Posted by
Nerdus Maximus on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:18:04 AM
From the JP newswire:
For the first time in New York Lottery history lottery agents had to stop selling tickets because they ran out of blank tickets due to unexpected demand. Agents in Elmira were overwhelmed when participants at a convention supporting Evolution realized that the odds of winning the lottery were much higher than the odds of their own existence by evolutionary forces and began investing their life savings in lottery tickets. Te New York Lottery Commission responded quickly to the situation by sending a van with blank tickets to resupply the agents, but the surge in demand had ended when the conventioneers departed at the end of the conference. No effect is expected on other lotteries due to the small number of attendees at the convention, and their geographic distribution. None of the tickets sold in the flurry won enough money to require registration with the New York Lottery.