Originally Posted by kane

There was a story similar to this (without the happy ending) a while back. Workers at a small company had a lottery pool and they won a pretty large amount, enough that they were all going to quit their jobs.There was one guy who didn't buy in who then sued claiming that he always bought into the pools and that he intended to buy into this one.

I don't remember how it turned out, but I do remember that the guy who had collected the buy ins had something that showed this guy was asked to buy in and turned it down.