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A lady won $100,000 from the Hoosier Lottery this weekend - she was highlighted on the front page of the Sunday paper here in cbus as well as countless stories on the radio and news about her.

But here’s what makes the story newsworthy - she was down to her last 90 bucks, $50k in credit card debt, and on the verge of suicide. So she gave her last 90 bucks to her daughter to buy lottery tickets.

Now, after she won, she claims that god helped her through this tough time. Glory be.

This is the worst story I’ve heard in a while. In my mind, it’s just as bad as the lady who cut the fetus out of another lady and took it as her own. She had dug a hole so deep, and took no responsibility for her actions. She spent her last 90 fucking dollars on lottery tickets! Which is probably what got her in such trouble in the first place.

Prediction: with the $72k she’ll keep after taxes, she’ll pay off her CC debt, buy everyone lots of nice Christmas gifts, and have about 18k left, after which she’ll spend the next six months living okay. She’ll be right back in the same boat in a year or so.

Pathetic. Not newsworthy at all, unless you want to point out how much of a drain on society this lady puts.

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