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A local Thai official employed a crane to go down into a sewer to retrieve a winning lottery ticket that a woman had mistakenly dropped.
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The group mentioned that they have been purchasing tickets regularly for years.

Chris Goldberg via Flickr Lotteries have often been called a tax on the poor and, alternately, a tax on the innumerate. There is something to both claims: Lottery tickets are disproportionately bought by lower-income people, and in aggregate the players win back only a small percentage of the money spent on tickets. Overall, lotteries suck […]