This week's most embarrassing criminal

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When is it ever not?

When you're a maverick genius

 

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When you're a maverick genius

That's like saying buying lottery tickets is a good idea when you're extremely lucky.

 

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That's like saying buying lottery tickets is a good idea when you're extremely lucky.

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/...n-20-million-playing-over-over-for-years.html

 

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https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/...n-20-million-playing-over-over-for-years.html

Her name is Joan Ginther, and she won the Texas Lottery at least four times in 10 years, while apparently buying thousands if not millions of dollars wroth of tickets.
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Oh, did we mention she has a Stanford PhD in statistics, lives in Las Vegas, and yet repeatedly made the trip to a single store in rural Texas to make many of her purchases?

Yes, the plot thickens. And so far at least, nobody knows exactly how she did it.

I'm getting a vibe here along the lines of:

HOW TO WIN AT GAMES OF PURE CHANCE:

1. Cheat.
2. Go to step 1.

 

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I'm getting a vibe here along the lines of:

HOW TO WIN AT GAMES OF PURE CHANCE:

1. Cheat.
2. Go to step 1.

How come it's a statistics professor who's cheated rather than street sweeper? She's clearly a maverick genius!

 

[Mr. Tea]

"He was also given a 10-year custodial sentence for crimes against fashion."

 

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Not so much embarrassing as awesome:

Child driving stolen forklift truck hits 10 cars during police chase in Michigan

In footage released by police of the pursuit, an officer can be heard urging the 12-year-old boy to "pull over now" after the truck, equipped with a forklift and weighing up to 35,000 pounds, was stolen from outside a middle school in Ann Arbor.

news.sky.com

 

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Ohio attorney suspended over pooping in a Pringles can, leaving it in parking lot

The Ohio Supreme Court suspended an attorney for defecating into a Pringles can and dropping it in a parking lot of a crime-victim advocacy center.

eu.cincinnati.com

 

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