Nothing. But that tribble thing is bothersome.
Posted on 12/01/2004 3:45:32 PM PST by decimon
Heck, that's an easy one.
Poor (sic) Jack has been set up to teach us all that we should be careful what we wish for....especially on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
I still wish for it to happen to me. I don't think I'd be an idiot like "poor" Jack, if I did win.
What's wrong with carrying a lot of cash and a gun in your boot?
If God had wanted a lottery, he would have let me win.
As false friends and scheming relations pop out of the woodwork, people become estranged and suspicious of everybody. Close family and true friends are driven away.
People become susceptible to drug addiction, drunkenness, obesity, cheap and nasty sex for hire, and the decay of self-respect one gets by lying around useless and lazy all day. Divorces and suicides are common. Frequently people over-spend and end up in worse financial shape than when they started.
Being wealthy is fine and I am getting there fast, but only by working my @$$ off. I take that much more pleasure in the finer things in life by knowing I got them by the sweat of my brow.
-ccm
Nothing. But that tribble thing is bothersome.
It's okay to wish and dream, just be careful.
Actually, the most careful you could be would be for you to win and let me handle all the finances. I promise I won't let you get into and troubles like poor Jack.
Tho' you may wish you'd never met me.
Who knows. The fact he was a Powerball winner makes the story all the more interesting to report. Had he not won the Powerball lottery and done the same thing, it wouldn't have made the national news wires. In either case, he's a loser, even though he was once a winner.
Is this the same guy who, a while back, parked his vehicle out side of a bar, and left the engine running for several hours while he was inside the bar? He later reported that a large amount of money was stolen from him. Turns out that it was the bartender and a waitress who ripped him off.
Wouldn't surprise me if that was the same guy.
Yes, it is the same guy. It happened within 10 miles of me. The waitress and bouncer are serving time now. Whittaker was an idiot BEFORE the money.
 Chip Ellis / Associated Press
Powerball winner Jack Whittaker sits on a curb at The Pink Pony club in Cross Lanes, W.Va., after someone stole more than half a million dollars in cash from his SUV.  |
Moral to this story: (A) Don't tell any strippers you are a lotto winner (B) If you tell strippers you are a lotto winner, don't leave a brief case full of cash on the front seat of your car. Take a taxi cab to the strip joint.
Oh great! It is the same guy! LOL, This idiot will never learn!!
Cross Lanes, BTW, is the hometown of singer Kathy Mattea.
There's more:
$315M Powerball Winner Sought After DUI
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Officials planned to seek the man who won almost $315 million at Powerball on a bail violation charge after he was arrested on a DUI count in another county.
Kanawha County Magistrate Tim Halloran ordered Jack Whittaker's arrest on Thursday, two days after Whittaker was charged with driving under the influence near Beckley, in southern West Virginia's Raleigh County.
The magistrate said that arrest violated a condition of a $150 bond from a January DUI arrest in Nitro. A bail violation could send Whittaker to jail for 10 days, "especially when he's out on bail for DUI and he's arrested for DUI," prosecutor Mike Clifford said.
"My concern is not that he needs to be in jail, my concern is he ought not to be driving," Clifford said.
Whittaker's attorney, Norm Daniels, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Friday. Officials in Whittaker's home county, Putnam, said they can't take Whittaker into custody until they get the needed paperwork from Kanawha County.
Whittaker had spent Wednesday morning in jail on the Beckley charge and was released after posting a $1,700 cash bond. The 57-year-old businessman has been in the news several times since winning the largest single jackpot in history, nearly $315 million, on Christmas Day 2002. He received a one-time $113 million lump sum lottery payment and spent $14 million establishing a nonprofit foundation that aims to help West Virginians find jobs, buy food and receive education.
He faces charges of assaulting a bar manager in January in St. Albans. Three female racetrack workers sued Whittaker, alleging that he assaulted them last year, and his vehicle, business and home have allegedly been broken into multiple times, including during a late-night visit to a strip club.
The body of an 18-year-old was found at Whittaker's Scott Depot home in September. The death was not a crime, and Whittaker was out of town at the time.
< Three female racetrack workers sued Whittaker, alleging that he assaulted them last year, >
I heard that due to the incident that this refers, the racetrack no longer allows their watresses to work the VIP room. However, Whitakker is still allowed to visit the VIP room. If true, once again, money talks. I also was told what he did and it was disgustingly vulgar, if true. I haven't been able to confirm it.
This guy needs to be put away before he kills someone.
Whittaker avoids jail with rehab
Powerball winner also gives up license in deal
By Toby Coleman
Staff writer
Powerball multimillionaire Jack Whittaker agreed Tuesday to give up his driver’s license and spend four weeks in substance abuse rehabilitation to avoid jail.
Whittaker, 57, of Scott Depot has been a wanted man since Thursday, when a Kanawha County magistrate ruled that his Nov. 30 drunken driving arrest near Beckley violated the terms of his $150 bond in an 11-month-old DUI case out of Nitro.
Instead of turning himself in, Whittaker sent three lawyers to work out a deal with Kanawha County prosecutors. By Tuesday afternoon, they had crafted a deal that allowed the record lottery winner to remain free without appearing in court.
Under the terms of the deal, Whittaker will check into a substance abuse treatment facility by Jan. 2 and spend four weeks there. He cannot drive until he completes the rehabilitation program, according to court documents.
Kanawha County Prosecutor Mike Clifford agreed to the deal, even though he said last week that he thought Whittaker should spend some time in jail for violating his bond.
Clifford said he changed his position because Whittaker agreed to give up his driver’s license.
“My primary concern was to get his driver’s license away from him and prevent him from driving,” Clifford said.
“Plus, the county doesn’t have to pay for the substance abuse treatment,” he said. “They would have had to pay for his stay at the jail.”
Neither Whittaker nor his lawyer, Carter Zerbe, was available for comment Tuesday.
Whittaker won a $315 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas Day 2002, the largest lottery jackpot won by a single person in American history.
Since then, robbers have drugged Whittaker in a Cross Lanes strip club and tried to steal more than half a million dollars from his vehicle, and thieves have stolen more than $100,000 from his vehicles in other cases. He has been charged with assaulting and threatening the manager of a Putnam County bar.
Charleston Gazette, Dec. 8: http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2004120732
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