I love it when poor white trash gets lucky.
I don’t know about him, but she’s from an old food stamps family. Watch who you are calling PWT.
Based on the comments from her customers and the staff of the convenience store it sure sounds as though she’s turned her life around. I hope that this doesn’t bring her bad luck along with the good.
Jealous?
Who the hell are you to sit on your ivory tower and call someone “Poor white trash” based on past mistakes and pictures? You know nothing of these people or their families.
Go paint your house with that wide brush of yours.
We had a fucking serial rapist win the lottery in the UK - while in jail.
Bless her heart. I hope that the money helps her out a great deal. What a past to come out from under. She sounds like good people.
Ain’t no background check on the Lottery, and I’m glad of that.
Better her than the first assholes who won the PowerBall in Wisconsin, back when it was a flat $2 million to start, no cash option (around 1990-ish). ($100k per year for 20 years. Period.) One half of the couple was a Doctor, the other a Lawyer. They declared that it wasn’t enough money to change their lives. THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU BUY A TICKET???
I also remember the rich bitch who tried to step forward and claim the very first winning jackpot in Minnesota, claiming that Oh, she had won, but her maid had accidentally destroyed the ticket. But she did win, she swears, so give her the money! Unfortunately, I think she got off with a warning, rather than actual jail time for attempted fraud.
How does one qualify as being “poor white trash?”
I just don’t like that descriptor. Especially when referring to the lady, who seems to have turned her life around and has made a positive impression on the people in her community.
Isn’t is a bit odd for the OP (a woman who has told the SDMB many times that she is a 30 year-long junkie/alcoholic who only recently got clean) to cast stones at others, especially on this particular subject?
Lahti is a Finnish name. Odd, you rarely see people in America with Finnish last names.
Now that they are so rich, they can change their name to Lahti-da.
Ever been to Minnesota? We even have a town called Suomi–which is how you spell Finland, in Finish.
Classy.
Mrs. Lahti should be able to afford a damn fine lawyer to assist her in assuring her husband gets just reward for his spousal affection. Or not.
Ha!
Jesus & Magdalene: The Untold Story
OK, that made me laugh. Nicely done.
Ok, smarty pants. Now give me a cite on if I qualify as a nigger.
I think we can cite Chris Rock on that one.