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Frances Bobnar of Adamsburg, Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission in March, claiming that she and family members have spent more than $150,000 on lottery tickets during the last ten years but have never won.
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In November Tom Stafford of Mission Viejo, California, won $8,500 in a lawsuit against a local golf course. He hit an errant shot that ricocheted off a steel pole and smacked him in the forehead.
In September Bob Jones of Berkshire, England, filed a claim for about $1,200 with his insurance company for a loss he suffered during a power blackout. Jones had been keeping the body of his parrot, Polly, which had recently been killed by Jones’s dog, in the family freezer for posterity, and during the blackout Polly thawed and decomposed.
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In March George William Corrao, 41, was charged in the shotgun death of his mother in Milwaukee. According to police, the two were watching television, and Corrao became agitated because she was talking incessantly about Olympic skater Dan Jansen.
