If I won a sum of money that big, that would be the last you heard from me. I would disappear but good.
Posted on 09/21/2004 7:06:20 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
WINFIELD, W.Va. — Three men burglarized the home of Jack Whittaker (search), winner of the biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, as an acquaintance of Whittaker's lay dead inside, police said Tuesday.The break-in took place Thursday night or Friday morning.
.... One of those arrested reported Tribble's death late Friday morning, Dailey said. Tribble was a friend of Whittaker's granddaughter, and all three suspects were acquainted with Tribble.
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Obviously not Klingons.
If I won a sum of money that big, that would be the last you heard from me. I would disappear but good.
LMAO!
Hmmm, I'd take my chances! ;-)
Someone needs to make a tv movive about this guy Whittaker. If there was ever anyone that didn't know how to handle 113 million dollars, it's him. Bizzare story after bizzare story.
Me, too. What else could you do? How can anyone think that if they sign the lottery ticket form saying they'll geek for the local lottery commission on TV and allow their name to be published that their lives will continue to be peaceful?
A couple of years ago I read that there was some sort of lottery retrospective study done, and most big (maybe not huge, like this guy) winners had blown the money and not stayed happy very long.
I have negative luck.
I live through stuff that I shouldn't, but anything beyond that is not possible.
;-)
LOL. This is the same guy that left a briefcase with $250,000 in cash on the front seat of his car while he was inside a strip joint. He was surprised that his briefcase was gone when he returned to his car to drive home.
the day I win is the day I buy the Deluxe Winnebego and disappear into a sunset for at least 4 or 5 years.
ah, 'tis but a dream
Nobody said that winning a huge or any jackpot would make a person smart.
Cool--that was probably for the SECOND strip joint he was headed for that night.
This guy hasn't been out of the news since he won the lottery. Bad stuff continues to happen to him. You'd think he'd get a clue by now.
Gee whiz Atomicpossum, we thought you were here for the long haul. Guess you are just here for the "good times". :-P
You couldn't disappear from us. You'd just have more time to post and posit.
I've been looking for studies like this but haven't found any. If you can think of where you read this please let me know.
I'd hang around just long enough to get and cash out that first check, disconnect the phone, and have several sets of fake ID made up. After that, you might stumble across me somewhere in the Southwestern US if you were a good tracker or hunter. But I wouldn't bet the ranch on it.
Same here, all you would see would be the taillights of my Ford pickup with a new Yamaha YZ-450 on the back of it thru a thick, black cloud of diesel smoke......
Gee whiz Atomicpossum, we thought you were here for the long haul. Guess you are just here for the "good times". :-P I'd have to disappear. When word got out that I had that much money, John Kerry would probably keep trying to marry me.
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Wow... what a winner!
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