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Jackpot Winner's House Burglarized as Dead Man Lies Inside (Money Can't Buy You Love)
FoxNews ^ | 9/21/04 | AP

Posted on 09/21/2004 7:06:20 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine

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Money can't buy you love department. I always wondered if winning a big lottery would use up all of my good luck in one big shot. Here's one story.
1 posted on 09/21/2004 7:06:22 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine
all three suspects were acquainted with Tribble.

Obviously not Klingons.

2 posted on 09/21/2004 7:07:27 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
If I won a sum of money that big, that would be the last you heard from me.

I would disappear but good.

3 posted on 09/21/2004 7:08:57 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment

LMAO!


4 posted on 09/21/2004 7:10:25 PM PDT by aynrandfreak (If 9/11 didn't change you, you're a bad human being)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
I always wondered if winning a big lottery would use up all of my good luck in one big shot.

Hmmm, I'd take my chances! ;-)

5 posted on 09/21/2004 7:10:59 PM PDT by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

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.


6 posted on 09/21/2004 7:11:34 PM PDT by Oblongata
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If I won a sum of money that big, that would be the last you heard from me. I would disappear but good.

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.

7 posted on 09/21/2004 7:11:43 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I have negative luck.
I live through stuff that I shouldn't, but anything beyond that is not possible.
;-)


8 posted on 09/21/2004 7:11:44 PM PDT by Darksheare (Liberalism is political domestic abuse.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

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.


9 posted on 09/21/2004 7:12:19 PM PDT by Lockbar (Worried about lead poisoning? Then stop eating the paint chips, Dummy!)
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To: atomicpossum

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


10 posted on 09/21/2004 7:13:17 PM PDT by Will_Zurmacht
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Nobody said that winning a huge or any jackpot would make a person smart.


11 posted on 09/21/2004 7:13:59 PM PDT by taxesareforever
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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.

Cool--that was probably for the SECOND strip joint he was headed for that night.

12 posted on 09/21/2004 7:14:02 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

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.


13 posted on 09/21/2004 7:16:58 PM PDT by Lizavetta (Peace through superior firepower)
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"If I won a sum of money that big, that would be the last you heard from me. I would disappear but good"

Gee whiz Atomicpossum, we thought you were here for the long haul. Guess you are just here for the "good times". :-P

14 posted on 09/21/2004 7:17:28 PM PDT by Lockbar (Worried about lead poisoning? Then stop eating the paint chips, Dummy!)
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You couldn't disappear from us. You'd just have more time to post and posit.


15 posted on 09/21/2004 7:18:18 PM PDT by bannie (Jamma Nana!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
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'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.

16 posted on 09/21/2004 7:19:13 PM PDT by Lizavetta (Peace through superior firepower)
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To: atomicpossum
If I won a sum of money that big, that would be the last you heard from me. I would disappear but good.

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.

17 posted on 09/21/2004 7:20:59 PM PDT by asgardshill (By direct order, I LOVE ALAN KEYES!)
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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......


18 posted on 09/21/2004 7:23:36 PM PDT by dirtbiker (Solution for Terrorism: Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!)
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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.

19 posted on 09/21/2004 7:24:28 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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To: Lizavetta; Lockbar
I've done more "research." Here's two more links:

Power Ball Winner Sued for Sex-Related Assault

Power Ball Winner has More Money Stolen

Wow... what a winner!

20 posted on 09/21/2004 7:25:12 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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