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When your making 12,000 a year, you shouldn't be gambling.
My first thought exactly.
Exactly - and it doesn't pain me in the least to agree with you. 
You guys sound like the government...telling people what they should do with their money. She was playing PENNY slots. And, even if she weren't, it's HER money and her life.
Cause at 12k a yr, there is a good chance she is getting government help, in which case, those pennies might be ours. 
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Cause at 12k a yr, there is a good chance she is getting government help, in which case, those pennies might be ours.
Are you saying we just won $42.9 mil.?....
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Cause at 12k a yr, there is a good chance she is getting government help, in which case, those pennies might be ours.
There is also a chance that she has a husband or live in boyfriend (girlfriend) that provides the primary head of household income so her 12K is fun money...
Can someone explain why it's human nature to assume that someone that makes only 12k a year MUST be on the public dole?
My wife didn't earn much more than that working part time last year... we take no public assistance of anykind.
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There is also a chance that she has a husband or live in boyfriend (girlfriend) that provides the primary head of household income so her 12K is fun money...
Can someone explain why it's human nature to assume that someone that makes only 12k a year MUST be on the public dole?
My wife didn't earn much more than that working part time last year... we take no public assistance of anykind.
This is what she said..
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Chavez says she's owed the full jackpot. The woman told news stations she earns only about $12,000 a year as a home assistant in suburban Denver.
I'm pretty sure that if her husband was a doctor or a lawyer, she wouldn't have phrased it that way.
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Who the hell cares what she earns... it's her money and how much of it she makes is completely irrelevant and shouldn't have even been mentioned in the story (except that it makes for adding a bit of sentiment to things).
And it doesn't matter if it is Penny or $5 slots.... it's hers. She worked for it, she earned it.. she can do with it as she pleases without getting whined at by outsiders.
For all anyone here knows, she's retired and on Social Security... and guess what the magic number is that you can continue to work and earn without affecting your SS benefits? How about $12k/year.
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There is also a chance that she has a husband or live in boyfriend (girlfriend) that provides the primary head of household income so her 12K is fun money...
There's also the chance that she's a gambling addict who blew her entire check on the craps table and threw the last two pennies from the bottom of her purse into a slot machine out of desperation. 
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There's also the chance that she's a gambling addict who blew her entire check on the craps table and threw the last two pennies from the bottom of her purse into a slot machine out of desperation.
there is also the chance that shes a hooker and only reports income from her legit job... 
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there is also the chance that shes a hooker and only reports income from her legit job...
Playing the penny slots? She must be a real hottie to earn that kind of scratch! 
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Playing the penny slots? She must be a real hottie to earn that kind of scratch!
Ahh you know how it is,, one mans trash is another mans treasure 
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Who the hell cares what she earns...
And it doesn't matter if it is Penny or $5 slots.... it's hers. She worked for it, she earned it.. she can do with it as she pleases without getting whined at by outsiders.
Let's look at the facts as they have been presented. She makes $12K a year.. she has kids (plural)... there is no mention of any other family income... if these are the facts, then there is a very good chance that this woman is getting some kind of government assistance so there is a very good chance that she did NOT work for and earn the money she put in that slot machine. If new facts are presented that prove those wrong, I'll be glad to listen to them.
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All guess work,, hit me up when you get the facts.....
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She should have her kids taken from her for negligence and with her latino last name, they should check her imigration status.. is that too harsh? Or did I forget that she's not in a Christian militia and therefore deserves the benefit of the doubt. 
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She earns $12,000/year. That is money earned, not given. Even if it was given, who give's a damn? It's not yours, it's hers. Until it's criminal, you're just complaining to complain.
Show me where the pennies she put in weren't one of the 1,200,000 that she earned on her own.
They're freaking PENNY slots. A homeless bum can afford to play a PENNY slot.
Keep jumping to conclusions on assumptions from missing/non-existent data, though.
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Keep jumping to conclusions on assumptions from missing/non-existent data, though.
I will.. I'm sort of enjoying it and I can always use the exercise of jumping to conclusions and running my mouth.
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Even if it was given, who give's a damn? It's not yours, it's hers. Until it's criminal, you're just complaining to complain.
Darn right I'm just complaining to complain.. I don't want an intervention or anything, if she wants to drop her money, earned or not, into a slot machine, more power to her. The only caveat to that is, when her money is gone, and she has no food.... they better damn sure not be giving her any of mine...
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Show me where the pennies she put in weren't one of the 1,200,000 that she earned on her own.
Doesn't matter. If the government is paying for her medical care, her food, subsidizing her housing, or whatever, then those are not her pennies that she was gambling with. Doesn't matter whether she just cashed her check and started sticking the money in the machine.. until such point as she is taking no money from the government. Do I know for sure she is receiving money from the government? Nope, that's the joy of speculating.
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Well, glad to know that you're in favor of telling folks what they can spend their own money on
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Well, glad to know that you're in favor of telling folks what they can spend their own money on
Well, the gov't. does it. His name is DCDAWGFAN. I mean, there aren't many DC's in the US, right? Things are making sense, no?
