Stats: 5x More Likely to Die in Accident than Win Lottery

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Heard this one on the news today and had to pass it along.

If you drive one mile to purchase a lottery ticket and then drive back home again, you are five times more likely to be killed in an auto accident than to win today's big lottery.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Heard this one on the news today and had to pass it along.

If you drive one mile to purchase a lottery ticket and then drive back home again, you are five times more likely to be killed in an auto accident than to win today's big lottery.

:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: I need to tell this to my mother. She always goes on and on about the lottery.
 
So the lesson here is that one should buy five tickets per mile?

They also mentioned the likelihood of getting attacked by a shark. Now this seemed rather odd to me since it applies to someone in Ohio as well as Hawaii.
 
My mother only gets 1, i need to tell her to re-analyize her chances!
 

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