Doesn't this just chap your a**..............
Valarie Wilson, a 56 year old Grandmother from Long Island, NY last month hit the NY State Lottery...for $1,000,000
.....FOR THE SECOND TIME IN FOUR YEARS!!!!!!!
Yup, in 2002, she hit $1m...then this month, hit for another $1m.
All I want is something more than a damn playback, and this old lady is hitting twice!!!!!
There is no justice.
.....FOR THE SECOND TIME IN FOUR YEARS!!!!!!!
Yup, in 2002, she hit $1m...then this month, hit for another $1m.
All I want is something more than a damn playback, and this old lady is hitting twice!!!!!
There is no justice.
posted by Big Rick at 2:06 PM
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Just in case your post didn't rub everyone's nose in it, here's the story from Long Island Newsday (I may be sick.................):
"Double checked
Delicatessen worker from N. Babylon keeps her cool and millions after winning her 2nd scratch-off jackpot
BY CARL MACGOWAN
Newsday Staff Writer
September 9, 2006
Her boss might be the biggest loser. But Valerie Wilson is the biggest winner.
The North Babylon deli worker, whose boss is a contestant on NBC's "The Biggest Loser," became a millionaire last month when she won the New York State Lottery's Jubilee scratch-off game.
But winning a million bucks is old hat for Wilson. She's done it twice. "The first time I couldn't believe it," Wilson said Friday. "This time I said, 'God's on my side.'"
Four years after winning the top prize in the Cool Million scratch-off game, lightning struck a second time for the 56-year-old grandmother from North Babylon. One of the four $10 tickets she bought on Aug. 30 came up a winner, she said. She'll receive $50,000 a year for 20 years.
"I lost my husband in 1993, so I went to the cemetery and thanked him," Wilson said. "I figured he had something to do with it."
Fame seems as ordinary as a bologna sandwich at Emma's Deli and Catering, where Wilson is a clerk. Store owner Erik Chopin will compete on NBC's popular weight-loss reality series, which has its season premiere Sept. 20.
Chopin said striking it rich didn't change Wilson's routine.
"I was surprised the next day when she came to work," he said. "We were saying, 'How can someone win twice?' But good things happen to good people."
The odds of winning Jubilee's million-dollar prize is 1 in 705,600. The odds of winning Cool Million were 1 in 5.2 million before the game was discontinued after Wilson won.
That means that before she won the first time, her odds of winning both games, as independent events, were a whopping 3,669,120,000,000 to 1.
A lottery spokeswoman confirmed Wilson won a cool million in 2002, but would not verify her second jackpot until a news conference is held. Wilson would be the third repeat millionaire in state lottery history, the spokeswoman said. More than 1,900 people have won $1 million or more since the first such winner in 1976.
Wilson had just sold her Lynbrook deli when she first won on Sept. 18, 2002. She spread the wealth by buying homes for each of her three children.
"I gave away all my money," Wilson said. Well, not all of it. "I lied," she said. "I bought myself a convertible."
Two years ago, Chopin hired her when he opened Emma's, where Wilson makes sandwiches and rings up sales. She bought the winning ticket two doors down at Roopam Cards and Gifts, where she buys about $40 worth of tickets weekly. At first, she misread the ticket: "I thought I won a hundred thousand dollars."
Wilson said lottery officials will hold a news conference next week. She plans to move to Pennsylvania. For now, she will keep working until December, when Chopin returns from "The Biggest Loser."
Unlike last time, she'll use her winnings to pamper herself. "This one is going to be for me," she said. "I'm going to live a little bit."
WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
American mother giving birth to identical twins without fertility drugs: 1 in 39
Same mother giving birth to identical twins twice in a lifetime without fertility drugs: 1 in 70,000
Catching a ball at a Major League Baseball game: 1 in 563
Catching a second ball in the same game with the same-size crowd: 1 in 316,000
Any two people in a gathering of 25 having the same birthday: 1 in 2
Drawing a straight flush in five-card poker: 1 in 72,200
Drawing a straight flush in two consecutive hands: 1 in 5,212,840,000
Being injured by a chain saw: 4,464 to 1
Finding a four-leaf clover: 10,000 to 1
Becoming a pro athlete: 22,000 to 1
Hole-in-one: 33,000 to 1
Spotting a UFO: 3 million to 1
Winning California lottery: 13 million to 1
Meteor landing on your house: 182 trillion to 1
Being struck by lightning:
1 in 3,000
Being struck by lightning twice:
1 in 9 million
Becoming president:
10 million to 1
Becoming a saint:
20 million to 1
Dating a supermodel: 88,000 to 1
Dating a millionaire:
215 to 1
SOURCES: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MULTIPLE BIRTHS, FUNNY2.COM, LONG ISLAND HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER
Copyright 2006 Newsday Inc."
NOW, don't you ALL feel better???
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