A Massachusetts man riding high after winning $500 in the lottery jumped onto the roof of a car to celebrate, only to be brought back to earth by police, who busted him for property damage — and possession of marijuana, officials said.
Cops arrested Joseph Taglieri, 31, outside of his apartment on Prince Street in Boston yesterday, after watching him scream "YEEESSSS!!!!!" and leap onto a nearby 1994 Toyota Camry, denting the roof, according to the Suffolk District Attorney's Office.
"I was having such a bad day," Taglieri told the Herald today, adding he was having money problems. "The first number says I've won $500 so I start jumping up and down, like out of control. I didn't mean to jump on the hood of the car but I was happy ... It was almost like everything was going to be OK."
When the cops arrested him, Taglieri told them that he was carrying marijuana, he and the DA's office said. Police found a sandwich bag in his pocket that they believed to contain more than one ounce of marijuana, according to the DA. Police hustled him down to the station for booking.
"I didn't even get to finish scratching the scratch ticket," Taglieri said, adding that he had not realized he had dented the car.
In 2002, Taglieri was convicted on drug distribution charges, and was sentenced to two years in prison, according to the district attorney's office. In 2008, he was convicted of breaking and entering and he appeared in court again on drunken driving charges last year, the DA said.
Taglieri told the Herald that he was carrying about half an ounce of marijuana. Carrying less than one ounce of marijuana is not a crime in Massachusetts, though the person can be fined.
Taglieri was arraigned today in Boston Municipal Court on charges of destruction of property and marijuana possession. Taglieri's lawyer David Fitzgerald could not be immediately reached for comment.
Taglieri, who was allowed to keep his scratch-off winner, is due back in court Sept. 21.
$500???! Imagine if he won $50 M??! What a loser...
EXACTLY!!!! Forget the pot, I cant believe he done all that over $500, granted when i hit $500 i get excited but i dont do stupid stuff.
$500.00 will make everything OK,? your only problem can be clearly seen by looking in a mirror.and you are luckier than you even know, if that was my car your personal hood would be dented and i'd be in jail.nother thing a-hole,you're on more than mj if your acting like that.
guess we know what hell do with his 'winnings' - paying court fines, court costs and probation fees.
somehow i dont think $500 is going to cover it.
what a macaroon...
loser is the key word here, $500.00 minus arrest,court, auto repairs,should i go on ? i'm sure the hood cost $500.00.
WOW!!!! No he didn't!!!!
"your personal hood would be dented"..
"I didn't mean to jump on the hood of the car but I was happy ..."
Oh, well ok then, Joe, as long as you didn't mean to jump on the hood of the car it's ok. And you had extenuating circumstances anyway - you were happy.
Oh, by the way, the cops said you were jumping up and down on the roof of the car, not the hood. You must have been really happy. So that's understandable.
I was just wondering how you tell the judge you got on the roof of a car without meaning to.
I would use the defective Pogo-Stick defense, Joe.
There's no way it was your fault.
"extenuating circumstances" uhh.. your honer my client had to walk up the w/shield to crush the roof,what if if broke and he was hurt by broken glass ? judge: well then he can sue the glass co. and the creator of sand.
Maybe he can try the insanity defence.
oh yea, thats their 2nd fav. the 1st is temp. insanity.
Maybe he was happy about the possibility of splurging on an upgrade that night.
What an idiot! I would be happy and maybe yell for a second before going back to the store to claim my money.....but all this over $500? Don't get me wrong that's a good amount of money for anyone.....but not Millions! After court costs and paying for the guys roof he will probably be hundreds of dollars in the hole....Must been nice while it lasted....but the hangover is going to be awful
You've got to wonder what his username here on LP is!
LMFAO ah ha ha.......now thats funny
Yeah, I agree this guy acted like a bonehead loser over just winning $500.00. I guess he must have just had 50 cents in his pockets and non-existent bank account to "jump" for joy like that. If he actually jumped from the ground up onto the roof of that car, I think he might want to hone either his ball catching skills or basketball skills and try to get on a team with hops like that. But he would need to give up hitting the wacky weed.
Something else caught my eye...I love journalists!
Taglieri, who was allowed to keep his scratch-off winner, is due back in court Sept. 21.
This would lead one to think that the police/DA could arbitrarily determine to seize one's property for any type of crime; however, it is well known that they will seize drug dealers property and given that he was charged with drug distribution for such a small amount of mj, I guess he is lucky they "allowed him to keep his scratch-off winner". But I wonder if they would have done so had it been a $2million scratch-off winner or a winning jackpot ticket? In those cases, I would think they would say, "Cha-ching ching" we (the police/DA) have just hit the lottery!!!
