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From: jlh@loral.UUCP (A Casual Observer)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Stupid people rule the world
Message-ID: <943@loral.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 21:58:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: loral.943
Posted: Thu Oct 10 21:58:27 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Oct-85 01:24:28 EDT
Organization: The Manhatten Project
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Keywords: lottery IQ=3


Jeez, this is rediculous.  For some background, the California State
lottery started last week, and the idea is to rub off 6 little squares
and if the dollar amount in 3 of the squares match you win that much
money.  Under the 6 little squares a rectangle marked 'VOID IF REMOVED'.
So what do people do?  They remove them!  Now if you've lost already
no sweat.  But there are so many people turning in winning tickets with
the VOID IF REMOVED square removed that the state is now redeeming them.
Now I ask you, if you had a $5,000 winning ticket, would you remove
the part that says VOID IF REMOVED.  Not I.  No way.  Uh uh.  Wouldn't
go near it.  But one guy did!  Not to mention the people doing likewise to
their $2 - $100 dollar winners.

Maybe I'm a cruel person, but to me if you scrape off the VOID IF REMOVED
part of your $5,000 lottery ticket, I think your face should be on the
front of national newspapers with the headline 'IS THIS THE DUMBEST GUY
IN THE WORLD?'  The National Enquirer would run 'BOY IN LOWER WISCONSIN
HAS A GERBIL WITH A LOWER IQ THAN THIS MAN'.   I mean Jesus Christ in
Beirut.  Why does the state go out of it's way to encourage stupidity like
this?  Huh?


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