Winning the lottery is every gambler’s dream. So when Donna Lee Sobb hit the California state lottery for one hundred dollars she was thrilled. Not only did she need the money, but her winning ticket also qualified her for the big two-million-dollar jackpot.
Things were looking up for Donna, it seemed. She smiled as she looked at her picture in the local news-paper. She was getting some attention, and people on the street occasionally recognized her. Unfortunately for Sobb, so did the people on the beat—the police beat, that is. A local cop read her story, saw her picture, and recognized her as the woman wanted by authorities on an eight-month-old shoplifting warrant.
Now Sobb really needed that hundred dollars she had just won. She ended up applying it toward her bail.