That was based on a real event at Caltech: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_caper/ http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/ho

That was based on a real event at Caltech: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_caper/ http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/the_cal... The short version: in 1975, at the dawn of the computer age, a group Caltech students used the school's IBM mainframe to print out 1.2 million entries to a McDonald's sweepstakes, stuffing them into the entry boxes at 98 separate restaurant locations. The students ended up winning 20% of the prizes, including a new car and $3000 worth of groceries.