PA lottery # this evening...666

[PaDUer]

http://www.palottery.state.pa.us/

Call this a coincidence or what...I near flipped when I went to check the numbers.
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Does anyone want to try to explain this one?

[LibraLiz1973]

1. THAT IS CREEPY

[zbdent]

2. So, what is Nick Perry doing these days?

I guess that they could release the entire series of "Bowling For Dollars" on DVD . . . why not? They're releasing everything else . . .

[Deja Q]

3. The ultimate in April Fool jokes? And did PA vote * in 2004?

[PaDUer]

5. Remember the year after 911

911 came up on the anniversary of this tragedy in NY...and I believe it came up a second time. Too many eery things going on in these times since the end of 2000.

[October]

19. We are a blue state. eom

[DistressedAmerican]

4. NOT A COINCIDENCE!

We are surrounded be signs that this guy's re-election IS the seventh sign!

[BuyingThyme]

6. 666..Doesnt' that have something to do with

Rick Santorum?

[PA Democrat]

7. Santorum's back in town? n/t

[femme.democratique]

8. Chicago, 12/25/2004 Evening Pick 3--666

http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=lottery+666&toggle=1&ei=UTF-8&u=www.suntimes.com/output/lottery/cst-nws-lot26s1.html&w=lottery+666&d=BBBF6ECCED&icp=1&.intl=us

[Just Me]

9. Silly. Didnja' know the "interpreters" messed up? It's "555"!!! n/t

[Junkdrawer]

10. I thought Nick Perry died last year....

For non-Pittsburghers....

The Trip Six Fix "666". When the PA Lottery was fixed by Nick Perry many years ago... they bet a bunch of money on 6-6-6, and whadda know, it came up that night!

http://www.pittsburghese.com/glossary.ep.html?type=other

[PaDUer]

11. I beblieve there was another event

that occurred like this...I believe someone w/ the lottery injected one of the balls w/ water so it wasn't able to bounce up in the machine...was an inside job..

[Junkdrawer]

13. That was "Dialing for Dollars" Nick Perry...

BTW: They chose "666" because the lottery always gets hammered when 666 hits and they wanted to be lost in the crowd.

[6000eliot]

15. I thought it was latex paint. N/T

[PaDUer]

17. The amounts paid out on 666 this evening...

http://www.palottery.state.pa.us/lottery/PALotto/payOut.asp?i=53915

Fri, April 1, 2005
Daily Number: 666
$0.50 Straight bet pays $250.00
$0.50 Boxed bet pays $0.00
14,625 winners for a total of $3,612,600.00

[Junkdrawer]

21. Yep. Compare that to...

http://www.palottery.state.pa.us/lottery/PALotto/payOut.asp?i=53897

Tues, March 29, 2005
Daily Number: 849
$0.50 Straight bet pays $250.00
$0.50 Boxed bet pays $40.00
1,279 winners for a total of $131,630.00

[Junkdrawer]

14. PS: Nick and the boys used paint in all the other numbers...

and, when the officials reviewed the video replays, it was tres obvious... ;)

[Junkdrawer]

22. Here's the Wikipedia on Perry and 666...

In 1977, Perry became the host of the live nightly broadcast of the Pennsylvania Lottery, which was then held in the studios of WTAE in Pittsburgh. On the night of April 16, 1980, more than six million viewers watched as Nick Perry pulled “666" as the winning number. Lottery authorities and local bookmakers became suspicious when a handful of players came forward to claim $1.8 million of the then record $3.5 million payout.

During the investigation, state officials concluded that Perry, Pennsylvania Lottery official Edward Plevel, WTAE art director Joseph Bock, WTAE stagehand Fred Luman, and brothers Peter and Jack Margos (Perry’s business partners) had conspired to rig the lottery drawing. The scheme was accomplished by weighting most of the numbered ping-pong balls with white latex paint so that only those with the numbers 4 or 6 were light enough to be drawn out by the lottery machine. A grand jury was called and charges were brought against all 6 men. Plevel was convicted and spent two years in prison. Bock and Luman pleaded guilty in exchange for lighter sentences. The Margos brothers avoided jail time by agreeing to testify against Perry.

...

In Pennsylvania, the number 666 is still often referred to as a “Nick Perry” and the lottery rigging as the "trip six fix".


http://www.answers.com/topic/nick-perry#Wikipedia

[Horse with no Name]

12. Be careful

I had some folks flame me cause I saw some coincidences,lol.
:shrug:

[kerrywins]

16. Its an april fool's joke...

plain and simple.

[Dookus]

18. It should occur

approximately one out of every thousand draws. How does it differ from 123 or 999 or any other number?

[Az]

20. Add to that

the number of different drawings every day. It kind of becomes interesting when certain numbers don't show up.

But of course the issue that is going to tweak everyone is the tie in to the Pope. But then again one has to ask what PA has to do with the Pope. And again the fact that numerous such numbers are draw every day. To not find such a coincidence would be suspicious.

[drummer55]

23. silly silly superstitous humans...no wonder were a bunch of fuckups.

its stupid number written in a politicaly directed book that was written by humans that talks about other Gods and Unicorns for crying out loud.

I hope the human race grows up sometime.