Friday, October 12, 2007

The Creative Dutch: Suit Filed Over Lottery-Loss Stress

You'll never believe this, but I'm going to tell you anyway. A Dutch woman has filed a lawsuit against the "National Postcode Lottery" of the Netherlands. Helene de Gier has challenged that they caused her undue "emotional distress from not winning." Other minor details include that fact that she never actually entered the lottery.

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird cites the relevant AP article thus:

"That particular lottery picks a geographic postal code at random and awards prizes to all of its residents who have entered that lottery. Since so many of her neighbors were flaunting prizes, she felt particularly humiliated, she says. (Seven people on her street won the equivalent of about $18 million each, according to a June Associated Press dispatch.) [International Herald Tribune-AP, 6- 20-07]"

I would cite the rest of the original article at length, but I am feeling stressed out -- all of a sudden -- from not winning on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." This, as we know, can be downright debilitating, so I may have to sue Alex Trebec, in a Cuban court, to get my money. Can you litigate non-sequiturs in Cuba? Or is that just a Dutch thing?

Nevermind. Just have the post office send me my hundred million.

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