Former lottery 'numbers' operator rebuilds life after jail

Comment #10

Chewie — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 23:46:31 GMT

Hey, lets do away with everything some one thinks is only a little offensive. Civilization has no business selectively saying one thing is good and one is bad. If it was good enough for Rome, it should be good enough for America.

Comment #9

Tenaj — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 23:28:07 GMT

Just Pot. I think we will have less drug addicts on hard drugs. They will smoke pot for the most part. And people will be happier. It's not a transition drug as people say. Ask the baby boomers. They still smoke it and don't do hard drugs.Drug dealers got a lot people on hard drugs by making pot hard to find. Prozaic and anti-depressants will become a thing of the past.

Comment #8

emilyg — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 23:27:49 GMT

carbob - we'd become dumber than we already are.

Comment #7

Rip Snorter — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 23:10:14 GMT

Carbob:Wrong place to discuss it. If you start a blog entry I'll give you some discussion. Try to discuss it on this tread and it will just end up with a lot of flak. Besides, it's way off thread. It's been tried.Jack

Comment #6

CARBOB — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:56:38 GMT

What do you think would happen if they legalise drugs?Carbob

Comment #5

Tenaj — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:47:58 GMT

i agree Rip. They were getting a cut anyway. Same here in NC. They really are going to bring down some numbers houses and the liquor they sell with it. I'm glad I play online.

Comment #4

Rip Snorter — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 18:21:38 GMT

Once the gov figured out it could make a profit on what people were going to do anyway, plus not having to pay the price of keeping otherwise decent people in the slammer, it caught hold pretty well. Nice to see at least one victimless crime removed from the criminality slate, even if the cost involved having the gov up to the knees in lotteries and losing the old numbers racket.At least now that's in the hands of the systemically corrupt, instead of corrupting and imprisoning regular, probably... [ More ]

Comment #3

Tenaj — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 17:31:32 GMT

I hear you littleoldlady. It's gonna happen with NC too.

Comment #2

Littleoldlady — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:51:06 GMT

I sure hated to see them bust up the numbers..you could play for as little a dime.

Comment #1

Chewie — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:10:21 GMT

Hey, I owe the government $72K and now I'm a permanent Wally-Mart employee - forever. Tack interest on that and there is no incentive to make large amounts of money. Its like being sued for some huge amount; double, triple, what your insurance coverage is. Might as well start filling out your application.

Former lottery 'numbers' operator rebuilds life after jail

Lottery Post — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 13:34:11 GMT

At the height of his career operating an illegal lottery called the numbers, Otis Ray was running four-digit bar tabs in his $70,000 Titans stadium suite and rubbing elbows with Nashville's elite.Now, just months out of prison, Ray, 53, is working as night watchman at a local Comfort Inn and rebuilding his life on $6-an-hour wages.Ray spent nearly 25 years working in the underground lottery. Just one month after he was sent to federal prison in December 2003, the Tennessee Lottery sold its fir... [ More ]