Disgruntled lottery losers say lady Yingluck, not lady luck, forging fate

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Disgruntled lottery losers say lady Yingluck, not lady luck, forging fate

Published: 3 Feb 2013 at 00.00
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The saying politics is a numbers game took on a bizarre new meaning on Friday when Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was accused by losing punters of fixing winning lottery digits to match the licence plate numbers of vehicles she owned.

The losing lottery players made the accusation after the latest lottery draw on Friday. The winning six-digit number for the jackpot was 565566 and the winning two-digit number was 66, which matched the last two digits of the registration plate number on the van in which Ms Yingluck travelled to Uttaradit for a mobile cabinet meeting last month.

And that was not the only such case of lottery and licence plate numbers lining up. Looking back the critics found similarities in seven previous draws since Ms Yingluck came to power. They alleged that the numbers were rigged so that lottery wins would be associated with the prime minister, thus boosting her appeal in a gambling happy nation.

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bluebottle
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Discussion 6 : 03 Feb 2013 at 21.416
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The numbers are 66 not 666 give it a rest.
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Discussion 5 : 03 Feb 2013 at 11.185
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D1 : Maybe that "someone" has been carried away by so many successful tax-evations,vote-buyings,abuse of powers,extrajudicial killings and countless other criminal acts,that this "someone" thought it would be interesting to add a little mysticism and create the illusion that he and his sister brings luck to people?
In less than 2 years though,Thais will have to face the reality that they did not,as the Country will likely be bankrupt.
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Discussion 4 : 03 Feb 2013 at 11.014
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#1 I agree with you 100%...just like stock brokers ...if they were as smart as they want you to believe ...why are they working?
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Discussion 3 : 03 Feb 2013 at 09.143
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If someone was smart enough to know how to rig the lottery, they would certainly be smart enough to pick numbers not associated with themselves in any possible way.

Same with these bi-weekly magazines that pick the winning numbers. If they knew how to pick winning numbers, they would play the lottery win a fortune and not have to publish a magazine. However, they do win twice a month from all the magazine buyers.
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Discussion 2 : 03 Feb 2013 at 08.332
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addicts of any kind always find someway to blame their problems on someone or something else ....it is only natural that since there are only 10 possible numbers that can come up in the
lottery and only 10 possible numbers in a plate that if you look hard enough you will find a match
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Discussion 1 : 03 Feb 2013 at 08.271
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"When you believe in things you don't understand, then you suffer. Superstition ain't the way."
Stevie Wonder
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