Posted on 01/06/2017 4:14:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A Pennsylvania lottery player who kept buying losing scratch-off tickets called her string of losses a conspiracy and threatened to kill employees at state lottery headquarters, authorities said.
Towanda A. Shields is wanted on 53 charges, including harassment, stalking and terroristic threats, for phone calls and voice-mail messages that police said started as a “nuisance” last year and escalated into a “relentless” stream of hostile, sexually explicit and threatening statements to Pennsylvania Lottery officials in Lower Swatara Township.
Police there issued a warrant for her arrest Tuesday and are working with authorities in Philadelphia, where Shields lives, to bring her into custody.
“You can’t look at it and say, ‘This is just somebody venting,’ ” Lower Swatara Township Police Detective Robert Appleby told The Washington Post. “To go as long and hard as she did, you start to wonder if she was going to go any further.”(continued)
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Absolutely, and that's why I've always been 100% against state lotteries.
Why would anyone buy a losing ticket when you can find them in the nearest trash can.
I won ten large way back when the state I lived in back then first got scratch-offs. Lived on that for several years combined with low-paying jobs. It can happen.
How much you want to bet (no pun intended) this is also the type of person who made threats after Hillary Clinton lost. That corrupt, contemptible woman sparked a class of sore losers I never thought possible.
Total sucker bet but you can’t win without a ticket.
Towanda, LaWanda, whatever
I don’t EVEN need to see a picture
Glad to be of service!
Absolutely, and that’s why I’ve always been 100% against state lotteries. <<
Me Too!...The states have a closed monopoly ....I could run one and double the odds of winning and still make a fortune but they’d put me in jail for unfair competition!!
That’s an ingenious way to handle this problem of always losing the lottery.
I saw that, too. Sounds like her parents are as smart as her.
Neither whites nor Blacks are getting a basic education in the U.S. A basic course in statistics should be required for all high school or alternative school graduates. Such basic knowledge might have helped her put her losses into logical perspective. Videos interviewing students at Ivy League schools are demonstrating how ill-educated and illogical today’s students are, because political correctness has become the only curriculum spoonfed them all through school.
Definition of lottery: A tax on people with poor math skills.
The gambler’s fallacy.
Botox poisoning is so ugly.
Botox poisoning is so ugly.
oops - wrong thread
It’s also the name of a town in northern PA, an hour or so south of Binghamton, New York.
Pretty nice jewelry our tax money is buying her with EBT cards. I don’t own anything that nice.
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