An elderly man on welfare, who regularly searched through convenience store trash bins in the hopes of finding a winning lottery ticket hit the jackpot in October 2005. While searching through a local store’s trash he found a discarded lottery ticket worth $1 million, which he immediately claimed, sparking a fierce battle between the ticket’s original purchaser, who states he threw away the ticket by accident and was entitled to the money, rather than Edward St. John, the 83 year old pensioner who lives in subsidized housing in the Blackstone, Massachusetts area. The court battle was fierce, with an April 2006 decision of the Massachusetts Lottery Commission concluding that a lottery ticket is like cash, requiring only possession to show ownership. Shortly after, Kevin Donovan, the 49 year old who claimed ownership of the winning ticket passed away after suffering a massive heart attack. At this point, Donovan’s family took up the case, challenging the commission’s ruling and attempting to lock-up the winnings in court for as long as necessary to reclaim the winnings. This meant that the longer the court case was open, the chances of St. John’s passing grew, meaning there was a great chance he wouldn’t live to enjoy the payoff from his found ticket. This prompted him to settle with Donovan’s family for the sum of $140,000 or $7,000 annually for the next 20 years, with St. John getting $43,000 annually for the next 20 years, before taxes of course. St. Johns plans to share the money with his older brother and will have to move out of his house now that his annual income exceeds the maximum allowed for government subsidized housing.

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To be filed in the “when hell freezes over” category, India’s highest court last week demanded that Coca-Cola, along with PepsiCo, supply details of it’s chemical composition and ingredients, after a study there claimed they both contained high levels of pesticides. According to the report, the amount of pesticide residue contained within the soda has grown more than 25 times the amount found 3 years ago in a similar study performed by Indian researchers. The two companies are regular targets for politicians in India, who regard western food products as a threat to Indian heritage and aren’t too happy with the two companies’ relative monopoly of the Indian soft-drink market. It’s highly doubtful that either company will reveal their recipes, so really all anyone can do is sit-back and see if Indian officials are able to actually pass a law banning the sale of the two largest soda-brands on the planet (or see how thick the envelopes full of cash handed to them will be). According to some reports from Coca-Cola, the only two people in the world with access to the bank vault containing Coke’s secret recipe aren’t even allowed to travel on the same aircraft together. The last time a report like this surfaced, schools banned cola sales and Coke’s sales dropped by 11% in the subsequent financial quarter.

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