Er, lady, the point is to help other people. While you’re in prison, you won’t be able to steal their money any more.
(Also, you won’t be able to buy more lottery tickets, so it does help you after all.) :rolleyes:
Prison is for punishing, not helping.
Don’t bookkeepers have to know math? How does such a person get addicted to the lottery of all things? And $2.3mil, isn’t that enough money to just keep as a decent lottery win?
How do you spend $6000 a day on the lottery?
Not just in the “how can you get to the mental state where you can blow that much money on lottery tickets,” but “literally how can you spend $6000 on lottery tickets?” Do you go to your local 7-Eleven and ask for $3000 in scratch offs? Do they have the capacity to handle that kind of cash? Do you even use cash? Or do you do it with checks? Will they have $3000 worth of tickets behind the counter if they can handle the cash? Do you spend $100 here $100 there at 60 different places? Do you have enough time in a day to go to that many places and buy tickets?
How does this work?
$6000 on the ponies or at a casino or to a bookie seems very possible. But lotto?
I used to work in a convenience store and we didn’t even have that many tickets onhand. I had one lady go through an entire roll of tickets (at that time - 1999 - they came in rolls of 300, I’m not sure about now) in a day, but that was it. She won $150 on one or something and bought the rest of the roll chasing that high. It never came.
Didnt she ever win?
I was reading this article on the way to work. Classic “blame everyone but myself” response. A criminal trial is not where she should be seeking help, and claiming to see a therapist after getting help is too little, too late.
Knowing numbers (though not necessarily understanding odds and statistics) wouldn’t help her addiction. Maybe she can get some therapy for her addiction in prison. However, she stole to fuel her addiction, and she deserves punishment. We can argue if 4-12 years is too little, too much, or just right. What can’t be argued is that she repeatedly and deliberately stole and regardless of addiction, that deserves punishment (she can argue that, but it will fall on ears as deaf as the court’s).
Yep…12 years.
I’ve seen scratchoffs as high as $10 each. CA also has 4 regular lottos (state lotto and mega millions that each draw twice a week), 2 daily drawings of pick 3, the daily derby, fantasy 5 that draws daily and a keno like game called hotspot that draws every 5 minutes. :eek:
I realize the story is about someone in NY but yes, it’s doable to spend that kind of dough.
I saw a scratch-off vending machine once that had books of scratch-offs for $20. And I’ve seen someone buy $50 of regular tickets at a time. It happens.
Still, it does seem physically improbable. Maybe she had enablers/accomplices to help her with all that scratching and number picking.
It’s not like seh couldn’t go from vendor to vendor. Every strip mall will have 1-3, and every main drag on Long Island is lined with strip mall after strip mall. Babylon is not out in the sticks. Plus, vendors getting a regular, high-spending customer could order appropriately.
Amazing. Talk about a sense of entitlement.
Good thing I’m not a judge. I’d be all “Helping you? Helping you? How about fuck you, lady, do you understand that?”
At some point, doesn’t that become more trouble than a regular job?
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She had a regular job. Depending upon traffic, she could hit 6-9 shops in an hour. Sad thing is, she could hit a big winner, and it wouldn’t matter. As Deep Purple said (about a different subject), “It’s not the kill, it’s the thrill of the chase.”
I was wondering the same thing…if she spent $2.3 million, chances are she must have one once in a while.
I seem to remember hearing the original story about this when she first got arrested and yes, she did win occasionally. Several thousand dollars, in fact. As others have stated above, winning only seemed to fuel the fire.
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Guess she managed to win an all expenses trip with food and accomodation provided.
I hope she never scores a garden trowel while in prison. Someone with a scratch-off Jones that bad could definitely pull a ‘Shawshank’ style escape. 
It’s easy if you buy “Quick Picks” in the regular lottery. I’ve seen people get a few hundred at a pop when the lottery gets big and it only takes a few minutes.