A guy gets presents from mom stolen, wins 100k next day

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Conn. -- Vincent Messina was upset when somebody stole several Christmas gifts from his mother, right off his back porch.

But his mother gave him another gift that made up for the loss -- a $100,000 lottery scratch ticket.

"My mom was really upset. She's not a woman of money and could only do what she could do," Messina said Thursday. "It was pretty terrible, because she loves to see her kids open up their presents."

Messina's mother, Grace, had come up from North Carolina to spend Christmas with her two sons and daughter. She shipped most of the presents to Messina's home on Round Tree Drive.

They were delivered, but then they disappeared.

The day after Christmas, Messina's mother went to a local Stop & Shop and picked up three scratch tickets. Messina's brother, Robert, won $3. His sister got nothing.

Messina, however, hit three treasure chests on his.

"I didn't think it was real," he told the Waterbury Republican-American. "I passed it around and thought it wasn't possible. Even when we went up to the Lotto offices, I was waiting for the lady to confirm it."

Messina received that confirmation when he arrived at Connecticut Lottery Corp. offices in New Britain to pick up his check, $70,000 after taxes.

Messina shared the wealth, giving some of his winnings to each of his siblings and sending his mother back to North Carolina with enough money to buy a new car.

 

[IAteYourMother]

LOL... I thought you were talking about yourself 😀

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
LOL... I thought you were talking about yourself 😀

Same here

 

[virtueixi]

She will blow it all in a week. Some poor people are poor for a reason.

 

[thelanx]

Originally posted by: virtueixi
She will blow it all in a week. Some poor people are poor for a reason.

How can you be so sure? Maybe she was born to a poor family and it was hard for her to rise up? Don't be making broad generalization about people. What a negative thing to say.. :|

 

[Bootprint]

Time to use some of the money as a reward to find the persons who took the gifts, then a little more of the money to pay so the theives get a good fashion beating.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: virtueixi
She will blow it all in a week. Some poor people are poor for a reason.

End yourself. I was very happy after reading this story until I came upon your comment.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok

Originally posted by: virtueixi
She will blow it all in a week. Some poor people are poor for a reason.

End yourself. I was very happy after reading this story until I came upon your comment.

ohh please if your mood can shift so greatly from one post to the next you need some lithium you bipolar freak. why dont you kill yourself?

 

[EmperorIQ]

Originally posted by: thelanx

Originally posted by: virtueixi
She will blow it all in a week. Some poor people are poor for a reason.

How can you be so sure? Maybe she was born to a poor family and it was hard for her to rise up? Don't be making broad generalization about people. What a negative thing to say.. :|

he said some, not all?😀

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: TheVrolok

Originally posted by: virtueixi
She will blow it all in a week. Some poor people are poor for a reason.

End yourself. I was very happy after reading this story until I came upon your comment.

ohh please if your mood can shift so greatly from one post to the next you need some lithium you bipolar freak. why dont you kill yourself?

Did I say his replied had thrown me into a downward spiral of suicidal thought? Hardly. The mood was very light regarding a family who's luck had changed serendipitously and he had to go and be extremely negative. I simply was put off by the comment. Why don't you go take some valium before jumping down someone's throat?

 

[thelanx]

Originally posted by: EmperorIQ

Originally posted by: thelanx

Originally posted by: virtueixi
She will blow it all in a week. Some poor people are poor for a reason.

How can you be so sure? Maybe she was born to a poor family and it was hard for her to rise up? Don't be making broad generalization about people. What a negative thing to say.. :|

he said some, not all?😀

He said "She will ..." I don't see any conditional in that, do you? The next part is only to justify his asshat statement.

 

[Siva]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: TheVrolok

Originally posted by: virtueixi
She will blow it all in a week. Some poor people are poor for a reason.

End yourself. I was very happy after reading this story until I came upon your comment.

ohh please if your mood can shift so greatly from one post to the next you need some lithium you bipolar freak. why dont you kill yourself?

Bipolar disorder doesn't work that quickly. Its drastic mood shifts over a period of weeks, depression for 3 weeks, manic for 1, kinda like that. Anyway, telling someone to kill himself isn't cool, its just the internet. Chill.

 

[BooGiMaN]

so how rich are you.....

 

[tami]

i wonder what gifts were stolen off the porch.