But I do see his point - IF, that's IF, she is getting assistance, then no, she should not be gambling - pennies or $10 bills.
She does not look old enough to be retired - from the pictures I saw. She does appear to have a husband, and 4,5, or 6 kids - again, from the picture I saw. (tough to tell - 2 of the kids look old enough to be married - maybe she has one kid that is married and has a kid. I don't know. It was a family picture I saw)
Regardless, ANY assumption is just that at this time. Defending her or calling her out.
I made a statement - actually "agreed" with someone else's statement that she shouldn't be gambling if she makes only $12,000 a year. I made an assumption, be it right or wrong, I made an assumption.
You are making an assumption - be it right or wrong.
Question REALLY is - does the casino pay or not.
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It's HER money and she can spend it any way she wants. I feel she should get the max payout. lol at some of you grumps complaining that she should not be at the casino. Nothing wrong with somebody trying to enjoy themselves. What a bunch of haters. If you were in her situation, I am sure you would take the 251k if you could get it. Don't say you wouldn't.
How in the world can you fix something...
If you don't know how it's supposed to work?
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It's HER money and she can spend it any way she wants. I feel she should get the max payout. lol at some of you grumps complaining that she should not be at the casino. Nothing wrong with somebody trying to enjoy themselves. What a bunch of haters. If you were in her situation, I am sure you would take the 251k if you could get it. Don't say you wouldn't.
Yeah, I would.
Perhaps you should read a bit more. No one is "hating" on her for wanting the 251 thousand. I don't believe any is "hating" on her for wanting the 49 million.
No one is "hating" on her for gambling - PROVIDED she's not on the public dole. Does that make sense to you?
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do we really care about this person, or are we debating what people can/should do with their money?
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No, we're debating if she is using her money or ours.
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If Louise Chavez's experience at a Central City, Colo. casino was memorialized on a tee shirt, it might read something like this: "I won $42.9-million at Fortune Valley Casino and all I got was a lousy breakfast." While celebrating her birthday at the casino, Chavez hit pay dirt on a penny slot machine. The machine's payout window confirmed that she had won an eight-figure sum and, naturally, she was ecstatic. But then casino officials told her that the winnings were in error. Five hours later, they insisted that the machine would need to be inspected before a correct payout could be determined. In return for her patience and disappointment, the casino offered to comp her a night at a hotel, refund the $23 that she put into the machine and provide a free breakfast. She took the breakfast. Will Chavez End Up a Multi-Millionaire? Considering the Colorado Gaming Department's assertion that this particular type of slot machine is designed to pay off no more than $250,000, does Chavez have a shot at collecting anything close to $42.9-million – an amount which, she had been told, is more than the entire casino is worth? "Her likelihood is slim," says Las Vegas attorney David Chesnoff, a go-to guy for clients who range from the town's biggest poker pros to celebrities like Britney Spears and Sug Knight. "If it's a factual mistake, the gaming authority will back the casino. If Colorado is anything like Nevada, whatever gaming says is what it will be unless she can show any kind of fraud." Asked if he would handle this case, Chesnoff offers up an unequivocal "No!" Maybe Chavez would have better luck with lawyer Bob Nersesian. Also based in Vegas, he's known as an aggressive player's advocate and once succeeded in getting a faulty slot machine payout resolved in the gambler's favor. "I got a $100,000 jackpot for a guy who played a machine that was programmed never to pay out more than nine grand," he says. "It was a similar kind of mistake; a mechanism inside the machine had been misprogrammed." But, says Nersesian, that case happened during a different time. "Today, I don't think I would win that case," he says. In all likelihood, whether it's right or wrong, Chavez will receive whatever the proper payout should be based on what came up on the wheels, not the sum of money that flashed on the screen, says Nersesian. She and her attorney may have a bone to pick with the slot-machine manufacturer, with which the casino probably has an indemnity agreement, he says. Even Nersesian, who wrested a large settlement from a casino and the Las Vegas police department after a blackjack player was wrongfully imprisoned for cheating, can see the excesses of this situation given that the $42.9 million is more than the casino is worth. "Bottom line, they are not going to shut down the casino for this. And, in all reality, that is what they'll be doing if they give her the $42.9 million," he says. http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/compan...in-wi/19422137/
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The more I read the more I wonder if the slot even came up with the jackpot combo like 7-7-7 or something.
Never does any story say "I put my money in, pulled the handle and the jackpot numbers came up", it does several times mention that the bells and lights started ringing and she looked up to see the 42 million number, which to me means she wasn't expecting anything big on the spin she just had.
Add that the casino said sorry, gave her her $23 dollars back and a free room and breakfast, I highly doubt it was even on the jackpot combo to begin with.
And it says she is a regular at this casino, so I'm sure she knows what a jackpot combo is.
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shouldnt that be moved to the politics forum?
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