ridiculous....

[slipknotpsycho]

actually it's FUCKING ridiculous, but i figured i'd save a mod the touble of editing my title

anyways, just read it...

Lottery winner wasn't supposed to gamble - Yahoo! News

BOSTON - The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all: He's a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to gamble. Timothy Elliott faces a Dec. 7 court hearing over whether he violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the $800 Million Spectacular game at a supermarket in Hyannis.

Elliott was placed on five years' probation after pleading guilty in October 2006 to unarmed robbery for a January 2006 heist at a bank on Cape Cod. Under terms of his probation, he "may not gamble, purchase lottery tickets or visit an establishment where gaming is conducted, including restaurants where Keno may be played."

Elliott, 55, has collected the first of 20 annual $50,000 checks from the Massachusetts lottery commission. A picture of Elliott, holding his first check, was posted on the lottery's Web site Monday, though it was removed by Wednesday.

As part of his sentence, Elliott was put under the care of the state Mental Health Department and sent to a hospital for treatment, and state officials refused Wednesday to say whether he was still being treated.

A telephone number for Elliott could not immediately be located Wednesday, and it was not clear whether he had a lawyer.

The lottery routinely cross references the names of winners with the state Revenue Department to see if they owe back taxes or child support, lottery spokesman Dan Rosenfeld said. In those cases, winnings go straight to the Revenue Department.

But in this case, it will be up to the court to determine what will happen with Elliott's winnings.

"This is kind of new territory," he said.

slipknotpsycho Reviewed by slipknotpsycho on 11-29-2007. ridiculous.... actually it's FUCKING ridiculous, but i figured i'd save a mod the touble of editing my title :p anyways, just read it... Lottery winner wasn't supposed to gamble - Yahoo! News Rating: 5

[FlyGuyOU]

im kinda confused why, if you rob banks you can't gamble

[ATrain]

That would blow hardcore if they took his scratch! I suppose it'd be a little dose of karma considering he tried to steal someone else's money but I say give the man his coin!

:jointsmile:

[friendowl]

i wonder if he has to give back the 50 grand check he received
easy come easy go

[mfqr]

That's actually pretty lame. Why do you think this guy was robbin' places anyway? Duh, cuz he needed money. Now he'll never need to rob again... so wouldn't this do quite the opposite of what they think they're trying to do? So he ends up having no choice but to rob some place again..

[sd6515]

Yeah but I don't get that he had to of known it was in his probation agreement not to gamble why would he claim it I would have someone else do it, I mean if you get a speeding ticket in another county on probation when you're not supposed to leave yours you get fucked, why wouldn't he think they would find out he won $1 million. That's almost as bad as that guy who tried to cash the million dollar bill. So either there is something wrong with this guy or he really is just an idiot, of course that can not be ruled out when his previous crime was robbing a bank unarmed, I wonder why someone with this guys intelligence wasn't able to get away with an unarmed robbery lol.

[Weedhound]

Of course he knew.....ha ha I don't have one bit of sympathy for him. What goes around comes around. I love it. :thumbsup: