CNN: Powerball winner's $545K cash stolen at SUV at strip club

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/South/08/05/offbeat.millionaire.theft.ap/

CROSS LANES, West Virginia (AP) -- More than half a million dollars was stolen early Tuesday from a Powerball winner's vehicle parked outside a strip club, but the money was recovered, a sheriff's deputy said.

Someone broke a window in Jack Whittaker's sport utility vehicle around 2:30 a.m. and took a briefcase containing $245,000 in cash and three blank $100,000 cashier's checks, Kanawha County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Phil Morris said.

The briefcase, cash and checks were later found behind a trash bin on the property, Morris said.

Whittaker "gambles quite a bit, and we believe that's the reason that the large sum of money was in possession at this time," he told the Charleston Daily Mail.

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Whittaker claimed a $113 million cash option after winning a record $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas Day. He promised to give a tenth of his winnings to churches, and has so far given away at least $3 million, the newspaper said.

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[htuttle]

1. SOMEBODY THREW THE CASH AWAY???!?!

"The briefcase, cash and checks were later found behind a trash bin on the property, Morris said. "

[Itascapark]

2. What a

D...U...M...B...A...S...S

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. which one?

the one who had the money in his car, or the one who left it after stealing it?

[Capn Sunshine]

3. WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP

Bullshit alert! This story is too weird! Something amiss with that guy!

[bluestateguy]

5. Money in a briefcase?

Where I'm from someone with a briefcase full of cash is up to no good. Isn't this AJ Whitaker this real big Christian?

[Purrfessor]

6. Here's my favorite part....

"Whittaker claimed a $113 million cash option after winning a record $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on Christmas Day. He promised to give a tenth of his winnings to churches, and has so far given away at least $3 million, the newspaper said."


Apparently he meant the Church of Ill (ill) Repute would get a tenth of his winnings.

[flyingfish]

7. Can anyone say "lap dance"?

A guy has millions of dollars outside of strip club.
Think about it.