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El Bastardo 01-11-2016 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TypeRNammer (Post 8715796)
Is there a quick pick option or do we have to pick our own numbers?

Either or. You'll have to look up on the website the number ranges.

Mr.Money 01-11-2016 12:56 PM

i send pm :awwyeah:

MG1 01-11-2016 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by El Bastardo (Post 8715784)
As the official Revscene ambassador to Texas, hit me up if you want me to buy you a Powerball ticket. Its as easy as me walking to the end of the block at the gas station to grab you one.

I can get your ticket, write your name on it, and text you a picture of the whole thing.

One Powerball play with the Extra is $3 USD or $4.25 CAD. I'm offering this service with no extra fees or costs. Just Paypal me the CAD and you'll have your chance to win.

XE: (USD/CAD) US Dollar to Canadian Dollar Rate

So you survived the sharknado in Texas? Good to know. We were a little worried.

El Bastardo 01-11-2016 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MG1 (Post 8715814)
So you survived the sharknado in Texas? Good to know. We were a little worried.

We fired our guns into the air to fend off the sharks, only to feed the tornado bullets which made it stronger.

Many a great Texan died that day.

Mr.Money 01-11-2016 01:53 PM

payment sent good sir,i have a good feeling about this :fullofwin:

FerrariEnzo 01-11-2016 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TypeRNammer (Post 8715796)
Is there a quick pick option or do we have to pick our own numbers?

You can quick pick..

Each card has 5 plays. $2 for 6 numbers... 1-69 - 5 white balls, 1-26 - 1 red ball, $1 for each powerplay.

Theres a spot that says QP for quickpick.

Chronix 01-11-2016 03:44 PM


this guy fucks

PeanutButter 01-11-2016 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Chronix (Post 8715870)

"Isn't live TV grand"
ahhaha

Mikoyan 01-11-2016 10:12 PM

What the hell?

Apparently US Customs and Border Patrol agents are enforcing an old law that prohibits importing lottery tickets into the USA. You can buy them, but you can't come back to Canada, and return to the USA with them:

CTV Vancouver: Border guards' Powerball warning | CTV Vancouver News

Here's the law (referenced, but not explained in the video.)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1305

19 U.S. Code § 1305 - Immoral articles; importation prohibited

(a) Prohibition of importation
All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country any book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, or drawing containing any matter advocating or urging treason or insurrection against the United States, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon any person in the United States, or any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article which is obscene or immoral, or any drug or medicine or any article whatever for causing unlawful abortion, or any lottery ticket, or any printed paper that may be used as a lottery ticket, or any advertisement of any lottery. No such articles whether imported separately or contained in packages with other goods entitled to entry, shall be admitted to entry; and all such articles and, unless it appears to the satisfaction of the appropriate customs officer that the obscene or other prohibited articles contained in the package were inclosed therein without the knowledge or consent of the importer, owner, agent, or consignee, the entire contents of the package in which such articles are contained, shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture as hereinafter provided:

You can't even cross the border with a Lotto Max ticket in your wallet. Google newspaper archives reference a couple articles where 6/49 tickets were seized in the 80's by customs when Americans went across the border to Ontario to buy 6/49 tickets.

Soundy 01-11-2016 10:34 PM

Is it still "importing" if it was bought there in the first place? Sounds like room for some serious legal wrangling. Then again... stuff the damn thing down your crotch and tell them you're coming across for gas, WTF are they gonna do?

Or rent yourself a mailbox in Blaine and stash it there... leave it with a "trusted" friend... bury it in a box along 0 Ave....

Mikoyan 01-11-2016 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Soundy (Post 8716042)
Is it still "importing" if it was bought there in the first place? Sounds like room for some serious legal wrangling. Then again... stuff the damn thing down your crotch and tell them you're coming across for gas, WTF are they gonna do?

Or rent yourself a mailbox in Blaine and stash it there... leave it with a "trusted" friend... bury it in a box along 0 Ave....

Yeah. Importing in this case just means bringing it into the USA. Doesn't matter the origin. Stupid Prohibition era law, but now the application of it seems to be to prevent foreign lottery scams from entering the US.

If you had the 1.4 billion dollar winning ticket shoved down your pants, you're probably going to be nervous enough to get made by CBP and end up strip searched.

The CTV bit suggested leaving the tickets in the US too.

Pho Dac Biet 01-11-2016 10:53 PM

rent a P.O. box and mail it to yourself

StylinRed 01-11-2016 10:57 PM

told my friend when he went over to buy gas & tickets, not to tell the guards that he's going to buy lotto tickets, because i knew it would rustle jimmies... looks like jimmy rustling over 9000 has been reached

ae101 01-11-2016 10:58 PM

cant u like hide the ticket some where in your car, like stuff them in the edges of the back seat or something

Ch28 01-11-2016 10:58 PM

Americans pulling old laws out of their ass cause they mad

punkwax 01-11-2016 11:10 PM

I thought years ago a Canadian did win the Powerball... google search only produces recent results including: Canadians, yes, you can win the Powerball lottery ? here's how

Hehe 01-12-2016 03:09 AM

If you have the winning ticket, I'm sure it's not too much trouble to hire a lawyer to *bring it back* to US soil somehow, legally speaking.

Verdasco 01-12-2016 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by El Bastardo (Post 8715784)
As the official Revscene ambassador to Texas, hit me up if you want me to buy you a Powerball ticket. Its as easy as me walking to the end of the block at the gas station to grab you one.

I can get your ticket, write your name on it, and text you a picture of the whole thing.

One Powerball play with the Extra is $3 USD or $4.25 CAD. I'm offering this service with no extra fees or costs. Just Paypal me the CAD and you'll have your chance to win.

XE: (USD/CAD) US Dollar to Canadian Dollar Rate


I wonder if i can set up a brand new paypal account today and link it to my bank account.

PogChamp :badpokerface:

El Bastardo 01-12-2016 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Verdasco (Post 8716147)
I wonder if i can set up a brand new paypal account today and link it to my bank account.

PogChamp :badpokerface:



Venmo, Interac Transfer, or Google Wallet also work.

fliptuner 01-12-2016 10:07 AM

EB accepts all forms of payment :ifyouknow:

Verdasco 01-12-2016 10:13 AM

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Originally Posted by fliptuner (Post 8716157)
EB accepts all forms of payment :ifyouknow:

nice post to avi ratio BrokeBack

cdizzle_996 01-12-2016 11:19 AM

When I got ha Friday night the US officer asked me if I was doing anything else. I had planned on buying a ticket, but forgot. He was like "you're not sure you're doing anything else aside from gas". I told him no, and he was adiment I was lying. "Well i guess I'm going to have to send you inside for lying to me"

I was like alright then, whatever..all the while he's keeping a straight face. Finally he says so you're not buying a powerball ticket it's a billion dollars. I was like oh ya I did plan on it. He said see I told you that you were lying, both had a chuckle and I was on my way.

Verdasco 01-12-2016 02:29 PM

hope my texas ticket wins! gl :)

akira112 01-12-2016 05:41 PM

Holy crap up to 2 billion!

subordinate 01-12-2016 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by akira112 (Post 8716334)
Holy crap up to 2 billion!

I only see 1.5billion on their home page

Anyways, I hope someone deserving wins. Someone that needs the money. Hopefully they use it wisely.


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