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.
Instead of selling 300 letters to God that he found floating in the Atlantic ocean, a U.S. man said on Friday he will donate them to a church. The letters which had been sent to a deceased Baptist clergyman, ended up in a sealed plastic shopping bag near a beach in Atlantic City, N.J.
Bill Lacovara found the bag while on a fishing trip last week. The letters inside the bag were addressed to Rev. Grady Cooper of Jersey City, New Jersey, who died in 2004. The letters included one from a teen-age girl asking God to forgive her for having an abortion, one from a man who wanted God’s help winning the lottery, and one from a prisoner who said he was innocent and wanted to be at home with his family.
The letters could have been auctioned off on eBay for up to $15,000, and says Lacovara, he would have given the money to charity. He has withdrawn the letters from the online auction because he said the move offended some religious people.
“There were a lot of religious fanatics that were very insulted,” he told Reuters. “They said they were disappointed in me, and I didn’t want to do something that’s going to create bad vibes.” He was urged to burn the letters by some or even to throw them back in the ocean or give them to a church.
Lacovara said about a dozen clergymen have offered to take the letters, and he is evaluating the requests to make sure the letters don’t fall into the wrong hands.
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.
