Posted on 05/14/2021 7:02:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
This is not the best way to launder money.
A lotto winner who bought a winning $26 million SuperLotto Plus ticket at a California gas station last year accidentally washed away her winnings in the laundry, according to KTLA.
The unidentified woman had until Thursday to claim her prize, and speculation about the unclaimed fortune made national news in recent days.
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I bought one ticket a couple of decades ago. My belief was that if God wanted me to win, I only had to buy one.
I prayed for years to win the lottery. One night in a dream, I got a message from an angel... “you could at least buy a ticket!”
I wonder if she still buys lottery tickets.
As is often said; The lottery is a voluntary tax on stupid people.
This is the kind of haunting event that would be difficult to deal with.
Maybe she heard about money laundering.
“You’re doing it wrong.”
Reminds me of an old joke:
A man is broke and has lost all of his money due to medical bills. His wife is ready to take the kids and leave him. He is about to lose his house and all of his possessions. Out of desperation, he prays to god: “Dear Lord, please let me win the lottery, I’m about to lose my house!!!”. The lottery comes and goes, and the man doesn’t win, and the bank forecloses on his house.
So next week comes along and he prays to god again “Dear Lord, please, I need to win the lottery. I am homeless and if I don’t win, my wife and kids are going to leave me!”. Again, the lottery goes by and he doesn’t win. His wife leaves and takes the kids with her.
Finally, the man, completely filled with despair, says to god “Dear god, this is it. I have lost my house, my family, everything! If I don’t win the lottery this week then I am going to kill myself”. Suddenly, a huge booming light flashes in the sky and the man hears
Suddenly, a huge booming light flashes in the sky and the man hears a loud voice from the sky say “Okay buddy, you gotta help me out here and buy a freaking ticket!”
This is the kind of haunting event that would be difficult to deal with.
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Naaah. What’s haunting is that poor slob with $220 Million in a cryptocurrency account. And he has lost his password.
Orwell’s quote on the lottery in “1984” has forever shaped my disdain for this poor people’s tax.
“The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made their living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being nonexistent persons.”
I’ve never bought one.
But, you can’t lose if you don’t play. Boortz called lotteries “taxes on the stupid”.
They had to figure out some way to tax the poor.
Suddenly, a huge booming light flashes in the sky and the man hears...
Is that the punch line? :)
Oops. I responded to the last one before I saw this one. ;)
I didn’t buy any tickets this last week because I could see myself finding out that I won and was immediately crushed by the Chinese rocket. I would then be known in history as irony man.
More than $1 billion in unclaimed prizes has been given to Golden State schools, officials said.
And, in that time, CA schools have gone from First to Worst.
That’s exactly it. If it weren’t for cigarettes, booze and lottery tickets the poor would be largely untaxed. I guess marijuana too now in some states.
So God and St Peter decide to hit the links and play a few rounds of golf. St Peter tees up and hits a magnificent shotn 400 yds straight as an arrow and it lands on the green rolling to within 2 ft of the cup.
Smugly St Peter turns to God and says “let’s see you beat that”
God smiles and tees up and with his golden driver hits a truly mighty shot straight as an arrow and 300 ft up in the air where a Bald Eagle swoops down and grabs the ball in mid flight and carries it up to 5000 ft where he lets it drop. The golf ball plummets down onto the top of a car in the parking lot adjacent to the 1st hole. It bounces off the roof of the car and onto the black top where it is grabbed by a dog who proceeds to run onto the course and over to the 1st hole where he drops it right into the cup.
St Peter,watches this whole thing and turns to God and says, “Hey man, do you want to play golf or are you just gonna f*ck around”?
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