Let’s see if you can figure out part of this story with just a few pictures.
The guy on the right, 52, bought a scratch-off 3 years ago and won ten million bucks. That’s him with his wife.
This is the murder victim-
She was 23 years old.
Hmmm, I wonder who she could have been?
Lemme guess — she had a “surprise” to show him, and he didn’t take it well?
Poor Keonna…..texting other men!
FJB
Another lottery dumbass. Some people were just never meant to have money.
…I know of a guy who once won a $4 mil lottery (in phat, Reagan-era dollars, roughly 10 mil today), immediately bought the fastest car he could, wrecked it and lost his leg, got miserable and started fighting with his backdoor neighbor, and apparently spent most of it on medical bills and legal fees from suing and being sued by his neighbor.
One time we picked him up in the ambulance and the police confiscated his leg because he had taken it off and used it to beat his neghbor with, who went to the hospital in a separate ambulance. Our dumbass squad captain sent them both to the same hospital, though, and the guy with both legs used them to go to the bay where the one-legged guy was, and they resumed the fighting there while we were still writing the report. We had to sit on the one-legged guy and take down the two-legged one and sit on HIM, too, till the security guy finished his trip to the bathroom, apparently, and local LEOs showed up.
…the point is, you are who you are. Money won’t change it.
As a corollary in this particular situation, money might get you laid by a young hottie, but it’s the money she’s sleeping with.
Not you.
Go hire a hooker if you really need your itch scratched. It’s probably cheaper and just about as sincere.
And you don’t have to murder her when you find out she’s faking, because you know that “going in”.
So to speak.
…and you’ll be just as divorced either way, especially when the herpes shows up, but at least you won’t be in jail…
Winning a $10M lottery tells the world that you’re dumb enough to play the lottery. Nothing else you do will be a surprise.
“Go hire a hooker if you really need your itch scratched”
Yeah. You’re not really paying for the sex. You’re paying for them to go away afterwards.
So right about “you are who you are”. Having sudden riches really shows who you are.
The only lottery I ever won was the draft lottery in 1972. I don’t gamble, I hate casinos and don’t my spend money on lottery tickets. I have everything I need out of the bounty of God’s grace and don’t need or want to be tempted by having an excess of more money than I can use. And the old adage is true, you can’t take it with you, all it would do would be for everyone in my family to fight over it after I croaked.
Well we all know money doesn’t make you smart. See Washington…
But….does he get to keep the money?
Jethro
JUNE 1, 2022 AT 9:21 AM
“But….does he get to keep the money?”
…I would imagine so, as it wasn’t the result of a crime (only politicians are allowed to profit from their own criminal activity).
However, I would imagine that half goes to the aggrieved wife, what with the divorce and all, and much of the other half (that taxes didn’t get) to attorneys.
Which whatever family his homewrecker had will doubtlessly sue him for.
…but whatever survives THAT will remain his property. He can use it to buy shoes or whatever at the prison canteen, as long as some one that loves him makes deposits into his commissary account.
But considering he betrayed one of his women and murdered the other, I’m not sure who that would be…
geoff the aardvark
JUNE 1, 2022 AT 8:36 AM
“I have everything I need out of the bounty of God’s grace and don’t need or want to be tempted by having an excess of more money than I can use.”
…you’re probably right.
But I’m not sure Tevye agrees…
https://youtu.be/RBHZFYpQ6nc
Well, if she wasn’t his stepdaughter, she sure reminded him of a younger version of his wife…
SNS: Not that is was anywhere near as extreme as your case, I once got T-boned by a woman who drove stringent in the left turn only lane through a red light (because someone in the straight lane was stopped). We rode to the hospital in the same ambulance and had to sit within 5-10 feet of each other in the ER waiting room.
However, that did allow me to hear the RCMP officer say to her in a raised voice “Five witnesses say you ran the red light.”
The lottery is a voluntary tax on people who are bad at statistics.
I win every time I think about playing. Hey look! I just won a dollar!
RadioMattM
JUNE 1, 2022 AT 10:20 AM
“We rode to the hospital in the same ambulance and had to sit within 5-10 feet of each other in the ER waiting room.”
…that’s not a lot of room in there even if it’s an American Hi Cube ambulance, someone lying or sitting on the bench seat would be almost touching the person on the cot. It’s going to vary depending on severity of injury and vehicle/manpower availability of course, and I have no idea how Canada does things or how American kids do now, but in my day we tried to keep potential combatants as separated as possible for a number of reasons, some less obvious than others.
My punchy guys are one example of why, but even with folks that DON’T have a history of duking it out, tempers can be short (as I’m sure you’re aware) if the injuries were sustained in a way that’s going to be contentious, and tempers can flare in such cramped confines, and further physical damage may happen before it can be stopped. I was a tall, lanky, ugly bastard so I at least had a chance if it came to blows, but one of our best medics was a tiny woman who might have weighted 100 pounds fully geared up, and SHE wasn’t going to be separating anyone in a physical confrontation, so it was something of an OSHA thing from that point of view to just defuse a situation before it starts.
Too, even if you two were verbally sniping, if I’m in the back and hear you, I can be subpoenaed to testify if I heard either of you say anything incriminating. No one needs or wants that, least of all ME.
Also, if you do it right (and not everyone does), you’re not bucking a TC patient to the hospital without the whole panoply of spinal immobilization. Backboard, C-collar, Bashaw chocks, everything else strapped down and/or splinted or bandaged as needed. This is because there’s a good chance of the service getting sued if you don’t because we don’t have field X-ray service, but also because you genuinely may have injuries that adrenaline is masking but can’t forever, muscle splinting may be going on, lots of things. You may be fine, or you may have a C2 fracture that you can’t feel that will cause you to flop bonelessly in the bench seat and quit breathing all the sudden if I just prop you up like a bus passenger and my driver has to hard stop, causing your untethered head to move suddenly sideways and severing some important nerves. I ain’t taking that chance. You don’t have to agree, but you’re not getting on my buggy if you don’t. This takes a LOT of room, and I also have to watch over folks so immobilized to see if they’re deteriorating, having trouble breathing, or just getting sick lying on their back in a moving vehicle. If I have you and Mrs. Popalight side by side, it’s gonna be cramped to say the least, not to mention the nightmare of trying to manage everyone’s airline and IV tubing if so required.
…ok, this is WAY too in the weeds and very situation specific, but you see what I’m saying.
You don’t want to transport antagonists together if at all avoidable, doubly so if trauma is an issue.
And just plain keeping them aoart in the hospital will help save EVERYONE’S sanity as I’m sure you’ll agree.
Sounds like someone wasn’t impressed with your wreck if they sat you down in the waiting room at triage, but you don’t tell me when this was. All I can say is that would have been quite uncommon in an American hospital of a decade or two or three ago, but much more likely now; and, since we’re catching up to you on socialized medicine, maybe you were there before us…
Jeez… just put that one back on the shelf and get another! They’re all over the place. Whadda maroon! If she didn’t love you when you were broke she don’t love you now, dummy!
alleged old Chinese saying: sudden wealth does not change people, it merely reveals who they are.
no old Chinese or Indian person I know ever heard any old Chinese or Indian sayings. odd, that