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Thursday, August 24, 2006
You’ve Just Stolen $2.3 Million, What Will You Do With It?
I’m going to pay off all of our bills and our house, then invest the rest. What did Annie Donnelly do with it? I’ll bet the answer will surprise you.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman stole $2.3 million from her employers and spent the money on lottery tickets, buying as much as $6,000 worth of tickets a day in a bid to hit the jackpot, prosecutors said on Thursday.
YES, she bought six thousand scratchers a day. To win money. Uh, hello, she HAD the money! She stole way more money than she’d ever be able to win with a scratch-off ticket. I mean, geez, she wasn’t even buying Powerball tickets. She was buying cheapo labor-intensive scratch off tickets. What the hell kind of crazy addiction is that? I understand drug addiction, alcohol, shoplifting, cutting, OCD, etc. I don’t understand spending MORE money to get LESS money and having to work really hard to do so. Seriously, if you want to gamble, just gamble. Play blackjack or craps, or if you want terrible odds, play keno. Even play boring slots. But scratchers? It’s mind-boggling. Also, imagine how embarassing that’s going to be when her cellmate asks what she’s in for.
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wow. that’s, like, the dumbest fucking thing i’ve ever heard.
sweetney on 08/25 at 03:34 AM -
Although normally I try to dispel the notion that Georgia is populated by slack-jawed, dangerously inbred yokels, this story reminded me of a local couple who made the news a few years ago. The couple made several hundred thou in a check-kiting scheme, so guess what they splurged on? They got busted at their double-wide which was filled with hundreds, HUNDREDS, I tell you, of velvet Elvis pictures.I’m not making this up.
Helly on 08/25 at 04:57 AM -
Maybe she wasn’t anywhere near a casino, yet she was trying to win money so she could pay back what she stole! I’m sure she wasn’t sleeping at night…
on 08/25 at 04:46 PM -
But if she wanted money, all she had to do was keep the money she stole. Do you think that maybe she started out just stealing, but then wanted to try to pay it back, so gambled to try to make lots of money, so she could keep some and then pay back what she stole?
I’m sure she wasn’t sleeping either. It had to have been a horrible addiction. At least with drugs or alcohol there must be occasional relief when you’re high. This seemed like all stress, all the time. Horrible.
on 08/26 at 10:53 PM
