Timothy Elliott

Timothy Elliott, 55, is a convicted bank robber who isn’t supposed to gamble.

Unfortunately for Timothy Elliott he is also a millionaire of sorts, having recently won a $1 million with a Massachusetts Lottery scratch ticket.

He’s already collected the first of 20 annual $50,000 checks from the Massachusetts lottery commission and now he is looking like a loser facing a return to prison for violating his parole by gambling.

According to CBS News:

Elliott was placed on five years’ probation after pleading guilty in October 2006 to unarmed robbery for a January 2006 heist at a bank on Cape Cod. Under terms of his probation, he “may not gamble, purchase lottery tickets or visit an establishment where gaming is conducted, including restaurants where Keno may be played.”

Whoopsy.

Doesn’t leave much wiggle room does it?

The odds are that the lottery will find or simply invent a loophole to permit denying Elliott his winnings and the state will likely toss him in the slammer for five years.

Po’ Ol’ Timothy – it’s not whether you won or lost, it was that you played the game that was your downfall…

Read it at Luck Runs Out On $1M Lottery Winner and realize that some people are destined to lose, even when they seem to win…