A few months ago a 55 year old woman was about to go into the Virginia Lottery office to cash winning lottery tickets worth $10,000 when she was attacked.
The two men who attacked her are now behind bars. Blake Jordan and Kenneth Marshall, both 22, apparently attacked the woman with a hammer. They’ve been charged with maiming, attempted robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.
One of the men is apparently a nephew of the 55 year old woman. Isn’t that cold blooded?
Keary Fox, 56, a lottery worker, first hear the woman scream at 1:10 pm so he ran outside and saw Jordan on top of the woman. He put Jordan in a headlock while a customer took the hammer out of his hand. The pair held him until police arrived. Marshall was arrested later in the day.
The woman suffered lacerations to the back of the head. Lucky for her that lottery worker came by when he did or she might have had worse injuries or perhaps even have been murdered.
Get this … U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner who already happens to be a millionaire and is heir to the Kimberly-Clark fortune has been having a lucky streak.
Back in 1997 he hit it big when he purchased a ticket for the District of Columbia Lottery. He won $250,000. As if his millions and a lucky lottery win wasn’t enough, last spring he ended up winning $1000 in the Wisconsin lottery, then he won yet another $1000 in the same lottery a few days ago.
“I got lucky,” Sensenbrenner said.
Sensenbrenner, 64, was born into a family that helped build Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex tissue and Scott paper towels, and he recently reported a net worth of about $11.6 million. He said he spends about $10 a week on lottery tickets.
Would you take a dive for $20?
PALMETTO, Fla.: How far would you go for 20 bucks? Mark Giorgio jumped off a 50-foot bridge to retrieve a wayward 20. Giorgio was counting his money while walking across a bridge over the Manatee River in Florida. A 20-dollar bill blew out of his hand and over the rail. He followed.
Giorgio plunged into the water 50-feet below, then had to swim 100 yards, but he did get his soggy 20. He was fished from the water by a passing Florida fish-and-game officer.
Giorgio tells the Sarasota Herald-Tribune “hell, yeah” it was worth it. He says 20 bucks is a lot of money when you’re broke.
Long distance lottery winner
Norway: Gunvor Pedersen is getting good news from her native Norway, she’s a millionaire. Pedersen won one and a-quarter million dollars in Norway’s national lottery. But Norwegian officials had no idea where to find her. Pederson moved to the U-S in 1964 and lives on New York’s Long Island. But she’s returned to Norway every summer for a visit, buying a single lottery ticket each trip.
After the story of the missing winner was carried by Norwegian media, friends suspected it could be Pedersen. And it was. Despite her recent good luck, Pedersen isn’t interested in playing the New York lotto. She says she’ll stick with her one Norwegian lottery ticket a year.
