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Lauren Pavlakovich, Project Manager, Looking for Love

After the Daily News has made hay with their Scratch'N'Win promotions (they write regular features about winners whose dreams come true because of the DN promotion), it's sort of hilarious to read that their sweepstakes fulfillment company screwed things up by sending the wrong "winning" answers to be published, making many New Yorkers falsely believe that they had won $100,000. Both Newsday and the NY Times interviewed people who could scarcely believe their luck ("Hawaii was mentioned a few times" and "It was too good to be true") and then realized that their luck was non-existent...and the luck turned into pure rage against the Daily News, who claimed that they weren't responsible for D.L. Blair's problems:

The Daily News blamed Saturday's error, in which the number 13 was printed instead of 12, on contest administrator D.L. Blair of Garden City. The correct numbers are 9, 7, 5, 15, 12, 10, 1, 4, 3, 2. Under the contest rules, a player scratches off the boxes on the game card that correspond to the day's numbers. If three of the boxes have the same dollar value, then that's the money awarded to the player. Only one $100,000 award is available each week, along with 2,500 prizes of lesser amounts.

Did you realize that DiModica and his friends had brought the 7000 pound bull to the NY Stock Exchange in the middle of the night, and the NYPD reprimanded the bull and DiModica for obstructing traffic without a permit? According to a story on Forgotten Delights, the NYSE tried to remove it, but everyone was upset so the Parks Department arranged for it to stay as a "temporary" installation. DiModica tried to sell it in 1993 for $300,000, but no one bit. DiModica told the Daily News that he will still make his "weekly late-night visits to the bull": "It's my strength. It's my life." Whenever Gothamist visits the bull, we giggle about how it's anatomically correct.