{"id":188,"date":"2009-07-22T08:45:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-07-22T08:45:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:45:03","slug":"lottery-winner-receives-extra-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/lottery-winner-receives-extra-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottery winner receives extra prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent lottery winner in Ontario got an extra on top of the multi-million dollar cheque: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/669888\" target=\"_blank\">a free arrest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> Some guys have all the luck.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Barry Shell of Brampton likely thought Monday when he went to pick up his nearly $4.4 million jackpot at Ontario Lottery and Gaming headquarters on Dundas St. W.<\/p>\n<p>But after a smiling Shell, 45, had posed for an OLG photo holding his cheque for $4,377,298, he was arrested outside the building on outstanding criminal charges and taken into police custody. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The most interesting part, however, was this statement from the lottery officials:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Asked how a lottery win could result in the discovery of outstanding warrants, Rui Brum from OLG said last night: &#8220;A rigorous investigation process is followed any time a prize is claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any flags that are raised are immediately forwarded to the OPP Bureau attached to the AGCO (the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario) for further investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Jon, who said &#8220;come to attention in the media or in some other way, and the state starts looking into you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent lottery winner in Ontario got an extra on top of the multi-million dollar cheque: a free arrest: Some guys have all the luck. That&#8217;s what Barry Shell of Brampton likely thought Monday when he went to pick up his nearly $4.4 million jackpot at Ontario Lottery and Gaming headquarters on Dundas St. W. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[88,87],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","tag-lottery","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}