From the Las Vegas Sun: The line started forming early Thursday, with hundreds of people showing up at sunrise at the Primm Valley Lotto Store for a chance — albeit a miniscule one — to turn $1 into half a billion dollars.
Over the next several hours, the line swelled to more than 1,000 people, each anxiously awaiting the chance to buy a ticket for the record $540 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot — which grew to $640 million as of Friday morning.
“Everybody’s out here for the same reason. It’s all about the money,” said Tina Webler, a North Las Vegas resident who arrived at 7:30 a.m., half an hour before the lottery store opened.
The lottery lunacy was in full effect by midday, with people eating lunch, reading books and fastidiously filling out lottery tickets as they waited in a line that snaked around the store and out around the parking lot of the adjacent outlet mall.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/mar/30/primm-hundreds-line-chance-win-incomprehensible-am/
Channel 13 said that the store in Primm is the busiest lottery store in the United States and my guess 99% of the players are from Nevada. This money is leaving Nevada and going to California and Arizona.
There is no evidence that the lottery harms the local casinos, who are the biggest opponents of the lottery in Nevada.
So, maybe it is time to add the lottery to the list of gaming games Nevada offers.
Sunrise — 7:01.
8 hours ago
We went to Rosie's Den in Arizona. Though there was a line there for this drawing, there almost never is. And now that the Hoover Dam bypass is open, it's a nice drive. Rosie's place mostly burned down, so I like going there. Hopefully this big week will help them rebuild.
ReplyDeleteAgree on the lottery in Nevada, by the way. 100%. But it's in the state constitution. Piggy back repeal with anti-gay marriage repeal, and we could bring a lot of cash to the state.
Say that I live in a state such as Nevada or Arkansas that has no state lotto. If I cross the border to another state and buy, say, a Mega Millions lottery ticket and that ticket wins the jackpot, am I still able to claim the prize? How does that work? Am I just as entitled to it since I bought the ticket?
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