The Smoking Gun
Days after claiming a $167.3 million Powerball jackpot, a Kentucky man is behind bars, charged with kicking a cop in the face during a melee at an oceanfront hotel in Florida, The Smoking Gun has learned.
According to court records, James Farthing, a 50-year-old ex-convict, was arrested Tuesday evening on felony and misdemeanor charges in connection with a fracas at the TradeWinds Resort in St. Pete Beach.
Farthing was at the resort with Jacqueline Fightmaster, his 42-year-old girlfriend. As seen in the above photo, Farthing and Fightmaster appeared Tuesday at a Kentucky Lottery press conference announcing the Powerball win (which Farthing is splitting with his 77-year-old mother). More
Wow. Well I’ve always believed better to burn out than fade away. This might be a little over the top. “Fightmaster” Really? All things considered I’m a fan
Heh! He’s a no-good good-ol’-boy. How does that balance out?
I guess I’m sort of a fan, too. I’ll cut him a fair amount of slack, but that part about kicking the cop in the face is a bit over the top.
…I knew of a guy who won a lottery in the ’80s, when a million actually meant something.
The reason I knew of him was because he immediately bought more car than he could handle, lost his leg in the ensuing accident, and spent at least the next several years spending his money in medical and legal bills from the epix fights he indulged in with his backdoor neighbor that often rose to the level of police and EMS intervention and on at least one occasion resulted in his artifical leg being seized as evidence because he tried to club his neighbor with it in an epic fight they even tried to continue at the hospital because the Squad captain rashly routed BOTH ambulances there.
Money doesnt change people, it just lets them amplify who they already are.
Leaving the rest of us to really wish we could turn the volume back down, please…
He definitely won’t need a public defender.
SNS…..your comments never disappoint….just saying this to encourage more…. 🙂
If I was Elon Musk rich, I would buy a Formula 1 car and quickly lose my drivers license. My life expectancy would also get shorter.
You would think with that kind of money, his first act would be find a new girlfriend. You can take the white trash out of the trailer park…
Isn’t there a country song about dating a women named “fightmaster”? Because if there isn’t there sure should be.
Imagine the size of the chip on that woman’s shoulder.
It is inevitable that her life be a constant battle.
Poor white trash to rich white trash; the trash part never changes.
I once knew a man with a wooden leg named Bill. Never did know the name of his other leg.
In a poker game Rick raised his prosthetic leg, just tossed it on the table, claimed it was worth $2,500.00. I went along… my mistake.
Oceanfront resort in St Pete Beach? Which ocean would that be? The American Ocean damn it!
chuckie
Friday, 2 May 2025, 23:43 at 11:43 pm
…thats very kind of you, but some others would prefer less instead of more. All I do is post from my experiences where I think they seem appropriate, just my way of contributing to us keeping each other amused as age gnaws us from behind even as the howling ignorati of Communism batters our faces…
@ SNS , I actually find your comments to be educational, as well as amusing.