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Ok, Arkansas finally started a lottery and one of the first big winners is now being thrust into the spotlight as a criminal. Unfortunately the timeline of the events is not considered before the sensationalist paparazzi have their articles published and not even the local newscasters are considering the truth before they draw attention to one of our lowlifes.
Seems this man was out looking for some seedy entertainment and an undercover police officer offered to perform oral sex on him. I’m sure some payment was expected but so far the other articles and stories don’t specify who asked or offered nor the amount that the services were worth. Anyhow, in order to receive his entertainment, he had to expose himself to the officer, only natural since these transactions cannot be performed with all your clothes on and zipped or buttoned up. About the time he got his tool out, the officer decided to identify themselves as a police officer and proceeded to arrest him for all the supposedly bad things he was doing. Soliciting, exposing himself and, if the articles are true, being in possession of narcotics.
There is just one MAJOR problem with the whole story and the timeline. The arrest occurred in August, more than a month before the lottery was even opened for ticket sales.
So truth be told, this whole story is not about a lottery winner who got in trouble with the law, it is about a person who was in trouble with the law who bought a winning lottery ticket.
Why do I make the distinction? Because a lottery winner who gets in trouble with the law sheds a bad light upon the entire lottery, and those who oppose lotteries will use an incident like this to their advantage in fighting to get the lottery outlawed. But a criminal who buys a winning lottery ticket is just a lucky crook and usually a dumb one, which there is no doubt, this guy is.
Instead of holding on to his winning ticket for a few days or weeks, he claimed his prize (100K) and then went in front of a judge and claimed that he was indigent and wanted a free lawyer! STUPIDIDITY on two feet. The judge denied his request and gave him a week to get one on his own dime; with 100,000 dollars he should be able to get a fairly good one.
In case my point is a little muddled up in this rant, here it is: Reporters, newscasters and any other person who jumps on this story and tries to make the lottery out as the bad influence for making this guy well off for a few days and causing him to do bad things, need to have their ethics examined by someone with more smarts than they have. I’ll take that job if no one else wants it. The lottery is not the culprit here, this guy was doing bad things before the lottery even existed in this state and the very case in question’s date of the crimes occurrence is more than a month before the lottery sold it’s first ticket!
Come on folks, if news is that hard to dig up, do a dog story or show movies of the sunset.