This story is true:

My neighbours and good friends, John and Kathy, have an adult son who has had to deal with cerebral palsy all his life, and as such Kathy is the founding member of a program to help disabled people. The program has been going for quite a number of years now with great success from donations and sponsers from individuals and companies alike which has helped them not only keep the program going but they were also able to purchase a small bus with wheelchair accessability this past year as well.

Anyway, each year they hold a raffle to help raise money for the program with some of the better prizes being things like a 40" flatscreen TV to computers to small kitchen appliances like microwaves or coffeemakers ect. Many of the parents of the "kids" (adults actually) in the program attend the raffle and buy tickets at $20ea to try and win which ever prize they want to use their ticket on, as well as anyone else who wishes to contribute to the cause.

John usually buys a couple of hundred $$ of tickets but hands them to Kathy to check the numbers whenever they bid on something. Now, being a founding member of this program she sometimes has the opportunity to draw the winning ticket from the basket on some of the items.

So the item up for raffle happened to be a nice laptop, so Kathy bids a couple of tickets but is also asked to spin the basket and choose the winning ticket. As she spins it and is about to choose a ticket, some fellow up front says "If she wins, it's fixed" so she asked him if he'd like to pick the winning ticket. He goes up to the stage, feels around the tickets, pulls one out and calls the number....nobody seems to have the winning ticket, nobody's saying anything....Kathy then looks at the ticket stubs she has...!!!! HaHa, the guy picked her ticket!! what justice.

Just to be clear, the people, volunteers ect are all allowed to join in this (relatively small) raffle, since without them it wouldn't be able to make any money for the program and the chances for people to win something are very good. I believe they give back about $1 per $2 spent which is quite good.


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