Sometimes a paper comes out with a front page story that does not seem to justify all the screaming headlines, the hype, and the effort. That is the first impression given by today’s Sun splash, as obedient Murdoch doggie Andrew “Nosey” Parker brings readers “LOTTERY EXCLUSIVE … THE £33M QUESTIONS”. Yes, the Sun has decided it is a fit and proper body to adjudicate on National Lottery claims.
[UPDATE 27 January 0940 hours: the Sun just cannot let this story go, to the event that it has put it on the front page for a second day, showing what it claims to be the laundered Lottery ticket with the headline "NOT THE FULL TICKET"
The analysis of the "Gran's tatty printout" also notes that the identifying number of the ticket is not merely absent, but that it has been "Conveniently obliterated", just to make sure readers know what to think. Those readers are also reminded that we're talking about a "German Gran".
How the Sun got their sight of the alleged winning ticket is not clear - did money change hands? But what readers do not have pointed out to them is that if Lottery organisers Camelot have sufficient doubts, they will not pay out.
That is their business, and theirs alone. Meanwhile, the Sun's obsessive pursuit of someone mainly because they were born in Germany continues. Not that they're a bunch of bigots, you understand]
10 comments:
They would do better to question someone who definitely won the lottery by using aliases who went by the name of Fox, Green or was it Shapps?
If someone like Jeremy NaughtieWord can win a prize seat in a No 10 Downing Street Cabinet Reshuffle it seems obvious that the names must be drawn out of a hat located possibly in a News Corp office. It's probably the Bullyingdon Way of Doing Things.
The Mail is having ago at her for having six points on her licence. No, I don't see the relevance either.
Not that I feel much sympathy for her. Hundreds have claimed the prize without courting press coverage.
Nothing too new here. I remember back in 1994 the 'outrage' over the first jackpot winner being of Pakistani origin (from west Yorkshire I think). Lots of comments about one of 'them' winning 'our' money, questions along the lines of 'are that lot allowed to gamble?' and many others not getting the concept of random chance.
You can always count on the Scum cowards to go after the little people.
But ask them to go after, say, Canary Wharf banker thieves or Yank oligarchs and they run a mile to hide behind Aunty Murdoch's skirts.
Gutless doesn't begin to describe it.
Far be it from me to appear to suggest that the gutter press might actually be onto something, but I'd lay very large odds that this person is the genuine winner, whatever their nationality is. Their story has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese. The ticket "accidentally" went into the wash, allowing just the bits with the numbers on to be seen. Oh yeah? Now we hear that they sent their damaged ticket to Camelot for verification by post. Well obviously, you have a ticket which is worth £33m so the safest and most secure way to get it there is to chuck it in the post, and hope the Royal Mail don't manage to lose it. LMFAO.
I'd lay much shorter odds that she gets done for fraud. At least she's had her fifteen minutes of fame.
The only thing the gutter press is onto is the gutter.
The Sun is a rag, and picking on the woman's nationality is the norm for this gutter rag. But the woman has form, she ripped off someone in my family, so this is probably a scam as well
Seeing quite a few articles involving comments lifted from Facebook.
That's when they aren't stealing photos of people and doctoring them.
Something else they will get a kicking for.
You'll never catch me data mining and being generally idiotic.
There is a rumour circulating that I have told Somebody when I was drunk that Alex my partner does naughty stuff.
Another effort to swindle the lottery money; far fetched arguments. Keeping up with the lottery results regularly I do not remember any news saying that the pot was paid out to the spoiled ticket. Still on the other hand the story gives another reason to play online, Icelotto review. At least the ticket will be safe, huh?
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