Only in West Virginia?

Buccaneer · 08-05-2003, 11:41 AM

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CROSS LANES, W.Va. — Someone broke into Powerball winner Jack Whittaker's (search) sport utility vehicle outside a strip club Tuesday morning and stole about $545,000, but the money was later recovered.

Whittaker, a Scott Depot resident who hit Powerball's richest jackpot on Christmas Day, arrived at the Pink Pony in Cross Lanes around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday and parked his Lincoln Navigator outside the main entrance.

Someone broke out the driver's side window and took a black briefcase containing $245,000 in cash and three blank $100,000 cashier's checks, said Kanawha County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Phil Morris.

The briefcase, cash and checks were later found behind a Dumpster on the property, Morris said.

A window on a second vehicle parked on the lot also was broken, he said.

Police have suspects but no arrests have been made, he said.

Employees at the Pink Pony would not comment.

"[Whittaker] gambles quite a bit, and we believe that's the reason that the large sum of money was in possession in at this time," an official told the Charleston Daily Mail (search).

Tri-State Racetrack & Gaming in Nitro is about a mile from the Pink Pony, but it was not clear Tuesday morning if Whittaker had been at the greyhound track before going to the club.

Whittaker claimed a $113 million cash option after winning a record $314.9 million jackpot on Christmas Day.

Whittaker was at the club later Tuesday morning but left without commenting. His spokesman, Bill Bissett, did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment.

Copyright 2003 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved.

Nice to see the hard-earned cash of the many suckers who donated to PowerBall being put to good use.

cthomer5000 · 08-05-2003, 12:06 PM

I just won 113 million dollars. What do I now want to do most? Gamble!

How about putting "Move out of West Virginia" on your to-do list.

cuervo72 · 08-05-2003, 12:11 PM

Use money to find long lost daughter, then marry her.

QuikSand · 08-05-2003, 12:17 PM

When this guy initially won, I was deeply impressed by his statement ow what he intended to do with his money. He is a businessman, and he said that his top priority was to re-hire some of the people he had to lay off in the preceding months as the business fell on hard times. He also volunteered that he planned to tithe his customary 10% - no matter that it meant maybe ten million dollars or so.

I'm not sure we've heard the whole story here... but at least he said a lot of the right things at the time. Maybe he lived up to all that, and then decided to screw around with some of the leftovers. Doesn't seem wholly unreasonable.

Samdari · 08-05-2003, 12:21 PM

I think the first thing I would do would be hire a spokesman.

JPhillips · 08-05-2003, 12:22 PM

Was that 245,000 in ones?

Buccaneer · 08-05-2003, 12:23 PM

I didn't make the connection that it was the same guy. I blame it on the mrskippy-infested brain cells loss.

QuikSand · 08-05-2003, 12:24 PM

I just recall seeing the guy on Xmas, and thinking that he should have been Time's Man of the Year.

Fritz · 08-05-2003, 12:44 PM

I wonder how many lap dances you could buy in West Virginia for $113,000,000...

QuikSand · 08-05-2003, 12:46 PM

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Originally posted by Fritz
I wonder how many lap dances you could buy in West Virginia for $113,000,000...

I reckon about 113,000,000.

Fritz · 08-05-2003, 12:46 PM

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Originally posted by QuikSand
I reckon about 113,000,000.

you are so kick ass with math!!!!

(boy this bag of exlamation points is handy!!!!!!!!)

FishFan · 08-05-2003, 01:04 PM

Yeah, but that's only about 5.6 million "private" dances....

cuervo72 · 08-05-2003, 01:09 PM

You could buy yourself an Anna Nicole Smith for that money.

Buccaneer · 08-05-2003, 01:11 PM

Don't forget the cost of Viagra.

Fritz · 08-05-2003, 01:12 PM

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Originally posted by Buccaneer
Don't forget the cost of Viagra.

Bucc shows his age

TroyF · 08-05-2003, 01:17 PM

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Originally posted by QuikSand
I reckon about 113,000,000.

It depends, are we talking dancers with their full set of teeth? There are many, many mathematical equations we could come up with for this. I'm sure we could even find one scenario with a 2/3 answer.

