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Imagine having to pay taxes on your Monopoly winnings? WTH? It’s hard to even imagine there would be any sort of championship on a game that really is the chance of the dice. I guess to the winner though, the 22k in cash worked out ok.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A lucky swap and some eager building propelled a 19-year-old Norwegian student to the top of board game fame and sent three would-be tycoons to the poor house at the Monopoly World Championship in Las Vegas.
Bjorn Halvard Knappskog, who graduated this year from the Oslo Private Gymnasium school, captured the title on Thursday when the battleship token of 25-year-old Geoff Christopher of New Zealand landed consecutively on Pacific Avenue and North Carolina Avenue, and he couldn’t afford the combined $1,600 rent.
“(I’m) the most surprised you could ever be,” Knappskog told The Associated Press. “I think this was a really good final. It was the best game I played in the whole tournament.”
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Brenda Bailey is still on a roll. This week, the 60-year-old South Charleston woman claimed her ninth West Virginia Lottery prize, $7,000 in the Gem 7s instant game. That brings her total winnings since last September to $159,000 from five instant tickets.![dachshundwmustard[1]](http://www1.theworldlink.com/weird_news/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/dachshundwmustard1-300x218.jpg "dachshundwmustard[1]")
NEW YORK (AP) — Joey Chestnut chomped down a record 68 hot dogs, capturing his third straight July Fourth hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island, an annual showcase for flamboyant hot dogging contestants eager to show they really are what they eat.
