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Soldier trying to collect on British lottery

 
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Soldier trying to collect on British lottery
Soldier trying to collect on British lottery
By TOM BUCKHAM
News Staff Reporter
10/22/2005


Michael Makowski wants his winnings.

Army Spec. 4th Class Michael Makowski is waging war on two fronts these days.
Since January, the 2001 Frontier Central High School graduate has been driving fuel trucks in dangerous territory north of Baghdad.

Now Makowski, 22, who played linebacker for the Falcons, is up against a new challenge: To get more than $1.9 million in cash and prizes - including a Mercedes-Benz - he believes he won in a British lottery.

Makowski bought a GR8 Limited scratch-off ticket at Irelandīs Shannon Airport in late July, during a brief layover on his way home from months of harrowing duty on supply routes in Iraq. Not until he arrived at his Orchard Park home and scraped the ticket with his brother, Marcus, 19, did he realize he had two sets of winning numbers.

The sequence on one side, for a game called Double Trouble, entitled the holder to 1 million British pounds, or about $1.77 million U.S. The numbers on the other side, for the Bank a Million game, were worth 100,000 pounds, or $177,000 U.S., plus a Mercedes, a Sony plasma television and a vacation for two in Florida.

"He was very excited," recalled his mother, Maryanne. "At first, none of us believed it. We were, like, "Whoa.ī "

Then Michael Makowski read the fine print at the bottom of the ticket: Eligibility limited to residents of the United Kingdom.

Maryanne said Friday her older son is determined to collect his earnings. She wanted to know why a soldier in the coalition fighting the Iraq War - an alliance that includes the U.K. - would be denied lottery earnings on a technicality.

"Hereīs my son laying his life on the line for the coalition - for their country and ours. He never would have bought that ticket if he wasnīt coming home on leave. How could he not be eligible? It just isnīt right," she said.

Appealing to lottery officials will be difficult for Makowski, who returned to Iraq in August and will not finish his tour of duty until January, so his mother is taking up the cause. She discovered while searching the Internet that the rule excluding non-U.K. residents from lottery winnings had been lifted in 1989.

But she already has been rebuffed by the lottery, which confirmed via e-mail to her that Makowski indeed holds the winning numbers, but insisted that the clause disqualifying non-residents still applies to the scratch-off game.

His mother isnīt giving up, even if it takes a lawsuit to help Michael cash in his ticket.

"Iīm trying to get this done because he is in no position to do it himself," she said.
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Re: Soldier trying to collect on British lottery
Screw The Brits too, criminal govt


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