So you have won the lottery......

[Zardnaar]

What6 would you do. Say its 10 million+. Sure theres the old buy a new house/car/boat and help the family out but what about the really dumb things. Personally I would....

1. Hire someone at 30000 dollars a year to walk behind me with a small stereo playing the Star Wars imperial march. I may or may not dress up as Darth Vader. If so the employee woulkd have to wear a Storm Trooper costume. Why? It would be funny walking around down town.

2. I would place a ad in the largest weekend paper I could find (double page ad as well) saying "I won XYZ amount of money....and you didn't. Have a nice day". This would be funny and piss people off- 2 of my favourite things.

3. I would do something similar to the "Bumfights" video except I would do it to normal people. See what people will do for money. Walk down the street naked etc. Remember to film it and put it on TV or the internet for maximum humiliation.

 

[cgannon64]

Give half to charity.

Give half of the remaining half to my family.

Invest another large portion. Then I'd spend the rest freely (I'm only a teenager so I can't buy cars, houses, etc).

EDIT: Oh and buy a small island, declare it its own country, and have that country declare war on America.

 

[amadeus]

Get a bank account in the Cayman Islands, fast...

 

[Colonel Kraken]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
Get a bank account in the Cayman Islands, fast...

Ahh, c'mon, Sharpe, you're not afraid of the ol' government taking your money are you?

 

[amadeus]

Just some parts of it. We have enough welfare babies as it is.

 

[gael]

I'd make sure my brother and mother were well looked after, then I'd travel the world and live a life of pure luxury.

If anybody tried to tell me that money won't make me happy, I'd slap them around the face with a wad of notes.

 

[Mr. Cackle]

I would return to South Africa and build actual houses in every township I could.

That and buy an AK-47, shooting it into the air screaming "ALL PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!!!" Don't know why, but I've always wanted to do that.

 

[Constantine]

For all you Americans theres no tax for lottery winnings in Canada.

 

[Yaniv]

I'd invest in more lottery tickets, and contribute to the creation of Civ 4

Seriously, it makes me sad thinking how good life can be compaired to what it really is

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Originally posted by Constantine
For all you Americans theres no tax for lottery winnings in Canada.

Ya but $10 million Canadian is worth about $5 American.(actually it would prbably be $7 million)

I would probably give some to my family members then go and buy a small island nation and turn it into my own country. Or maybe I would just buy something else for myself.

 

[Perfection]

I'd use it to invest in a good disguise, then pull some of the nastiest pranks ever on annoying celebrities.

 

[Constantine]

Originally posted by SuperBeaverInc.


Ya but $10 million Canadian is worth about $5 American.(actually it would prbably be $7 million)

I would probably give some to my family members then go and buy a small island nation and turn it into my own country. Or maybe I would just buy something else for myself.

What I am suggesting is once they win it in USD they flee north so they dont have to pay taxes.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

There are two choices.

Firstly, blow it all in a Don Birnam-esque Lost Weekend binge replete with whiskey, song, assorted little boys reading aloud from Schopenhauer and the most expensive velvet fez in the world.

Secondly, after appropriate tithes to worthy institutions and the church, put it all in The Fund for the execution of The Plan. Return to austere monkish living in one's evil keep with but a new fez to show for it.

 

[Smaasnekje]

Some to charity, and other to live the veru good life of some sort and chums and stuff and dr.niels and 1000 flying monkeys wake me up tomorrow nbecause i have to wash the basemnent with a hangover and i watch the keuys not the screen dude!

 

[jack merchant]

Three words: single malt Laphroig.

 

[WildFire]

Originally posted by cgannon64
Give half to charity.

People say that but never follow through.

Give it to the WildFire Charity

 

[cgannon64]

Originally posted by WildFire


People say that but never follow through.

Give it to the WildFire Charity

Most people never have the chance to follow through.

 

[WildFire]

And when people do have the chance, the greed almost always sets in.

 

[Stile]

I would purchase a large refuge in the North Georgia mountains, where I would play war games. I would hire around 100 able bodies, subject them to Marine Corp style training, split them in half (by number, not physically), and then lead them into mock battles (using laser-tag or paint ball style equipment) against my friends and the other half. I would mainly hire the homeless, orphans, and recovering junkies and hope that that would somehow count towards good works. People always say they will create a mock army, gain pleasure from watching them train, and then force them into mock battles, but rarely is it ever done. Apathy sets in.

My favorite response from an actual winner was a farmer in the mid-west who won $11 million and said he would just keep on farming until it was all gone.

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by WildFire
And when people do have the chance, the greed almost always sets in.

So? Not everyone is greedy.