LUCKIEST BINGO PLAYER IN 2008
A man from Huddersfield in Yorkshire has had an extremely lucky year playing bingo at his local Mecca Bingo Hall as he has incredibly won cash nearly 90 times throughout 2008 at the bingo hall in Folly Road.
In total, Brian Parker has scooped over £10,000 in bingo prizes over the past year. He has also been very lucky at bingo in the past few years as he had 42 wins in 2007 and 37 wins in 2006.
An article in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner newspaper reported that on one night Brian won no less than 6 bingo prizes totalling over £1,500.
The 73 year-old grandfather said, “I’ve always been lucky. I think I must have been born with a brass spoon in my mouth. There’s no secret, when I get in the queue people are always telling me I’m going to win. I tell them, ‘You can stand in my place in the queue if you want,’ but they say it won’t make any difference. I’ll still win. A friend of mine said he could see a halo round my head. One night when I was playing, I shouted out that I’d won and another guy called out; ‘Get him out!’ People come up and rub me, hoping that some of the luck will rub off on them.”