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Man who was arrested days after winning $167M Powerball jackpot requests to serve out his sentence
https://www.kplctv.com/2025/06/11/man-who-was-arrested-days-after-winning-167m-powerball-jackpot-re ^ | 2 July 2025 | WKYT Staff

Posted on 07/03/2025 10:45:15 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Following the Powerball announcement, Farthing and his girlfriend flew to a beachfront resort in Florida to celebrate his good--and immense--fortune. Before traveling south, however, Farthing failed to take care of one crucial matter: getting permission from his parole officer to leave the Bluegrass State.

e has a 16-page rap sheet and a dizzying criminal record that spans 35 years and includes convictions in at least nine counties and from every corner of Kentucky’s penal code.

A day into his recent short-lived Florida vacation, Farthing allegedly punched a guest in the face during an 11 PM argument at the TradeWinds Resort in St. Pete Beach. When a cop sought to break up the fight, Farthing kicked him in the face “in an attempt to injure and or incapacitate myself,” according to an arrest affidavit sworn by the officer.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: unlucky

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Dead or severely disabled, coming soon.
1 posted on 07/03/2025 10:45:15 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

probably doesn’t want to deal with all the relatives coming out of nowhere for a handout...


2 posted on 07/03/2025 10:46:22 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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3 posted on 07/03/2025 10:47:22 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messag)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Oh, please, please, please let this dumbbarse cash it out and leave monies in care of his “GF”.

Yeah, go to jail. Let’s see what is awaiting your release.


4 posted on 07/03/2025 10:49:44 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: DUMBGRUNT

One of the best reasons for abolishing this regressive tax on stupid people. Because even for the lucky ones who win, they remain losers.


5 posted on 07/03/2025 10:57:43 AM PDT by omni-scientist
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To: DUMBGRUNT
His many faces.



6 posted on 07/03/2025 11:04:21 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

DEAR God,please just once let someone really good get lucky.


7 posted on 07/03/2025 11:07:13 AM PDT by cherry
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Bad people can sometimes have good luck.


8 posted on 07/03/2025 11:09:38 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: plain talk

I looked up the Tradewinds where he stayed. Nice place. For a day. Hahahaha


9 posted on 07/03/2025 11:11:56 AM PDT by albie
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To: God luvs America

Probably safer in jail. Lol. He can buy protection.


10 posted on 07/03/2025 11:16:31 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Sometimes you just have to wonder what kind of rat’s nest of a brain some people have.

Here this guy wins enough money to solve any and all of his problems * 1000x

And the first thing he does is to violate his parole, kick somebodys face in, and assault a cop. At the luxury resort he goes to celebrate his big win.


11 posted on 07/03/2025 11:17:19 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (The Democrat breadlines will be gluten-free. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Cup ‘o noodles on tap.


12 posted on 07/03/2025 11:21:09 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Yes chum not like in pal but shark bait.

He’s proof luck is no lady.


13 posted on 07/03/2025 11:38:36 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: PGR88

Matthew 5:44-46..

44 But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you,

45 that ye may be the children of your Father who is in Heaven. For He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46 For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?


14 posted on 07/03/2025 11:42:48 AM PDT by unread
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Lotteries are a tax on the poor and stupid. And even when they “win” studies have shown that their lives go downhill as people are always after their money, they don’t know how to handle their newfound wealth, and the stress of it all takes its toll. If you hate your enemy, pray for them to win a lottery.


15 posted on 07/03/2025 11:49:10 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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—”And even when they “win” studies have shown that their lives go downhill”

A friend of a friend won two million.
A few years later, he said he overspent and had to return to work.


16 posted on 07/03/2025 12:28:16 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messag)
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To: EnderWiggin1970

It’s kinda like what Dave Ramsey frequently says. Money will only enhance who you already are inside. I’m always astounded that some people who inherit or win jackpots can wind up in poverty and utterly destroy their own lives through unwise choices.


17 posted on 07/03/2025 12:29:14 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: cherry

Like me.


18 posted on 07/03/2025 12:45:00 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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To: Seruzawa

He probably violated parole in order to claim the prize. He will finish out his sentence until people forget that he won.


19 posted on 07/03/2025 12:45:51 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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To: tflabo

Ignorance on money matters. To somebody without money, a couple of million looks like enough that it will last forever, so they spend that way.


20 posted on 07/03/2025 12:46:54 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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