How to "win" with scratch cards

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How to "win" with scratch cards

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And of course it HAS to be a "KING".... :lol:

* In March, a Shell/Site convenience store manager in North
Naples, Fla., found employee Robert Lee King, 41, lying on the
floor rubbing off one not-yet-purchased lottery ticket after another,
looking for winners, stacking the used tickets neatly in two piles.
The incredulous manager said he tried to explain to King that that
isn't the way the lottery business works, whereupon King calmly
took his stack of winners and walked out. The manager called in a
sheriff's deputy, explained the problem, and showed the
surveillance tape of King with the tickets, and while the deputy was
writing his report, King happened to come back in to ask for his
paycheck. He was charged with grand theft.

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Post by Milu »

As opposed to the off-licences (politically correct and non racist MILU!) in London where they used lottery ticket readers to read winning scratch cards and only sold losing cards while cashing in the winners. Equipment has since been modified.
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Post by Blood_drinker »

Gambling ( whether state sanctioned ( i.e. legal )) is
not what it's cracked up to be -

The odds are stacked against the player from the get-go

And on one's like the three digit daily, the 1,000-to-one odds
the state should pay are actually 500-to-one

Take an old sage's advice -

http://www.Frank777.com

And don't get your hope's up too high at the OTB ; the "house" take's
18-25% off the top of your paramutual bet ; it is hence no longer the
"house" that's the "book", but the "players".

And, quite frankly, Teddy, I don't think you'd be too happy if it were
you that were arrested by the "bobbies".

I'll give you something else that's criminal ( even though "legal" )
the English banking system ( Andrew Jackson would've agreed :wink: )

I'm for Jacksonian democracy in America. :shock:

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Blood_drinker wrote: And, quite frankly, Teddy, I don't think you'd be too happy if it were
you that were arrested by the "bobbies".
I have in fact been arrested by our men in blue on numerous occasions ... one of which was at gunpoint (which is VERY worrying) and almost always found it to be irritating to say the least. :wink:

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How did you manage that Teddy? when the cop asked you if you were carrying a weapon , you pulled out your switchblade and opened it in all its glory ;)
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There are times when the ONLY sensible answers are; "yes sir, no sir, whatever you say sir" :wink:
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ktonix wrote:How did you manage that Teddy? when the cop asked you if you were carrying a weapon , you pulled out your switchblade and opened it in all its glory ;)
If you mean the bit about being arrested at gunpoint... no... I'm not as stupid as I look.... the bobbies had been told I was supplying the I.R.A. with weapons and quite naturally they took the opportunity to field test their entire S.W.A.T team... helicopter too... a chunk of the town was sealed off... and when I poked my nose ouside to see what was going on there were weapons pointing at me from all directions.... and when you've been for a lunchtime beer or several that has a rather sobering effect... :shock:

Mr. Vagrant,

Absolutely .... definitely... without a doubt.. though I have to confess I asked the guy pointing the 357 at me (he was the nearest and was the one shouting at me) what the bloody hell was goin' on... while puffin' away at the fag i'd got in my mouth.... (my hands were FIRMLY in the air... :D ) not yet realising the whole stupid stunt was because of me... :lol:

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Post by moe »

Sooo Teddy, were you supplying the Provos?

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I think, like any good gun collector, Teddy was supplying Himself but the authorities in "Merry Olde" have a problem with that :roll: The newspaper article did not mention the IRA.
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Vagrant wrote:I think, like any good gun collector, Teddy was supplying Himself but the authorities in "Merry Olde" have a problem with that :roll: The newspaper article did not mention the IRA.
Yeah... all that fuss for a manky old Beretta 1934 and a few hundred rounds of ammo.. :roll: ... they broke down every door in the place also.... even the ones that weren't locked... mos' pathetic.

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