Gainesville woman hits at Hard Rock for $974,000, takes limo home

South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | November 12, 2010 | Nick Sortal

[ConservativeStatement]

A Gainesville woman had a profitable trip to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino -- although she missed her ride home.

[bigbob]

I’d be going to Disneyland

[ConservativeStatement]

I wouldn’t be checking the Sunday newspapers for coupons. :-)

[Suvroc10]

Too bad she’s already 73! Not going to have that many years left to enjoy the money.

[devane617]

I’d have an std and a hangover on Monday.

[MediaMole]

Don’t worry, she’ll manage to lose it in 6 months.

She’ll be ripped off and in court for tax delinquencies before the end of next year.

[Vendome]

That’s what my friend said and now she is 100 years and 4 months old. LOL

[CarWashMan]

How many “new” family members is she going to have by the end of next week?

[Vendome]

I’d start throwing bars of soap away after I wore the letters off.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I wouldn’t hit it.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I wouldn’t hit it.

[Fresh Wind]

She’s about to find out that she has a lot of friends that she didn’t know about.

[OrangeHoof]

Frankly, I’m a getting a little pissed off with these lottery/jackpot winners who respond when they win that they “don’t need the money”. So you stole that big payoff from somebody who DID need the money and is still depending on the charity of others all because YOU decided to have a little fun?

I want to hear stories of winners that are up to their neck in debt and can now finally get out from under and still have enough left to enjoy life a little. THAT’S what I want to hear, not these “I’m going to give all the money away because I really didn’t need it” stories. Makes me puke.

[GOYAKLA]

The first thing you do if you win BIG.
Call all your supposed friends and tell them you are in jail and need $3,000.00 to be bailed out.
Immediately mark them off your list if the don’t offer help.

[SkyDancer]

Some casino’s would have said it was a malfunction and offer her a free buffet or something ...

[Viking2002]

'The first thing you do if you win BIG. Call all your supposed friends and tell them you are in jail and need $3,000.00 to be bailed out. Immediately mark them off your list if the don’t offer help.'

That's a pretty good idea, right there. Thin the herd real quick.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[STD]

Laz would hit it, Hell Laz would hit it even if she had ‘no money’

[STONEWALLS]

...$974K minus 40% for taxes times 3% for return on investing the money....her jackpot will throw off about $17,500 a year....yep, she better keep on working.

[Hardastarboard]

By the time Zero and his economic geniuses get done with the economy, $974,000 won’t pay for cab fare home from the casino.

[Lockbar]

Its amazing the casino didn’t find a “machine error” to invalidate the jackpot.