Oh my, missing a little education on probability are we? She was angry she always lost. So this woman threatened to kill lottery officials, police say. – The Washington Post

“You can’t look at it and say, ‘This is just somebody venting,’ ” Lower Swatara Township Police Detective Robert Appleby told The Washington Post. “To go as long and hard as she did, you start to wonder if she was going to go any further.”

A Pennsylvania Lottery representative said officials at the agency do not comment on pending cases.

Appleby said Shields seemed to believe that the lottery was conspiring against her — playing her numbers in other states where she didn’t play. He said she insisted that state lottery officials owed her money for the games she had lost because of that. (emphasis added)

“Most people know when they play the lottery, they’re not going to win,” Appleby said. “She seemed like she had a sense of entitlement — that she was supposed to win the lottery.”

Police said in a statement that from April through December, Shields “repeatedly made death threats and harassed employees” at lottery headquarters.

Quite the fantasy world Towanda Shields lives in. I’m guessing dealing with the realities of her actions will prove challenging.