Anecdote Unusual

[Dalia]

Good evening, unusual stories is what I propose.

At 82 years old he finds his wedding ring in a carrot of his garden


This man from Bad Münstereifel in Germany had lost his wedding ring for 3 years. And when he had mislaid it it had been 50 years that he carried it. The couple then came to celebrate their golden wedding. But his wife had told him that he would one day find that lost ring.
His wife died in the meantime. However, she was right, the marriage covenant reappeared! And unexpectedly: in a carrot of his garden! The carrot grew through the ring and raised it to the surface so that it could eventually be found by its owner. For the greatest happiness of this man very down to earth badgrin:

Vous récoltez ce que vous semez/ You reap what you sow

A 82 ans il retrouve sa bague de mariage dans une carotte de son jardin

 

[Dalia]

She earns € 150,000 by checking her spam!

Helen Garner is a lucky one. Indeed, the 73-year-old Australian found in her unwanted mail an e-mail saying that she is the happy winner of a literary prize, the Windham-Campbell Literature Award.
Since 2013, this prize has been awarded to authors of fiction, drama and drama for a substantial sum of € 150,000 so that they have sufficient financial autonomy to devote themselves solely to their works.
A simple hoax
Ms Garner initially thought, but the information in the e-mail was too precise to be a simple spam.
Indeed, how could this author have been so precise in mentioning the winning of the Windham-Campbell award when she was herself an author?
So she got closer to Yale University, the American university organizing the literature prize. Well took him because the writer had confirmation that she had won the 150,000 €.
I thought I was fainting, I'm both stunned, very happy and I feel recognized (Helen Garner at the Sydney Morning Herald).
You will no longer look at your spam in the same way.
For the record
Helen did not even know that she competed for the literary prize, the participants being chosen by a jury.
She will seek her reward in September 2016.

Elle gagne 150 000 € en consultant ses spams ! - L'Anecdote

 

[Dalia]

He earns $ 500,000 through a bug in a slot machine
23 janvier 2016

To win every time? So do like John Kane who is a very big slot machine player. In April 2009, during a game on a video poker machine in a Las Vegas casino, he discovered a complex bug by chance.

It involved a series of different actions: play a game on the machine until you have a high payout, then move on to another game and play until the "doubling" option appears, then add more money to it The machine, quit the specific game, change the max amount, and then return to the original game played. His earnings were 10 times more than they were supposed to be. He shared the secret of this discovery with his friend André Nestor. They took advantage of the trick for 3 months and won $ 500,000 by playing on different machines of the same type using the same software.

But on July 6, 2009 Kane was too greedy not to be noticed. He enjoyed a lot of big winnings by winning five jackpots in one hour. The machine was therefore sent for review to check the software and the bug was discovered. The casino filed a complaint, but the US court ruled that there was no computer hacking and both players were released. She ruled that they simply took advantage of a casino trick, a software bug of a slot machine, quite legally. As Andre Nestor rightly explains:

I was arrested by the federal government for winning a slot machine. (...) Someone told me that there were machines that had programming that gave the player an advantage over the house, and what to do to enjoy it. Who would not want to earn as much money as possible on a machine that says "Jackpot"? That's the idea!
Il gagne 500 000 dollars grâce à un bug d'une machine à sous

 

[DGS49]

A distant acquaintance of mine told me at a party a few years ago that there was a video poker machine at the Rivers Casino (in Pittsburgh) that was paying "too much." He said there were only a few players that were aware of it, and they were trying not to exploit it too obviously, but it had been going on for about a month.

I rolled my eyes. I hear shit like this from gamblers all the time. They always win. Riiiiiiiight.

A few days later there was a news item on the 11 o'clock news about this video poker machine that had to be removed from the gambling floor because it had a glitch in its programming. No shit.

 

[Pogo]

Bonjour Dalia, here's one from my own experience. A friend.

My friend from Tennessee lost her father several years ago. They were very close. Soon after he was buried my friend noticed a buckeye had suddenly appeared on the table where there had been no buckeye before.

(a buckeye is the nut of a tree that grows around the midwest US, looks like this--

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She noticed this buckeye because her father had always carried a buckeye in his pocket for luck.

Soon she began noticing, every once in a while, another buckeye would just ---- appear. Out of nowhere.

Finally some time later my friend was travelling out west, somewhere in the desert like Nevada, visiting a museum. At one display she asked the curator "what's that on the back of the display?"

The curator went over to check and was astonished to find -- a buckeye, out of nowhere, hundreds of miles from where they ever grow. He could not explain how it got there.