, stated, “They had an obligation to issue him a ticket because he was there before 10:40.”
Andrews is disabled and as a result could not get to another store on time and signed his play slip and left it at the store so he would have proof in case his numbers were winning ones. Andrews stated, “I knew if I walked out the door with the pay slip and I won any money at all with those numbers I couldn’t prove that was the pay slip I left with the employees.” Andrew’s lawyers are arguing that the store was legally obliged to sell him a ticket up to the official cutoff time. The suit was originally filed in Marion County Indiana but was transferred to federal court at the insistence of the Speedway Corporation, the owners of the store. Andrew’s suit accuses the Speedway store of breach of contract and negligence and seeks damages of $11.5 million dollars, the size of the jackpot, and punitive damages.
Speedway SuperAmerica LLC is arguing that they were under no obligation to sell the lottery ticket and are questioning Andrew’s version of events. Andrew’s attorneys are trying to access store security videos. A Hoosier lottery spokesman said that lottery retailers can set their own hours for selling tickets as long as they stop selling by the 10:40 PM cutoff time. Lottery spokeswoman Lucia Anderson stated, “It’s up to the individual retail location.” One of Andrew’s lawyers said the law is not clear and stated, “There is no statute addressing the retail hours and whether they can set it or not set it.” One of Andrew’s lawyers, Josh Brown said that the agreement between the lottery and retailers requires stores that sell lottery tickets to post game and date lists and believes that it should include hours of play.
This will be an interesting case to follow. The results of this case may force lottery retailers to clearly state their hours of operation. Hopefully Mr. Andrews will be awarded the jackpot he was cheated out of by an indolent clerk.
Practice With the Right Lottery System Wins the Lottery Game
“Practice” is one of the important determining factors for success – at least according to the book “Outliers: The Story of Success”. According to the author, to be successful, one needs to practise his/her skills for 10,000 hours. Does this sound easy? Definitely not as that would mean you have to practise your skill about 27 hours a day for one year, while what you have is only 24 hours a day! Or, you can continue to practise 40 hours a week for 250 weeks in order to be successful in your area. Does this sound daunting?? Of course it is! Do you want to go through the same process with so much hours before you succeed? I doubt so!
Well, at least what i can tell you is that the daunting and long hours of practice do not apply to formulas to win lottery. With the right system, some lottery players do not even need to practice at all to win lottery immediately. However, if you want to win the lottery consistently, practice regularly is the key. You have to “play” regularly and consistently. Every game you miss is a forever-lost winning opportunity.
A Chinese famous pianist Lang Lang once told the story how his father told him off for being late to piano lessons one day. The father made a very important remark which affected Lang Lang’s life and about the importance of time and opportunity which Lang Lang had missed and will never get back.
Practice makes perfect – that is the secret to everyone’s success. So, it is important for one to play lottery often, consistently and never miss a game of lottery. One must remember, time and opportunity lost could never be gained back.
A lottery player learnt this the hard way. His lottery numbers came up during the week which he did not play. Had he played consistently and regularly, the lottery would have given him a win of $1 million that could have solved all his financial problems. The disappointment was indeed a bitter blow. Once you miss out on a lottery game, the opportunity to win the lottery is gone forever. Unless you play, you’ll never know whether your numbers will win.
In short, you need to participate in each and every game. This is a simple yet essential step to win any lottery. Most importantly, you do not have to spend 10,000 hours to do it either! You can learn how to shortcut the time needed to win the lottery by using the 1-minute Silver Lotto System introduced by Ken Silver in 1991. Thousands of lottery winners in over 100 countries have benefited from the system and won prizes in more than 9 out of 10 games by using this lottery system.