IndianaTheShepherd

Don't you mean he said, "hello there..."

I read an article about this yesterday and also heard a story on NPR radio. Did you really have to hire a local hunter to kill one for identification? Why couldn't you have trapped it or used a tranquilizer?

A couple of questions from someone who never plays the lottery...

1. What is a "No-lose lottery"?
2. What is a "Prize-linked Savings account"?

My grandmother was addicted to gambling, whether that be Bingo night, Lotto, or Scratch-offs... It drove me crazy to see someone on a fixed income with zero savings wasting money on something with such horrible odds... Seemed so illogical. I understand that lotteries are beneficial to governments as a form of raising revenue, but it raises that revenue from the people who can least afford to pay it, rather than just taxing the wealthy...

1. How does that even work? If you can enter for free, where does the prize money come from? Lotteries work because if 99.99999% of people lose, their money is what provides for the prize money as well as the additional revenue to support the State government/Schools/Shop that sold the ticket.
2. Same as #1.

Are you going to pick up a rifle and defend your country?