When people mock attorneys for making everything in life unduly complex… this is what they mean.
A charity fundraiser in Virginia has some very, very, very tiny fine print, but that first line of eligibility limitation is quite important.
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“To be eligible to purchase a ticket, you must be at least 18 years old and a living resident of the United States.”
Is there a zombie problem in Virginia I don’t know about?
And before you suggest that the requirement is meant to exclude someone’s estate from winning, this isn’t a limitation on eligibility to win, it’s a limit on who is eligible to purchase the ticket in the first place. So if you find yourself in Virginia, you’ve been warned that the undead are trying to win a new house.
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