[ WP ] The lottery is an Institution designed to catch Time Travelers .

I found this very interesting as I had a very strange encounter with the lottery. @ Thenre, I am assuming you are talking about powerball? When you posted those numbers, you never had a powerball number. So I checked the powerball history combining those 6 numbers the 4 different ways, and they never did all come up. However, using 5 as the powerball 4 numbers did come up about a month ago. Also, interestingly, at least 3 of these numbers come up with some frequency. 
 
 About 9 years ago I was onto the lottery numbers, but I did not have them quite right. Then about a month later all the lottery numbers that had hit on May 26, 2005 came up on the back of my ticket numbers. None of the tickets were worth anything, and sadly one of them with the winning 33 at the end of the ticket number, which had been the winning number on May 26, 2005 was kept by the retailer. Then the lottery machine reset the ticket numbers and by coincidence I ended up with another lottery ticket with the same exact ticket number with the 33 at the end that I had lost! I have a photo copy of this. 
 
 After that, things got strange with the lottery. Numbers were posted at the store for the next week, yet they had not been drawn yet. I asked about this, but the lady working at the store said it must be some kind of mistake. So I got the bright idea to play these numbers, but it was a bad idea. I filled out the ticket, and on the way to the store a truck exactly like mine swerved into my lane and almost hit me head on. I almost turned around, but I thought they are only numbers. 
 
 When I submitted my card, the lady at the store asked me if I was sure I wanted to play those numbers. Strange, that had never been asked before. The machine took a real long time to print out the numbers. As I was handed the ticket I looked behind me. The girl behind me was wearing a shirt with a broken heart on it. It said `` you broke it, now you have to fix it''. I thought it must be some weird coincidence. Btw, those numbers did not come up. 
 
 That night I watched Constantine at my ex wifes house, they just happened to be watching it. It was like Hell was coming out of the TV. I am normally a normal guy, but my ex and her friends could tell I was losing it. I went home, and noticed the state flag at the firehouse was inverted. Instead of a blue background and yellow seal, it had a yellow background, and blue seal. It was like I was in an alternate universe. 
 
 As it got light I took my truck and went into the mountains to get away from it all. I walked up an old logging road. There were flowers that were beautiful when I walked by, but when I would turn around there would be silk worms all over them, Weird, they were not there when I walked by. It was August, and very hot. I met a couple walking down the road. Strange, no one usually hiked this road. Strangely, when they talked to me they seemed confused, and did not know what day it was. 
 
 I could not find the trail to the creek, so I finally got so thirsty, and was not thinking right. I left my pants and coat at a specific forest service marking because I was so hot, walked down to the creek down a very steep bank in my shorts and t shirt, drank a bunch of water, and hiked down a very treacherous creek. I finally found the trail and hiked out to my truck and drove home. 
 
 I had my wallet in my pants. Things were still askew in my mind when I hiked back up to get my pants and wallet two days later. Very strangely, my pants were not at the forest sevice marked coordinate where I put them, but on the next coordinate up! It was like reality had changed slightly from the way it had been. Not only that, they were tearing that road up for no apparent reason. I had to go around a guy on the ungated road digging part of the road out with a backhoe. I had never seen him before, even though this was a very small town. He had his shirt off and had strange tattoos running down his back. He also had very odd pale blue eyes that were very blue. I could n't help but ask, and he said they were contacts he wore for the chicks. It was sunny out, and I never saw contacts. This was not the type of guy that looked like he would be operating a backhoe for the Forest Service. They tore the whole gated logging road and the road I drove up over the next few days, and replaced all culverts, even though it did not need to be done, almost like they were fixing whatever glitch I had caused. I told some friends what had happened and drove them up that road. They did not know what to think, but did not discount m story. I was well liked and respected around there. 
 
 There were some other things that happened, but I will not get into it all. Like right when this was happening I tried to call my Mother, but there were no outgoing calls from my town long distance. Eventually, every thing returned to normal. I am not giving out my real name or where this took place. What do you all think? 

