You want to win the lottery?

I found this "odd" statistic in the NYT today:

What are the Odds?

Lottery officials put the odds of winning the next Mega Millions jackpot at
1 in 175,711,536

The odds of someone in the U.S. being hit by lightning during a year are much better. Experts put them at about
1 in 280,000

The odds of dying in a lightning strike are about
1 in 3,000,000


So what does this tell us? Don't spend your money on buying lottery tickets, watch out instead for lightnings (the odds here are much bigger)