HOLY CRAP 🚨: A single mother put 40 cents into a slot machine at a New York casino and won $43 MILLION. The casino offered her a steak dinner and $2.25 instead. A judge sided with the casino. She walked away empty-handed.
– Katrina Bookman grew up in foster homes.
– She was homeless as a teenager. She raised four children on her own as a single mother in New York.
– On August 5, 2016, she entered Resorts World Casino in Queens and put 40 cents into a slot machine called Sphinx Wild.
– Bells rang. Lights flashed. The screen showed her winnings in full. $42,949,672.76. The biggest slot machine jackpot in U.S. history.
– She took a selfie with the screen. She was already planning what to do with the money.
– A MILLION dollars for her son who wanted to open a barbershop.
– A casino employee told her to come back the next day to collect her winnings after an official review.
– The next day the casino told her the machine had malfunctioned. She hadn't won anything.
– They offered her $2.25, the amount shown on her printed ticket, and a free steak dinner as a goodwill gesture.
– She said "Seriously? Are you kidding? I felt insulted."
– She turned down both and hired a lawyer.
– She filed a 17-page lawsuit against the casino, its parent company, and the slot machine manufacturer.
– Her lawyer argued that even if the $43 MILLION was a glitch, the machine's legitimate maximum jackpot was $6,500. The casino should pay at least that. The casino refused even that.
– The New York State Gaming Commission confirmed the malfunction.
– Every machine in the casino had a small printed disclaimer: "Malfunctions void all payments and plays."
– After years of delays, including COVID, the case finally made it to court.
– A Queens County Supreme Court judge ruled in favor of the casino.
– Katrina Bookman walked away empty-handed.
– Not the $43 MILLION, not the $6,500. Not even the steak dinner.
A single mother who grew up in foster homes put 40 cents into a machine, saw it show $43 MILLION, took a selfie, came back the next day, and was handed $2.25 and a dinner reservation.
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THE MEDIA WERE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND WHEN PEOPLE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WERE LIVING IN TENTS IN THE COLD...
...BUT NOW THEY ARE OUT IN FULL FORCE OVER SOME ALGAE IN THE REFLECTING POOL?!!!
WHAT IS HAPPENING?!!!!!!!!
Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.
https://t.co/3YJSstB7d4
This is a brand new package of Jimmy Dean bacon
The marked weight on the package is 12 ounces
If you take the unopened package and put it directly on a scale the weight is only 10.6 ounces, and that’s with the package
I looked up the law. In the United States the marked net weight on bacon packages must reflect only the weight of the bacon itself, excluding the packaging
Under FDA rules the packaging must be excluded
We are being robbed blind
dunno who needs to hear this..
but the fact that you can still feel wonder, devotion, gratitude, and love after everything you've been through shows that your spirit is far healthier than you think.
USPS Employee Ethan Pease:
"I'm not a Trump supporter. I'm not a Biden supporter either, but something profoundly wrong occurred in Wisconsin during the Presidential election and the American people have a right to know about it!"
We need more people like this.
NICKI MINAJ FANS ARE NOT PLAYING
This is club packed with Nicki fans going crazy yelling “Fk Jay-Z”** after he dissed her and her son on stage.
The Barbz have been fully ACTIVATED
#NickiMinaj#HipHopCrave
Fans have noticed that multiple bars from Jay-Z’s supposed freestyle are lyrics previously used by Nicki Minaj:
• “A rapper can’t be my opp…”
• “The jig is up n****, I’m up 10, wrong chart champ.”
• “N****s looked up to Hov, I never looked up to them.”
• “It’s gonna cost you a B to say my name.”
The 56-year-old washed-up rapper couldn’t come up with his own bars? 🤔
Credits to: @HOT99Paper
Former President Joe Biden has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts tied to interviews he conducted with biographer Mark Zwonitzer, which later became part of the classified documents investigation against him.
The lawsuit seeks to prevent the release of roughly 70 hours of interviews conducted in 2016 and 2017 for Biden’s memoir “Promise Me, Dad,” arguing the materials are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act after multiple efforts were made to unseal them.
Gemini is the first to receive & hear the information.
So when they tell the collective (Aquarius) we take it as them playing around (Leo in the 3rd)
Or we think the Gemini is crazy (Pisces in the 10th)
But then as time goes by we look at the Gemini a great teacher for humanity (Aquarius in the 9th )
Ticks cannot fly, they cannot jump,
and they crawl slower than a snail.
Yet, they somehow “outbreak”
across thousands of miles of
different states in the exact same
week.
They aren’t migrating through the
woods; they are being delivered.
Erin Brockovich has launched a website and has begun tracking all data centers in America and logging resident complaints
In just 1 week it’s already logged 1,690 resident complaints
For this who don’t remember
Erin Brockovich was the paralegal responsible for winning out a case against PG&E, Hinckley in California, because their wastewater runoff was seeping into rural areas and creating a lot of health issues for, for the surrounding neighborhoods
That case brought in a $333 million settlement that went to the families affected by the situation because a lot of them either had staggering medical bills due to their tap water was no longer safe
So why is this important, well residents all over America are reporting their tap water and river water is being heavily polluted by data centers
Her map of data centers is new, she just launched it
The website features an interactive US map showing operational, under-construction, and proposed AI data centers, overlaid with community-reported complaints
Residents can submit reports with details, photos, and locations. Within days of launch, it received a surge of submissions over 1,600 in the first week, and reports of 1,800+ from 47 states shortly after
Common Resident Complaints Being Logged
- Water usage
- Raising utility bills for residents
- Noise pollution: Constant 24/7 humming from fans, generators, and cooling systems disrupting sleep, daily life, and wildlife.
- E-waste from frequent hardware upgrades, pollution including PFAS concerns
A new study found preservatives commonly used in packaged foods may be linked to a 29% higher risk of high blood pressure and a 16% greater risk of heart attacks and strokes.
How does a guy get to block the sun, cover your "organic" fruit in film, insert fake meat into the supply chain, and bioengineer mosquitos to release vaccines without anyone's consent or approval and NOT be called a supervillain?