Woman must forfeit $1M in lottery winnings
Written on Friday, August 10, 2007 by Jessica
When I saw the above headline, I thought, "Oooh, that sucks. I wonder what happened. I hope it's not something dumb like, 'Judge says woman must forfeit winnings because she let her minor son scratch off the ticket. State law says only adults can participate in the lottery by scratching off tickets.'" Here's what really happened:
A local woman must turn over her lottery winnings after a judge said she won them illegally.Thought process continues, "Ah, illegal winnings. That explains it. I still feel a little sorry for her, though."
Prosecutors said Christina Goodenow, of White City, used a credit card that belonged to her then-boyfriend's dead mother to buy a winning $1 million Scratch-It ticket in Oct. 2005."Ohhhhh, now THAT'S a bummer. How unlucky can someone get? You finally buy a winning lotter ticket, but you do it with a credit card you're using illegally."
But then the truth comes out:
Goodenow asked lottery officials to keep her win quiet, claiming to be a victim of domestic violence. But police learned of the crime about two weeks later, as Goodenow continued to use the stolen credit card (my emphasis).This idiot wins a million bucks but continues to use the credit card illegally. A million dollars isn't enough money for her to feel like she can cut and run?
http://www.kptv.com/news/13864627/detail.html
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Oh good lord..... this woman is a complete idiot.
she is #2 on my "dumb ass" list.
#1 is a woman who poisoned her husband, was too impatient to wait for the death certificate to claim the insurance money, so she called the police suggesting different poisons that could have killed her husband. Dumb ass indeed
Z.
Finally, someone that makes me look smart