Posted on 07/12/2007 6:54:18 AM PDT by Main Street
With a name like Dwayne Smith, and the use of the word "Crac-kuh", I seriously doubt that he was an illegal, unless he was from Jamaica, Barbados, etc.
I think you guys wore blue at Gettysburg.
....a flash from the past...remember the FEMA card for the Katrina victims?...$2,000 worth....went for booze, strippers and big TVs....
From the article: "the Jamaican-born Smith"
Thanks. FloSun (aka the brothers Fanjul) brought in alot of legal and illegal (per former FloSun employees) Jamaicans when I was living in Florida to cut sugarcane. Many of them wound up spreading throughout the state.
When the Westerville OH workers won a big Lotto payday they retained an attorney who attemped to protect their identities - as far as I know he succeeded at least partially.
As many may know the fine print on a ticket states that lottery commmission(s) may use your likeness, name, etc. in advertising and promotion if you win. Obviously this can be problematic in today's society.
The attorney claims that once a ticket is a winner it becomes a negotiable instrument.
His reasoning may or may not be sound but if I were to ever win I would keep mum and resist becoming a potential Jack Whitaker.
Since you are a genuine cracker, perhaps you can tell me the origin of the term?
I have a sister who won a large amount of money fifteen years ago.She won with eleven co-workers and her take was twenty thousand a year for twenty years after taxes.Haven’t heard a word from her since!The good thing was the family really did not care and hound her.She quit her job as a bank manager and gained 150 pounds and does most of her shopping from the QVC channel!The family is more concerned with her health than her wealth!
There was a guy in West Virginia who hit it big — blew most of it and then had some of it stolen while he was at a strip club. Good grief — why would anyone walk around in this day and age flashing a wad of cash — I don’t care if it’s lottery winnings or even a few dollars from the banking machine? You just set yourself up for a world of trouble.
If I hit big, I’d quit my job, sell my house and move away without leaving a forwarding address.
Same goes for the cop shootings a few days ago in Brooklyn.
Or at the OTB in New York. Unless there is a blind guy on the subway.
Good ol’ Lotto...that’s where dreams are made !!!
It’s all about the bling. That’s where you’ll find happiness.
Very rich people become limousine socialists as a ploy to deflect envy so they can keep their riches. They pretend to want to redistribute their wealth but really they want the working new rich to be taxed back to the middle class. They keep the lower class from revolting against the rich and they keep worker bees from joining the leisure class, of which they have nothing in common.
Yeah, but that big stupid grin on your face would be a dead giveaway. Blackbird.
Via postcard? Rio's nice even during their winter...
I read about that guy. He had his own construction paving business for 20+ years. Before winning he had maybe 2 or 3 lawsuits against his business. After winning, his company was sued over 200 time in one year.
Disgusting...
Agreed. Go away quietly.
Oh no-————he said the C word.
I thought we had a funeral for that.
The word clinton has been baned?
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