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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Pretty nice jewelry our tax money is buying her with EBT cards. I don’t own anything that nice.
well, it does sound like maybe she’s got a point....?
Dayum!
This woman is Dem presidential material.
Must be "her turn."
There should be the Mother of All Class-Action Suits against the various state lotteries that sell scratch-off games.
Universally, the games on the cards look much easier to win than they actually are. The symbols and numbers are not printed randomly, as one might assume, but rather, a certain number of winners are printed. Your odds of winning are determined by the number of winning tickets printed, not on the particulars of the game.
This is deceptive, and should be actionable.
Yeah, was also curious about Hillary’s hatred for lottery officials.
They have more money than her, so she is no doubt highly jealous.
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