SilentSpic
09-12-2002, 06:27 AM
ALBANY, N.Y. On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York City, a date often and reductively repeated as simply 9-11, the evening numbers drawn in the New York Lottery were 911.
''The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same protocols,'' said Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. ''It's just the way the numbers came up.''
Lottery officials wouldn't know until Thursday morning how many people played that number or the payout for winning, Hapeman said.
Geoff Cook, a clerk at an Albany-area convenience store, said that interest in playing 9-1-1 was high since Monday. ''I probably sold 20 to 25 tickets myself,'' he told the Times Union of Albany.
Another Albany-area clerk, Farzad Khosravi, said, ''I think some people were disgusted with the idea of playing that number because it represents a black day in the history of America.''
He said some seemed reluctant about betting and possibly winning on the wings of tragedy.
The liability limit for the midday and evening draws is $10,000 in sales, Hapeman said.
On any given day, 7-10 sets of numbers are ''closed out,'' she said. At some point on Tuesday, the 911 combination for both draws had reached its limit.
Hapeman said Wednesday was the first time in more than a year that the 911 combination came up.
The state lottery uses numbered balls circulating in a machine in a studio at the Lottery office. For the evening numbers game, three levers are pressed, and three balls are randomly brought up into tubes and then displayed on top.
''It's the same protocol we use in each and every one of our drawings,'' Hapeman said.
Report from: 1010wins.com
It was planned all along... don't ask me how, but it was.
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''The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same protocols,'' said Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. ''It's just the way the numbers came up.''
Lottery officials wouldn't know until Thursday morning how many people played that number or the payout for winning, Hapeman said.
Geoff Cook, a clerk at an Albany-area convenience store, said that interest in playing 9-1-1 was high since Monday. ''I probably sold 20 to 25 tickets myself,'' he told the Times Union of Albany.
Another Albany-area clerk, Farzad Khosravi, said, ''I think some people were disgusted with the idea of playing that number because it represents a black day in the history of America.''
He said some seemed reluctant about betting and possibly winning on the wings of tragedy.
The liability limit for the midday and evening draws is $10,000 in sales, Hapeman said.
On any given day, 7-10 sets of numbers are ''closed out,'' she said. At some point on Tuesday, the 911 combination for both draws had reached its limit.
Hapeman said Wednesday was the first time in more than a year that the 911 combination came up.
The state lottery uses numbered balls circulating in a machine in a studio at the Lottery office. For the evening numbers game, three levers are pressed, and three balls are randomly brought up into tubes and then displayed on top.
''It's the same protocol we use in each and every one of our drawings,'' Hapeman said.
Report from: 1010wins.com
It was planned all along... don't ask me how, but it was.
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"Brought to you courtesy of Aggie Productions" FS
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