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Old Apr 8, 2008 | 2:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Blumie
I rolled my eyes at the ridiculous suggestion that what AA was doing was tantamount to running a numbers racket. Perhaps they're regulated by the same law, but the similarity ends there.

As originally conceived, both are illegal lotteries, one run by an upstanding corporate citizen, the other by thugs.

I guess it was an extreme example -- I understand the thugs give much better odds.
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