Irony is a quirky event: you never know when to expect it, but when you see it, you have to laugh. I follow the news, occasionally, from Alaska by reading the Fairbanks and Anchorage newspaper websites. A nice short story in the Fairbanks paper made me do a double-take and then laugh heartily.
It appears that there was some sort of lottery in Alaska, and the beneficiary of that lottery was a group called STAR – Standing Together Against Rape. That seems innocent enough right? Sure. But the story goes that the winner of the $500,000 jackpot had volunteered to give $100,000 of his winnings to that charity. WOW that’s quite a gesture.
Not surprisingly the charity has revealed that it never received the donation, as promised. I suppose the lottery winner realized that the $500,000 reduced to $350,000 after taxes didn’t leave him much to work with. So far so good, right? You’d think that alone was newsworthy. Here’s where the irony comes in.
The winner of the lottery, Alec Ahsoak, as described by the newspaper is a “convicted sex offender.” I don’t know the exact details of Mr. Ahsoak’s conviction – but suffice it to say it is quite ironic that someone convicted of some type of sex crime a) bought a lottery ticket to benefit a rape group, amazingly b) won the grand prize and c) promised to donate some of his winnings back to the charity and then ultimately never did! That’s irony – for sure!
newsminer.com • Promised Alaska lottery gift undelivered
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