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Six $1 Million Lottery Prizes Won at Same Louisiana Gas Station

Six $1 Million Lottery Prizes Won at Same Louisiana Gas Station

AP

After Mega Millions mania engulfed the country last month, one Louisiana gas station defied all conventional lottery odds and sold six winning $1 million prizes this week.

According to Baton Rouge CBS affiliate WAFB-TV, a 52-year-old man spent six dollars on a lottery ticket in Watson, La., playing the same five numbers but choosing a different Mega Ball number each time and filling in the “multiplier” box.
He won three times for a total of $750,000, which quadrupled to $3 million when the correct multiplier ball dropped.

In a twist, WAFB reported the winning ticket was accidentally printed twice and bought by a second customer several hours later.

Lottery officials said the original customer claimed his winnings Wednesday, according to the station. The second ticket-holder has not yet come forward.

Comments (34)

  • Freebird
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 1:33pm

    The winner should be careful.The next thing you know they’ll be mauled by a polar bear and a regular bear in the same day

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  • Hipnotiklee
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:43am

    How often do you think, “Hey I’ll take 3 chances on these 3 sets of same numbers, only changing the megaball. As I fill out my card, am so sure about them that I will add the extra dollar to multiply my winnings.?” Then somehow this card ACCIDENTLY gets run thru the machine again by the clerk? They are not able to cancel it, so they hope to sell it to someone or thru major accounting they MAY recover it. Personally, I have always thought the mob has run the lottory games, maybe this time someone just got a lil sloppy.

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  • mike_trivisonno
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:52am

    The Lotteries are rigged.

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    • forthepeople
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:48am

      and I have some land south of the keys to sell you ! Do you even think before writing ? or did you confuse it with publisher clearinghouse ?

      Report Post » forthepeople  
  • grannyrecipe
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 6:45am

    I wonder if they were Irish.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 5:25am

    Luck… is the idea of an Improbable OutCome; Winning is about a Success… where others Fail; Lottery is about the Selecting a Limited number of Lucky Winners. So. a Lottery Winner is really no different from Selling the Winning Ticket… and it has nothing to do with Logic, Averages, nor Justice!

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  • Cruelnunusual
    Posted on April 15, 2012 at 3:58am

    Not possible, somebody’s rigging the game.

    Report Post » Cruelnunusual  
  • ghostsouls
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 10:52pm

    Well if the person before picked the winning numbers, and the ticket was accidentally reporduced and sold, shouldn’t it belong to the person who actually picked the numbers, because that person would not have chosen the same numbers, just saying…..

    Report Post » ghostsouls  
    • Gorp
      Posted on April 14, 2012 at 11:08pm

      That is why I always buy any misprinted tickets when I buy mine. You never can tell. It hasn’t worked yet but I can still hope.

      Although, I have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.

      Report Post » Gorp  
  • South Philly Boy
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 10:35pm

    Well I’ll be a Son Of Gun… Hope you don’t mind Will

    Report Post » South Philly Boy  
  • Zcat
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 8:37pm

    Shouldn’t these winning ticket be spead out into other states not just going to one?

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    • EP46
      Posted on April 15, 2012 at 6:39am

      No, the money should be taken from the winner and given to all the people who lost. We can not have winners in this society….we must spread the wealth…especially to losers.

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  • BlueSteel
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 6:16pm

    What are the odds? It’s uncanny.

    Report Post » BlueSteel  
  • Rebel9
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 3:48pm

    I have been to this story a thousand times and never bought lottery tickets. Its usually beer. Looks like I’ve been wasting my money on the wrong vice.

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  • Magyar
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 2:50pm

    The odds of this happening at the same gas station is higher than actually winning the lottery! It doesn’t pass the smell test!

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  • Fishmanone
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 2:39pm

    It was Bush’s fault!!!

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 2:27pm

    Interesting statistical occurrence. Now if it happens again at the same place….then suspicion is relevant.

    Congratulations to both winners!

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 2:23pm

    Lotteries are just as rigged as are the multitudes of slot machines in gambling establishments. They used to change the weighting in the reels of the old fashioned slot machines to get the payout results the house wanted. Nowadays they use computer algorithms and do the same thing but with greater ease. Sometimes there is a glitch and machines give a payout that was unexpected. Funny how the gaming commission here in Nevada almost always sides with the house against the players. It will be interesting to see the outcome here.

    Report Post » JP4JOY  
  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 1:59pm

    See, the actual man who had the number of a man Six hundred three score and six, has long since come and gone, and that number didn’t actually appear, but that it represents the fruit of the man. We are currently in the age of Satan deceiving people, and Satan is actually using the number 6, or 666, but it’s complete bull-crap, because Heaven and earth has faded away, and so people don’t even understand what 666 means, and so they throw the number around as if the number itself has meaning. Getting digitized money means nothing, and even getting a bar-code on your hand would mean nothing, because the mark in the forehead and hand has already happened long ago. It just means [ for who you do thinking for, and for who you do work for].

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 14, 2012 at 2:21pm

      Let me put it this way: if you walk around saying to crucify the flesh, instead of saying that you ought to be crucifying a portion of your spirit, then you are all about the number ‘ 6.’

      Report Post » Itsjusttim  
    • hcartexas
      Posted on April 14, 2012 at 3:00pm

      Youre a freakin ******.

      Report Post » hcartexas  
  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 1:49pm

    Six tickets, that’s interesting, and it was printed twice that’s even more interesting. So now someone is going to come forward with the duplicate, and the government will (oh too bad) be forced into deciding who the winner should be. Of course the reality is that the number “6” means nothing inasmuch as only a number. But people without understanding use the number six just as expected to indicate the sign of the times.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on April 14, 2012 at 1:59pm

      hey moron

      anyone can play any number …………..they are BOTH winning tickets

      Report Post » Psychosis  
    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 14, 2012 at 2:11pm

      Psychosis,
      Wow, a little extreme reaction on your part don’t you think? I guess you just don’t like people knowing what you do before you do it.

      Report Post » Itsjusttim  
    • GrumpyCat
      Posted on April 14, 2012 at 11:14pm

      On a lot of these machines you can elect to let the machine chose the numbers. Apparently this one chose the same suite of numbers twice.

      When programming is that sloppy on machines which handle something valuable such as millions of dollars, you have to fear the electronic voting machine.

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  • spirited
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 1:48pm

    ….and who’s gonna count the presidential votes ?

    Report Post » spirited  
  • kickagrandma
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 1:36pm

    Excuse me. What are the chances of this ever happening in real life?

    Oh, boy, more of the noman’s stash leaking out…..

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  • leftcoastslut
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 1:32pm

    the second ticket was a mistake? seems fishy to me. could there also be corruption in the lottery system.

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  • whatthecrazy
    Posted on April 14, 2012 at 1:32pm

    Some people are just lucky that way,me?if it was’nt for bad luck i would not have any luck at all .Go figure

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