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$13.5M-winning lottery ticket bought 7 seconds late invalid, top court decides
A Quebec man who bought a winning lottery ticket seven seconds too late has lost his Supreme Court of Canada bid to appeal a decision that has denied him half of the $27-million prize. "I'm going to be very very honest with you … I'm very disappointed in this decision," said Joel Ifergan of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, from Montreal's West Island.
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Talk about lucky and unlucky at the same time.
Unfortunate but there's a cutoff for a reason
OUCH!
Rules are rules, end of story.
Next time buy it in advance, not last second... this isnt horse racing.
I went to a horse racing event once and it was intense.. good times.
Horse racing is awesome, but also extremely addictive. I stay the hell away from these types of games.
Would suck if the machine screwed up and extended the connection when running the ticket purchase, etc. If the lottery corp doesn't want tickets being sold after the deadline, why not force the ticket machine to validate the transaction instead of spitting out a proper ticket for THAT draw. I don't get it, its not like the guy waited until the very last second to do it.