BURNING MONEYThe state lottery in Florida has an alluring twist in its “Summer Cash” game: first prize is $250,000. But, some players say they would prefer the second prize: free gasoline for life. There is a catch – the second-place winner gets 26 gas cards per year, each valid for $100 worth of gas, until they die. To exceed the $250,000 first prize, winners would have to live more than 96 years, and that doesn’t even count the interest they could get on the $250,000 in cash. (New York Times) …Well, we already know lottery players are no good at math.Source: www.thisistrue.comWHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE…THAT’S A FELONYStephanie Martinez was at work at a pizza parlor in Denton, Texas, when a robber burst in. The gunman was impatient and slapped a clerk to hurry him up. The clerk hit the robber back, stunning the robber and knocking his disguise off. “I dropped the money,” Martinez remembers. “I said, ‘Don’t hit him again! That’s my dad!'” The robber ran out and jumped into a pickup truck where two accomplices were waiting. Police say Benjamin Ramirez, 41, was driven away from the scene by Sonia Palacios, 38, and Jose Miguel Martinez, 26 – Stephanie’s mother and stepfather; Ramirez is her father. All three were arrested. Police don’t believe Stephanie Martinez was involved in the crime, or knew her employer would be a target. (Denton Record-Chronicle) …Ramirez told police he chose the place because he heard Stephanie say many times that it “had tons of dough.”Source: www.thisistrue.comIn the last issue of the NFH, “11 rules for young people” was featured in Monkey Chronicles. Although the rules are widely attributed to a speech given by Bill Gates, a NFH reader wrote in that the actual author of the rules is Charles J. Sykes. Source: www.snopes.com