TroyF

Note: As a side note, I watched an HBO special yesterday dealing with hillbillies. Interesting show if you ever get a chance to catch it. (No, I don't think ALL West Virginians are like that)

cuervo72 · 08-05-2003, 01:20 PM

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Originally posted by TroyF

Note: As a side note, I watched an HBO special yesterday dealing with hillbillies. Interesting show if you ever get a chance to catch it. (No, I don't think ALL West Virginians are like that)

Speaking of....I heard on the radio (ok, Don & Mike) that there was a Driven episode on VH1 about Anna Nicole, and they had numerous clips of her family. Biggest hillbillies you'd ever want to see.

Fritz · 08-05-2003, 01:20 PM

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Originally posted by TroyF
Note: As a side note, I watched an HBO special yesterday dealing with hillbillies. Interesting show if you ever get a chance to catch it. (No, I don't think ALL West Virginians are like that)

How did they manage to film that? I hear that the aboriginal hillbilly feels that cameras steal the soul.

TroyF · 08-05-2003, 01:27 PM

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Originally posted by Fritz
How did they manage to film that? I hear that the aboriginal hillbilly feels that cameras steal the soul.

I dunno. **shrug**

It was the stereotypical hillbilly family though. The youg'un was going to marry his sweetheart. She dumped him twice. The first time he started tearing his jeans to shreds while he was wearing them. The second time he went out to some wooden structure (it was away from the outhouse) and started smashing his fist into it repeatedly.

He then told his grandpa that he was going to leave. Grandpa responded that "all bad checks come back home" The boy responded that this bad check was gonna stick.

The show's text at the end said he came home one month after he left.

Also in the show was a women who had mental problems because of a rock that hit her in the head when she was young, an abused wife whose husband murdered another man after they had divorced, and a myriad of other sad stories.

To be fair, it showed how happy some of them were as well. It didn't strictly deal with the bad.

TroyF

JeeberD · 08-05-2003, 01:41 PM

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Originally posted by cuervo72
You could buy yourself an Anna Nicole Smith for that money.

Why the hell would you want to?

TroyF · 08-05-2003, 01:58 PM

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Originally posted by JeeberD
Why the hell would you want to?

Another thing to consider, where in the hell would you store her? Did we ever get that FOFC carrier ship? So long as we kept her in the middle of the ship, we'd be ok.

TroyF

cuervo72 · 08-05-2003, 02:09 PM

This Anna Nicole I'd consider:

The current model......no.

cuervo72 · 08-05-2003, 02:10 PM

Dola - she has the same pointy chin as Reese Witherspoon

JeeberD · 08-05-2003, 02:13 PM

She thought that Reese Witherspoon was a Reese's Pieces and she ate her?!?!?!

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08-05-2003, 12:17 PM	#4
QuikSand lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Annapolis, Md	When this guy initially won, I was deeply impressed by his statement ow what he intended to do with his money. He is a businessman, and he said that his top priority was to re-hire some of the people he had to lay off in the preceding months as the business fell on hard times. He also volunteered that he planned to tithe his customary 10% - no matter that it meant maybe ten million dollars or so. I'm not sure we've heard the whole story here... but at least he said a lot of the right things at the time. Maybe he lived up to all that, and then decided to screw around with some of the leftovers. Doesn't seem wholly unreasonable.

08-05-2003, 12:23 PM	#7
Buccaneer Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Colorado	I didn't make the connection that it was the same guy. I blame it on the mrskippy-infested brain cells loss.

08-05-2003, 12:24 PM	#8
QuikSand lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Annapolis, Md	I just recall seeing the guy on Xmas, and thinking that he should have been Time's Man of the Year.

08-05-2003, 01:04 PM	#12
FishFan College Prospect Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA	Yeah, but that's only about 5.6 million "private" dances....

08-05-2003, 01:11 PM	#14
Buccaneer Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Colorado	Don't forget the cost of Viagra.

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cuervo72 Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Maryland	This Anna Nicole I'd consider: The current model......no. __________________ null

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