Lottery winner got his numbers from a fortune cookie
By: Brian Niemietz - New York Daily News
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Lottery winner got his numbers from a fortune cookie
Now that’s a fortune cookie.
A 32-year Army veteran is $4 million richer after winning the Mega Millions lottery in North Carolina. Gabriel Fierro said he picked the lucky combination by following the advice of a fortune cookie he got from a Chinese restaurant in Charlotte, N.C.
“I don’t usually play my fortune cookie numbers but I tried them on a whim,” Fierro told N.C. Education Lottery.
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The fortune cookie was quite a treat.
The 60-year-old retired master sergeant is a disabled combat veteran who served in Iraq. He bought the winning ticket online earlier in the week and found out via email he was a newly minted millionaire.
His wife initially thought the message was some sort of scam. Once they realized it was the real deal, the two of them ran around the house screaming. Fierro picked up his check from lottery headquarters Thursday. It came out to $2,840,401 after taxes.
According to Fierro, he planned to invest his winnings, but had a stop to make before heading back to his Cornelius, N.C. home.
“We are going to buy some Champagne on the way home,” Fierro told lottery officials.
The fortune cookie came from the Charlotte’s Red Bowl restaurant. Fierro and his wife eat there roughly once a week.
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Once this news gets around American Chinese restaurants might get a little busier. There is no such thing as fortune cookies in China.
There will be when they hear about this.
That could be a great business, exporting fortune cookies to China.
LOL
That's because they were invented by the Japanese curator of the Japanese Tea Garden and Tea House
in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco circa 1914.
Fired by an anti Japanese SF Mayor, Harowaki mounted a campaign to save the Tea Garden he had designed and maintained
for the city since 1895.
It is my understanding that since he also lived in and ran the Tea Garden restaurant, he was now homeless.
He started a grass roots campaign against the mayor and was eventually reinstated.
He had a grand reopening tea party for his supporters and slipped thank you messages into cookies made for the occasion,
They were an instant hit and boon for the Tea House.
Chinatown restruants soon took notice and copied the cookies.
Over the years some monster machinery has been invented to produce the fortune cookie.
Original steam operated machinery was car sized,
Some modern contraptions are the size of school buses.
Love this fortune cookie joke...
No we haven't seen your cat.
I don't usually play Lottery numbers I get from Fortune Cookies, but when I do I only play the numbers I get from Charlotte's Red Bowl Restaurant!
I never won anything with numbers I chose, but when I used the machine-generated ones I won $5000. I noticed the big tax bite that the person who won $4m had to bear. Do you know that in Canada lottery wins are not taxed, they're deemed to be windfalls?
Windfalls, that is what it should be in USA, but our governments are greedy
Riiiight! In the USA they DDDDIIIIGGGG down to the 'dark and dirty' before they come up for air on those taxes!
They're double greedy, they run the lottery and make huge profits then if you win they take another chunk. I'm surprised they don't triple dip and charge sales tax on tickets but you know it's been considered but they probably concluded it would affect ticket sales. Over the years they've changed the odds to make these games more profitable (less winners), I guess people don't notice that as much as an increase in price.
The so-called "Sin Tax" supports governments--yuge taxes on gambling, cigarettes, liquor ...and now in some states legal Cannabis.
They are really high.
But here's something to think about-- if they didn't have those people using those products (I personally choose not to)-- via exorbitant taxes... they would have to raise taxes on things we have no choice about paying or not!
For example, if they charge much lower taxes on gambling, alcohol, cigarettes, etc... they have to make up the shortfall by raising taxers that we have no choice over whether to pay--- for example income tax.
From my POV, I rather have them put the highest taxes of things we have a choice of using or not-- than on my income tax which I have no choice in whether I pay or not.
(Well, I suppose I could live my life without any significant income, then I could "Beat" the income tax!)
I play my SS number and sometimes the time and date
I always get confused and there is usually a line at the counter so I say screw it.
There was a powerball up to about 400 mil a while back.
I play regularly. I can't seem to win though. I am desperately trying to not get a 'complex' behind it. Keeping a stiff upper lip on my sets of numbers! Cheers!
Good luck. If I ever do play and win 400 mil, I doubt you all would hear from me for a while...
Awww. You betcha! Don't ever change; it's only money and we are the real deal! Your internet 'family.' As genuine as virtual gets, Ender!
We differ on that, Ender. A.Mac knows this because we talked about it. If either one of us wins a big one we intend to host a Newstalkers weekend gettogether - invite all active members (with spouses) to a fairly centrally located American resort, we would pay for the rooms and all group banquet meals (buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner but not alcoholic beverages), a dance band for Saturday night. Members would have to pay their own travel expenses and if it's a golf resort their own green fees and any other expenses such as valet or room service. But that was before the pandemic - now I'm not so sure about it.
Open a NT fund for the "truest" of members. PERRIE can administer it. She is our beloved 'Sister.' That's the ticket! Now we have a foundational mission statement. Come on, let's go win a lottery somewhere across the USA and maybe the world! Vroom!
I used to buy lottery tickets. Then I realized what the odds of winning are-- and weighed that against all the money I spent over the years on gambling. So I no longer gamble-- only put my money to use on safe bets (why is why I play The Stock Market).