Posted on 05/26/2007 3:33:16 AM PDT by jawz
Rocky Mount Randolph and Sandra Whitehead planned to get out of their small house, buy a car they could depend on and pay their bills. After all, they had just won $250,000 in the state lottery. But those dreams came crashing down when their road to riches took a sudden U-turn. Sandra Whitehead had been waiting for her big break. She has severe asthma, and her husband is on disability. Neither of them work, so they play the lottery.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1446448/
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Professional lottery players?
Maybe put Pissant in charge or something?
A small particle of latex was over the number! That is so funny for some reason to me. In a way, I really feel for these people, but on the other, they paid 200 dollars for a taxi ride. They really need to get their priorities right. I mean you have six months to collect the money and they went the next day?
Fortunately, they're still out of work, so they can keep playing the lottery. Because people with no income have lots of money for lottery tickets.
How long before somebody comes up with the bright idea “Give them the money, the state can afford it and it will be better than the bad publicity the lottery will receive?” We already know they do not work and they DEPEND on the lottery.
Maybe Reverend Al or Reverend Jesse can pony up a couple hundred grand?
This is really a testament to the mentality of these people: "winners in life's lottery" that Dick Gephart mentioned? That's their "dream"?
Most reasonably sane people recognize that gambling in games of chance are NOT a reliable way to achieve the American dream, but then, let's let somebody else pay for my dream...
This is the mentality of the voters that support Democrats; they RELIE on these people who think the Gubmint should provide their success....
Neither of them work,
so they play the lottery.
Doug from Upland, paging Doug from Upland,
there's a song in there somewhere can you do something here?
Recently over heard a suspected welfare recipient bragging on her cell phone,
“you should see my new apartment, it’s the bomb”,
when carrying a pillow to buy in the Salvation Army Store,
I’m going to suspect one is on welfare.
Because people with no income have lots of money for lottery tickets.
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Oh they have income, the tax payers give it to them, they just do not earn it.
Lottery=tax on the stupid.
when carrying a pillow to buy in the Salvation Army Store,
Im going to suspect one is on welfare.
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Welfare recipients do not shop at the Salvation Army Stores. That would be beneath them.
looking at the picture, the lady has a nice manicure as well.. but then again perhaps she did it her self..
Something about this doesn’t make sense.
I’ve played lottery tickets in quite a few states, and they almost all have a second or even third validation code embedded somewhere, either on the border area of the tickets, or in the bar code.
If the ticket passed the computer validation I’m inclined to think it was good.
Neither of them work, so they play the lottery.
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Ooh! They may not work ,but they eat well.
Only in America.
I hate the lottery. The tickets are sold in the local grocery stores.
I’m in line trying to buy a bag of muffins and the poor checkout clerk has to step away from the counter to service a ten deep line of suckers buying lotto tickets. So I have to wait and wait while the marks are sold their daily fix.
If I had my way, state lotto tickets would be sold where most lotto tickets end up - the county dump.
If the ticket passed the computer validation Im inclined to think it was good.
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The computer validation was the problem, that is where the mistake was discovered.
They may play a $1 a week or month for all we know. Anyway, what sucks is the lottery commission told them they were winners, took pictures with a check, the whole nine yards before coming back and saying, oops, you didn’t win. I think they have a fair argument you don’t lead somebody on like that.
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