Posted on 01/06/2017 4:14:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A Pennsylvania lottery player who kept buying losing scratch-off tickets called her string of losses a conspiracy and threatened to kill employees at state lottery headquarters, authorities said.
Towanda A. Shields is wanted on 53 charges, including harassment, stalking and terroristic threats, for phone calls and voice-mail messages that police said started as a “nuisance” last year and escalated into a “relentless” stream of hostile, sexually explicit and threatening statements to Pennsylvania Lottery officials in Lower Swatara Township.
Police there issued a warrant for her arrest Tuesday and are working with authorities in Philadelphia, where Shields lives, to bring her into custody.
“You can’t look at it and say, ‘This is just somebody venting,’ ” Lower Swatara Township Police Detective Robert Appleby told The Washington Post. “To go as long and hard as she did, you start to wonder if she was going to go any further.”(continued)
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I thought this was going to be about Hillary :O
Towanda.
Lancaster County Amish?
This is bigger than you know, they do the same thing to me!!!! I keep buying tickets and I never win!!! LOL
She could be a farmer will all those corn rows.
Well, the lottery ads do seem to imply that you’ll be better off if you play. I’m betting this woman isn’t the sharpest tack in the box which is just who the ads are aimed at.
Towanda
My thoughts exactly!!!!!!!
Victim of Public Skools.
i got 3 of 6 in the last powerball. It should be me who should go ballistic LOL
Yeah, they’re big on the lottery.
Another Twilight Zone script comes to life.
Husband reluctantly accompanies wife on “free” trip to Vegas and finds himself consumed by a slot machine.
Towanda A. Shields is wanted on 53 charges ~~ HA!
Towanda spent much of her unearned income paid by for the hardworking taxpayers in the USA, and still could not grasp the concept of, LOTTO = Ghetto Tax! Dumbass!
:^)
I always win the lottery. I win $1 every time I don’t play, which is every day.
Towanda Brawley?
Stopped at Towanda.
My old man always said “Lottery is a tax on stupid people. You have better odds of getting hit by lightning. If you’re going to gamble, play poker or blackjack. Everything else is crap.”.
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