There was a strange lottery held in Alaska. The charity Standing Together Against Rape held the lottery to raise money and give a large chunk of change to a sexual assault victim. The winner would receive $500,000.
I guess someone forgot to read a sex crimes book or two, because it turns out a lot of pedophiles were victims.
An Alaska lottery held to raise money for a group that helps sexual abuse victims had a surprise winner: a convicted sex offender.Yay?
Alec Ahsoak, who according to the state sex offender registry was convicted in 1993 and 2000 for sexual abuse of a minor, came forward Saturday with the winning ticket for the $500,000 Lucky Time Pull Tabs jackpot.
UPDATE: I got the story wrong. That's exciting! I thought the lottery was for victims of sexual assaults, but anyone could have won. How fucked up would it be if they only allowed sex victims to enter a lottery? How would they determine who was a sex victim? What the fuck is wrong with me?
And the "winner" met a pipe.
It's all working out.The man who won the state's first half-million dollar lottery was attacked on a downtown street this afternoon with a tire iron or metal pipe, according to Anchorage police.
Police say Alec Ahsoak, 53, was attackedat about 3:30 p.m. when a man, accompanied by two women, approached him to ask if he was the man who won the $500,000 jackpot.
thanks for the catch arthur.
1 comment:
Dave -
If I'm reading it right, it's not that the ticket-buyers are all victims, it's that the lottery was held to benefit victims, i.e., the money that ISN'T part of the prize goes to them. I don't see anything in the story to indicate that the winner was a victim.
But more importantly, the story takes yet another turn:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/59638.html
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