Woman wins half-million dollar lottery by accident!

The stories just keep coming from several bad actors in the dying fringe areas of news provision out there in the online sphere. I suppose we reach a certain point where no one is really looking at your stuff anymore and you'll take on any ol' advertisers that you can to keep the lights one

UPI used to be a seme-well-regarded source of news, nowadays I would be surprised if they even have any actual reporters. Their articles seem to be either provided for them or are written by a computer who doesn't care about repetition.

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I read an article recently entitled "Playing the Lottery is stupid. Even if you win, you lose" and there was a ton of truth in there about the statistical near-impossibility of winning and then statistics about nearly everyone that has ever won the lottery has ended up blowing all the money and often ending up in a worse situation than when before they won. That article was written by "Medium" who I guess still has a shred of accountability and dignity remaining.

UPI feels no such pressure to maintain any sort of journalistic integrity now as they really don't have an identity anymore. Their posts read like those free newspapers that would end up on your porch back in the days that was basically just a long advertisement and coupon book.

UPI's latest advertisement disguised as an actual news story comes yet again out of South Carolina. This time an unnamed women was just running and errand for her father, who also asked her to pick him up a lottery scratch ticket and she thought "what the hell, I'll buy a random $10 card for me for fun, hee-hee!"

Then the ticket turned out to be a jackpot winner because all the tickets in these news stories are jackpot winners.

The idea here is to create the illusion of constant victory in state lottos but if you have a couple of brains cells and a bit of life experience you are probably aware of the fact that almost no one other than the owner of the lottery actually wins the lottery.

The articles always go the same way: It's some random location with a street name that could be anywhere like "Broad Street" which was the street name in question for this particular article and the woman wanted anonymity so she is not named and neither is the store she bought it from.

Let me tell you something about store owners and lottery winners. When someone wins a big ticket at their store, the store gets a small piece of the winnings and they always want to be named because of the superstitious nature of the kind of people that play the lottery. They will become briefly famous and get a rush of new customers if someone wins big at their place and they always want to be named.

The fact that the store was no named just makes this look more like total horsefeathers.

As usual the "winner" has said that she is going to use the money for something really altruistic and responsible. She is going to use it to "help her family and put into savings." Sure Jan.

I don't believe that this prize was actually won. The lottery can identify markets that aren't doing as well as they would like to be stealing from and they invent these feel-good stories to encourage more purchasing.

If you tried to do this with some sort of product that you were selling you would be sued for false advertisement but when the government does it, there is no problem.

Don't play the lottery and don't believe the news!