On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:15:48 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> scott wrote:
>>> Yah. 20 seconds early or late and she'd still be alive and unharmed.
>> 
>> But for every person that gets something like this, there are thousands
>> who escaped by 5, 10, 20 seconds from death.  Just due to the huge
>> numbers of people on this planet, there will always be stories like
>> this, people who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
> 
> True...
> 
>> Don't forget, there's (roughly) a 1 in 14 million chance of winning a
>> lottery, yet still hundreds of people worldwide have this happen to
>> them every week...
> 
> Really? I thought it was actually quite unusual for anybody to win?
> (This is why they have so many rollover weeks.)
> 
> [As an aside, I always thought a rollover week was a particularly *bad*
> way to try to sell tickets. "Hey, everybody! Last week several million
> people bought a ticket and NOBODY WON! You should hand over all your
> money right away for your chance to not win this week's draw!"]

Depends on how you define a "win".  I used to play the Minnesota State 
Lottery years and years ago, and we "won" once (a group of us would go in 
together on a batch of tickets) - $10, only cost us $20 in tickets.

Jim

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