# You're too stupid to be a millionaire!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995 "2004-01-06T13:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/81 "2004-01-08T01:02:48Z")
Someone once said, “If you’re going to tell a lie, tell a big one.” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/82 "2004-01-08T18:25:02Z")
[She lied](http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040108/D7VUPEM00.html). ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/83 "2004-01-08T18:41:17Z")
Well, time for the “bubba” jokes. Stupid bitch. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/84 "2004-01-08T19:14:23Z")
She still a lying sack of shit, even in her “admission”. > [@](#): > > Elecia Battle, 40, is dropping her lawsuit to block payment of the 11-state Mega Millions jackpot to the certified winner, her lawyer Sheldon Starke said. > > “I wanted to win,” Battle said. “The numbers were so overwhelming. I did buy a ticket and I lost it. I wanted to win so bad for my kids and my family. I apologize.” Hmm, how can I come off as less of a lying scumbag? > [@](#): > > Battle apologized to her husband, her lawyer and Jemison, saying she wanted to use the money to help her family and recently laid-off Cleveland police officers. > > “I’m not a bad person, I’m really not,” she said. “Everyone has a past.” And what a colorful past she has. > [@](#): > > Police and court records show Battle has a criminal history. > > While working at a Richmond Heights pharmacy in 1999, Battle used a customer’s credit card number to make purchases, police said. She paid a $450 fine for misuse of a credit card, and a 10-day jail sentence was suspended. > > Battle was convicted in 2000 in Cleveland Heights of assault for grabbing a drug store clerk’s hair and scratching her, according to police records. Battle got a six-month suspended sentence. > > She was convicted of criminal trespassing in 2002 and paid restitution of about $1,250, according to South Euclid court records. Fines were suspended because she was indigent. What a wonderful human being. . . :mad: ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/85 "2004-01-08T19:16:17Z")
Oops, linkty link-a-roo: [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=3&u=/ap/20040108/ap\_on\_re\_us/mega\_millions\_winner](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=3&u=/ap/20040108/ap_on_re_us/mega_millions_winner) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/86 "2004-01-08T20:10:09Z")
What a lying sack of shit she is. First she claimed that she was never convicted of any crime, then when they come up with proof that she was, she blows it off by saying that she never served any jail time. ---
**Author:** ![margin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@margin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/margin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/87 "2004-01-09T04:14:12Z")
Now she’s on TV, sobbing about how she just ‘wanted it so bad’ for her children. Sure, she did. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/88 "2004-01-09T04:21:48Z")
How can she afford to pay an attorney? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/89 "2004-01-09T09:22:23Z")
The lawyer gets 1/3 of nothing. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/90 "2004-01-09T14:11:39Z")
The lawyer should get sanctions too. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/91 "2004-01-09T14:33:58Z")
She was fined $450 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/92 "2004-01-09T21:53:01Z")
That’s not all! > [@](#): > > [CBS News](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/national/main592412.shtml) > The woman who said she lost the winning $162 million Mega Millions lottery ticket has been charged with filing a false police report. > > Elecia Battle went to the police station Friday with her attorney and admitted making the false claim that she lost the winning ticket, police Lt. Kevin Nietert said. > > “She’s made a full admission to the fact that she did file a false police report,” Nietert said. > > If convicted of the misdemeanor falsification charge, she faces a penalty of 30 days to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995/93 "2004-01-09T21:59:03Z")
**World Eater** , the $450 fine was for [misuse of a credit card](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040108/ap_on_re_us/mega_millions_winner_26). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-too-stupid-to-be-a-millionaire/222995.md?page=4)