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https://www.courttv.com/news/h...g-167-million-prize/ Powerball winner accused of kicking deputy in newly released bodycam PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (Scripps News Lexington/Court TV) — Newly released body camera video shows the winner of the largest Kentucky Powerball jackpot in history getting arrested just days after making history. In April, James Farthing and his mother, Linda Grizzle, publicly claimed the record-breaking lottery win of $167 million in Kentucky. The following evening, Farthing was arrested on battery charges in Pinellas County, Florida. In newly-obtained body camera footage, deputies can be seen responding to an altercation at a hotel bar in St. Pete. As a deputy arrests one of the men involved, Farthing is allegedly seen kicking the deputy in the face. As the deputy finishes handcuffing the first man, he then approaches Farthing, and can be heard yelling, “Put your hands behind your back right now! Put your hands behind your back and get against the wall!” When Farthing tries to run away, the deputy tasers him, and another deputy tackles him to the ground. (Video at link) ________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it. | ||
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Florida Man! | |||
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Political Cynic |
as Roger Moore would say in Jame Bond - "not worth a farthing' | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
I'd give two years, max, before that's down to a farthing. "The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
He lives in Georgetown, KY and was just visiting Florida. | |||
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Well, at least he's sticking to tradition and playing right into the stereotype of lottery winners. The vast majority of big lottery winners end up broke and miserable within a few years, worse off than they were before they won. Partly because the sudden windfall tends to lead to bad decisions. (And a flood of people with their hands out who are encouraging them to make bad decisions.) Partly because the average lottery player isn't the best and brightest to begin with. There's a reason that the lottery is often referred to as a "tax on being poor and stupid"... Or more politely, a "tax on those who are bad at math". | |||
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| drop and give me 20 pushups |
We can see that winning all of that money did not bring any common sense to the winner...... drill sgt. | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
Water seeks it's own level. Let's see where he is in five years or so. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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worse... a Kentucky man in Florida. There ain't much difference in the man I want to be and the man that I really am. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
Probably just about ready to get out of jail...and find out his mom and girlfriend pissed away his windfall. ________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it. | |||
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Cop hit a solid double leg takedown at 1:25. I gave him a nod of approval when I saw it. Train how you intend to Fight Remember - Training is not sparring. Sparring is not fighting. Fighting is not combat. | |||
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Well, some lawyer is gonna get some of that. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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There used to be a TV show on one of the cable channels that was on lottery winners and every episode included a cautionary tale feature with a lottery "winner" losing it all, ending up in jail, ending up dead, and/or all of the above. This guy is a future cautionary tale feature. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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Once the cops were called. He should have made a few phone calls and just bought the hotel. Then just claimed the other guy was trespassing. LOL!!! Train how you intend to Fight Remember - Training is not sparring. Sparring is not fighting. Fighting is not combat. | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Yep. If he were smart, he'd get a good advisor. But some people don't take advice. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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That's like sending an addict to a Grateful Dead concert. | |||
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Um, that’s all that needs to be said  What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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