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Video reveals moment $167.3M Powerball winner is tackled, tased after attacking Florida deputy
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| August 12, 2025
| Ronny Reyes
Posted on 08/13/2025 7:36:18 AM PDT by lowbridge
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posted on
08/13/2025 7:36:18 AM PDT
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lowbridge
To: lowbridge
He will do well with being rich. I just know it.
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posted on
08/13/2025 7:41:46 AM PDT
by
servo1969
To: lowbridge
Following his arrest at the TradeWinds Resort, it was revealed that Farthing was a career criminal who had has racked up convictions across nine counties in Kentucky for a litany of offenses — including choking a girlfriend, bribing officers while in prison and selling cocaine to an undercover cop, according to the Smoking Gun.Maybe winning will inspire him to turn over a new leaf?! Not off to a good start!
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posted on
08/13/2025 7:45:07 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
To: lowbridge
Rich Neckucky Florida Man. The possibilities are endless.
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posted on
08/13/2025 7:46:54 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
To: lowbridge
Florida... go on vacation, leave on probation.
To: lowbridge
"a career criminal who had has racked up convictions across nine counties in Kentucky for a litany of offenses — including choking a girlfriend, bribing officers while in prison and selling cocaine to an undercover cop."
That's quite the resumé.
Money will most likely go up his nose or in his arm.
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posted on
08/13/2025 7:58:46 AM PDT
by
Bon of Babble
(You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
To: Bon of Babble
He’ll be dead before he can spend 10% of his winnings. Guaranteed.
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posted on
08/13/2025 8:00:33 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Republicans are all honorable men.)
To: Antoninus
A lot of these powerball and lottery winners have bad to very bad outcomes.
There is even a TV show about how these sudden, huge amounts of cash have destroyed people’s lives - people who didn’t know how to handle it.
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posted on
08/13/2025 8:05:56 AM PDT
by
Bon of Babble
(You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
To: lowbridge
On this board we sometimes make disparaging remarks about certain, other groups.
After reading this and other articles today I feel the need to verbalize: there are a lot of people in this country that look like me that are really dumb.
To: Bon of Babble
I've heard many of these stories and the main thread is that winning generally leads to unhappiness among the associations of the winner, including the winners themselves. In other words it has the power to destroy lives.
Think about it, the lottery, albeit voluntary, is a regressive tax. It takes from the poor and gives to the rich.
To: jeffersondem
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posted on
08/13/2025 8:20:49 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: jeffersondem
Are you referring to illegals, Muslims, street gangs, violent black criminal racist?
If you could be specific.
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posted on
08/13/2025 8:23:06 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Bon of Babble
I aint scared. Give it to me.
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posted on
08/13/2025 8:23:37 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
To: lowbridge
I knew a couple that won big in the Lottery
Within a year, they both lost their license, and their kids followed the same path
Ritzy house on a big reservoir, with a yard full of dead boats, wave runners, and other expensive toys
High dollar vacations to tropical resorts and got kicked out of most of them
White Trash and then broke in just a few short years
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posted on
08/13/2025 8:24:06 AM PDT
by
digger48
(Mp)
To: omni-scientist
It takes from the poor and gives to the rich. What fraction of lottery players are rich?
I don't know, but I assume (yeah) that it is small. Given the very low probability of winning, playing the lottery is generally a bad decision. People who habitually make bad decisions are generally not wealthy.
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posted on
08/13/2025 8:28:23 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: dragnet2
Humans, the worst, most vile, sihnful group of all.
To: Bon of Babble
This would be a great Twilight Zone episode. A man with a lengthy, violent criminal record, out on conditional probation for multiple felonies, wins $157 million in the lottery, then violates his probation by attacking a police officer for no reason, and gets twenty years in prison. The irony of this is poetic.
To: lowbridge
Well, at least he’ll have funds for the prison commissary.
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posted on
08/13/2025 8:39:44 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Duty is as heavy as a mountain; death is as light as a feather. KTF)
To: Bon of Babble
Bon... He looks like the model for a Garden Gnome!
When he is done resolving his legal problems I suspect his lawyers will be very rich.
To: NorthMountain
"What fraction of lottery players are rich?"
Players are mostly poor to middle-class. All winners are rich, by definition. Not to mention that they did not earn any of it.
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