Posted on 01/15/2016 10:41:29 PM PST by hoagy62
Most people know the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are close to impossible - some one in 292.2 million, to be exact. That said, a wise and prudent person would think the chances of anyone having pity on someone for losing their life savings - and helping them get back in the game - are nil. Apparently not, as one Tennessee woman, aka the "Biggest Powerball Loser," soon learned.
Meet Cinnamon Nicole, everybody, the new GoFundMe visionary - despite her losing effort to go from rags to riches.
According to an Uproxx report, the Cordova resident joined throngs of people around the country in buying lottery tickets for the history-making $1.6 billion Powerball drawing on Wednesday. However, Nicole’s situation is different. Instead of buying just a few with her favorite numbers and perhaps, a quick-pick, she allegedly bought a boatload - to the tune of her entire family savings. With that kind of, ahem, investment, how could she lose? She did, and that's only half of this sad tale. The next set of events is downright shocking and is up there with some of the most bizarre things ever done on - and off - the internet. *snip* The poster - or someone posing as her - had the audacity to open a GoFundMe Powerball Reimbursement page. In return for your generosity, the Powerball loser promised to make donors her #MCM or #WCW. *snip* Yea, it wasn't pretty. As outlandish as this sounds - or should - to the average reader, her crowdfunding effort paid off; reportedly, within hours of the page going live, about $800 in donations poured into the account. Apparently, her sympathetic plea sparked the spirit of giving - and gullibility - in some donors.
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Nope
In high school right before quitting.... “I don’t need no goddam arithmetic. What do I need wit that? Look at my fine a$$.”
According to an urban slang dictionary, MCM means Mad Capsule Market and WCW means World Championship Wrestling. So I am still mystified.
I’ve never bought a ticket either since I’d probably find a bill instead as well.
Besides I learned a long time ago that I’m no gambler and really have no business with games of chance.
Stupidity should never go unrewarded.
Or as John Wayne said, “Life is hard. It is harder when you are stupid.”
2 tickets? You high roller you!
the image was entirely predictable.
Some porno company should offer her thousands of dollars for a video. She’ll leap at the cash.
lol
I don’t have any money for her but I could play her a tune on the worlds tiniest violin.
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