That's quite the resumé.
Money will most likely go up his nose or in his arm.
Posted on 08/13/2025 7:36:18 AM PDT by lowbridge
Newly released video captured the moment the winner of a $167.3 million Powerball jackpot got tackled and tased by Florida police after kicking a deputy in the head.
Bodycam footage from the April 29 brawl caught James Farthing, 50, booting a Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputy in the head when police arrived at the TradeWinds Resort, in St. Pete Beach, after he allegedly punched a hotel guest in the face, WFLA reported.
The deputy was holding another person to the ground when Farthing ran up and kicked him, with resort security rushing in to pin the suspect against the wall and help the deputy.
“I just got kicked,” the dumbfounded deputy could be heard radioing as the security guards yelled at Farthing to stand down.
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“I’m sorry man, please,” Farthing could be heard saying as the officers handcuffed him.
“Save your f—king sorries for later,” the deputy fired back.
The law enforcement officer had “swelling and redness” on the right side of his face under his eye, according to the affidavit first reported on by the Smoking Gun.
Farthing hit Kentucky’s largest lottery jackpot just day before the encounter, opting to split the winnings with his mother as an early Mother’s Day gift.
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.
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He will do well with being rich. I just know it.
Maybe winning will inspire him to turn over a new leaf?! Not off to a good start!
Rich Neckucky Florida Man. The possibilities are endless.
Florida... go on vacation, leave on probation.
That's quite the resumé.
Money will most likely go up his nose or in his arm.
He’ll be dead before he can spend 10% of his winnings. Guaranteed.
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.
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.
Think about it, the lottery, albeit voluntary, is a regressive tax. It takes from the poor and gives to the rich.
What groups are those?
Are you referring to illegals, Muslims, street gangs, violent black criminal racist?
If you could be specific.
I aint scared. Give it to me.
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
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.
Humans, the worst, most vile, sihnful group of all.
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.
Well, at least he’ll have funds for the prison commissary.
When he is done resolving his legal problems I suspect his lawyers will be very 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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