\nNiluksi Koswanage, Bloomberg<\/p>\n
\tBettors queued up at gambling outlets run by Magnum and Berjaya Sports Toto Bhd. to buy such numbers after the flight crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17. That resulted in certain combinations being sold out, Magnum said in an e-mailed statement in response to questions.<\/p>\n
\tPunters in Malaysia and Singapore usually place four-digit bets in lotteries known as Toto and 4D, and it\u2019s not uncommon for people to use registration numbers of vehicles involved in accidents. Prize winnings can be as much as millions of ringgit (hundreds of thousands of dollars), depending on how much was put down for the bet.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThere are so many number 7s in this crash and I wanted to try my luck,\u201d Lee Meng Yew, a 45-year-old mechanic, said as he left a Berjaya Sports Toto gambling outlet in Kuala Lumpur. \u201cThe number combinations for 777 and 17 are not available.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tFlight 17 has attracted attention among Malaysian punters because of the prevalence of the number 7. The Boeing 777 jet was manufactured in July 1997 and had 17 years of service before it crashed July 17 en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, according to data provided by Malaysian Air.<\/p>\n
\tArmed rebels hovering over the investigation are making the reclamation of wreckage and corpses more difficult. Governments around the world are clamoring to be given greater access to bring the remains home and ease the anguish for families amid reports of looting of victims\u2019 possessions.<\/p>\n
\tBerjaya Sports Toto didn\u2019t immediately respond to e-mail and phone requests for comment. Magnum said its customers also buy numbers related to events such as weddings of celebrities, deaths of famous personalities and natural disasters.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWhenever there is a major event that gets publicized in the press, some customers will try to buy numbers related to the event,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\tBerjaya Sports Toto conducts draws every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday for its number-forecast games, according to its website. On Saturday, the number 4176 won the top prize.<\/p>\n
Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on July 27, 2014, 12:13 pm<\/p>\n Niluksi Koswanage, Bloomberg Bettors queued up at gambling outlets run by Magnum and Berjaya Sports Toto Bhd. to buy such numbers after the flight crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17. That resulted in certain combinations being sold out, Magnum…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}