Another "happy" vandal ... a menace to society! He'll probably escape paying for damages to the car owner though.
having a bad day? what like coming out to your car and find some ahole had dented the roof.
i say $5k damges.
damages won't even be 500.00. at least he knows where to get weed. time to legalize it has been overdue. at least in ma there is no penalty for possessing it. there is no way they can even enforce the 100.00 fine. what a joke.
I agree, it says a lot about society in general thatthe story here is that he was busted on pot charges, not that he was busted on destruction of property. Honestly, which is worse?
I think its funny that he got so excited for $500 because he was having money problems, yet was able to afford an entire ounce of pot!
Actually what is worse is the judgmentalism this thread has opened up . Yes the behavior created damage and for that legally it deserves compensation. Done
Well look at how many people have money issues and who spend it on gambling. Granted, of course, gambling can result in getting money, where buying that ounce of pot likely would not (I'm not well versed on marijuana purchases but since that amount is near the 'not illegal' mark I'd assume he hadn't bought it to sell it and make money like you would a higher weight of the stuff).
But still, without the marijuana factoring into the story it's still pretty humorous. Win $500, jump on and damage a car and then get arrested... likely using all of the $500 he won. Something makes me think he wouldn't be able to keep a jackpot win quiet.
I think it calls for more than compensation.
I think it calls for a good old fashioned ass whoopin'.
Then it calls for his dope to be stuck up where the sun don't shine.
He's lucky he jumped on some lib's car in MA and not some good ol' boy's truck in TN.
Not all winners are equal.
"I was having such a bad day," Taglieri told the Herald today,...
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It appears that didn't change any after he won the $500 bucks either.
"Hey, not for notin but...." In reality our hero, who did his drug performance in Boston's Norh End, was extra lucky that the local BOYZ didn'deep six him to sleep with the fishes in the Boston Harbor off nearby Atlantic Ave.
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it's a 100 dollar fine in Mass for less than an ounce so at least he'll have the other $400 to smoke lol
Yep, got to agree,
Unless they make him go to rehab.
still got a hood or roof to pay for and since the cops made a bigger deal about the mj. i'm thinkin rehab. is part of this pic. cause he's gonna need a lawyer. in this case, i'm thinking public defender.
absolutely does not a need to hire a lawyer or be appointed one for this silly case. nothing more than a civil matter. no da or prosecutor would even bother with this. he will pay damages and that is the end of it. no one can force you into rehab for weed possession in this country, unless the find out you watched that crap tv show the A-team, then you could be committed to ancora where you probably escaped from.
I had an unconscious mind unti the age of 27. What i've learned is that 1 out of every 25 people that walk the earth are sociopaths. It's not their fault, they are born like that. And a sociopath just doesn't have the ability to think of anyone but themselves. Sure the smart ones can fake it, but many just can't think of anyone but themselves. When I read this story, the first thing I thought of was that this guy was a sociopath...
wow, I really learned something today>>>>>> only 1 out of 25 are sociopaths <<<<<<<<<I would think the number would be alot higher then that!
But you did state that smart ones fake it. lol
GYM RICE, I'm glad you're not "unconscious" anymore. That is, if you're also glad.
Anyhow, apparently many of these "sociopaths" aren't "biological" but rather "learned."
This isn't to say that the drug using, private 'property damager' written about in this article is a sociopath ... no tests were performed. Could be bipolar or no illness/bent. However, it would be interesting to discover if this man would have behaved this way without drug hampered brain and body.
Wow man, what just happened???
you sound really frustrated over you're inability to get me to do what you want.
lets see...who's on here from mass.? faber98 sounds pretty frustrated right now.i think that can happen when you win $500.00 then do something stupid and get busted right after,and if you read the whole thread you'll see he seems to know a lot about the legal stuff ,cost of car hoods etc.
Cost of scratch of ticket 1-2 dollars
Cost of dent in car hood 330 - 800 dollars
Cost of drug charges, vandalism , lawyers , cort fees and possible jail time.... Priceless.
500 dollars is not enough for me to get emotional about.
lol , good one
Ummm sorry.. that will be court fees.. spell check is the work of the devil.,,lol
this will be continued without a finding pending possible restitution for damages. no penalty for the drug possession as it is unenforeceable in this state. the courts are only interested in making money not justice in these types of cases, so yes a court fee is possible, jail is not even on the radar screen for this schmuck. case closed.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two paths diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the socio path,
And that has made all the difference
Lol, the socio path..thats a trip....
He got excited over 500 bucks?
I guess he didn't have a pot to piss in....
I agree, I think the ratio is higher.
Especially in younger people and even more so if they work in a fast food joint.
I think smacking fast food punks upside the head should be legal.
I think my area harbors the 30-something variety of sociopaths. I ran into 2 of them in as many days...
One I was ready to smack upside the head with my gallon of milk and the other I was ready to take care of with my bare hands.
Gotta watch it out there.