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A friend of the family recently won a million dollar house in the hospital raffle. It was a house on the Gold Coast in Queensland, which he immediately sold.
by andrewstuart 4y ago
A friend of the family recently won a million dollar house in the hospital raffle. It was a house on the Gold Coast in Queensland, which he immediately sold. I think he might also have won $20,000 of gold bullion in another hospital raffle.
And off topic but my brother won a years supply of Kentucky Friend Chicken in the footy tipping..... and he is a vegetarian. Imagine that - you win the sacrifice of 365 chickens for your skill in picking footy teams. KFC gave him 50 x $50 vouchers.
And I once spent two full days entering every possible online competition I could find. You can guess how much I won.
Here is Australia in the 1980's it was common to find free competition tickets that you could enter in fish and chip shops. For a joke, a friend entered another friend, who won an all expenses paid trip for two to Europe, without knowing they had been entered.
I personally during the source of my many years, have won precisely nothing ever.
- ungamedplayer 4y agoWhen you say 'footie' that makes me think you are Australian. "Raffles" in australia have very specific legal requirements.
- fy20 4y ago'Footie' is often used in the UK to refer to foo^H^H^Hsoccer.
- sejje 4y ago> Here is Australia in the 1980's I think it's safe to say he's in Australia.
- lizknope 4y agoHe also mentions Queensland
- InCityDreams 4y agoNo mention of spiders? I'm calling bs.
- dpe82 4y agoTheir explicit mentioning of Australia makes me thing they're in Australia.
- andrewstuart 4y agoTo be fair, I edited my post after that comment and added the explicit references to QLD and AUS.
- MengerSponge 4y agoA clue!
- astrange 4y agoA lot of people in Australia aren't Australian. Fairly trivial result though.
- LilBytes 4y agoThe Gold Coast and Queensland are in Australia, so you're 100% on the money. You see Surf Life Saving raffles for gorgeous homes and cars all the time. I imagine the laws in our country (I'm also in Australia, though not Australian) mean the advertised prizes have to be winnable.
- ungamedplayer 4y agoIf you're living here, paying taxes, not being a stain on society, you're good enough for most of us mate.
- Handytinge 4y agoYep, I felt sad reading this article. Our sweepstakes and competition laws are quite strict and consumer focused.
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- honkdaddy 4y agoWhat kind of requirements? Would the type of scam in the article be legal in Australia?
- rrrhys 4y agoWe don't have this scam. We get the car parked in the shopping centre with big "WIN THIS CAR" signs. Entry is $5-10 per ticket though, so it seems feasible there's actually a winner somewhere along the way (My assumption is a Mustang appears in a few shopping centres at once and one is ultimately given away, for example).
- Balgair 4y agoGo 'Pies!
- jon_adler 4y agoI’m beginning to question if HN really is full of the smartest and brightest :). (Carn the Lions)
- Handytinge 4y agoMe too. Up the Dons!
- walrus01 4y agothere are also raffles for entire houses held in the vancouver bc area, for a children's hospital and a few other charities. the houses/property really do exist and there really is a winner each year. it's my understanding that these do see a fair bit of legal scrutiny and oversight to make sure everything is above board, tickets are like $100 or $300 a piece.
- imron 4y ago> When you say 'footie' No one says 'footie' in Australia. We say 'footy'.