The Brazilian Lottery MysteryDid you hear the rumor about the
Brazilian lottery winner? Supposedly a Brazilian immigrant
bought a winning $126 million lottery ticket in Newark, but
couldn't cash it in because they were illegal, so they passed it
on to somebody else, now rumors are flying from here to South
America, and nobody knows who has it, but everybody is so
obsessed with looking for it, the media on two different
continents is on the case, but maybe the whole thing is false.
It's all a product of the ease with which the world communicates
in this digital age, as well as a powerful statement on
immigrants yearning for the American dream. One new clue is this
actual sentence from a KKTV story about the Montauk Monster:
"According to the Huffington Post, Gawker has raking in eleven
billion page views since the picture came out Tuesday." So
aren't we all really "lottery winners," in a way? [NYT]