Man Bet $870 He Would Be Dead By Now - He Is Still Alive & Must Pay Up

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A 91-YEAR-OLD British man who staked a 500-pound ($870) bet that he would be dead by the end of the first week in December has lost his stake by staying alive.

Arthur King-Robinson said he put the bet on at odds of six to one at the start of the year because his wife would have faced an inheritance tax bill of 3000 pounds had he died in the intervening period.

Graham Sharpe, spokesman for bookmaker William Hill, said: "I thought I'd heard most things that people want to bet on after 30 years in the business. "But one asking literally to place a dead cert was unique. I'm glad Arthur has lost."

Mr King-Robinson had feared that his wife Cynthia, 85, would have to sell the home they had lived in for 50 years in southwest England if she had been hit by the tax bill.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17552787-13762,00.html

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