Euro's largest lottery winners decide to go public.......would you???

shrimp


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 15:26

I am not sure I would, all those begging letters etc. but then on the other hand how could you hide it????

martinD41


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 15:39

That were "Offshore Banking" comes in.

Glasbury


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 15:43

A young lady who lives in a small village nearby won a million about a year ago. She featured in an article in a local newspaper and has now had to relocate due to vandalism of her new car and home. Perhaps it would have been better to have been a bit more discreet ?

shrimp


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 15:44

one hundred and sixty something million pounds is thousands of pounds interest per day, I cant see how anyone can keep this private, even with off shore banking, the idea of buying a lottery ticket surely is buying a chance to change your life........I am sure someone would notice.........

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 16:03

They must be mad going public. They've obviously not thought it through.

jimmyG


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 16:04

Definitely wouldn't go public and think you could keep it quiet but I would have to move then travel the world and if a place took my fancy perhaps buy a bolt hole there to go back to. But for that sort of money you could probably buy Cyprus!!

jimmyG


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 16:06

It's a couple from Falkirk & their identities are about to be revealed at 2.30GMT today. I know a couple from there with a place in Tatlisu - I wonder?!!!!!!!!

jock1



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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 16:55

YA BEAUTY ITS MY BROTHER !!!

JohhnyLee


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 16:57

Well if they are from Falkirk they won't worry about the begging letters, I'm sure they will still keep sending them.

0maintenance


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 17:00

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Couple-From-Falkirk-Area-Tickled-Pink-At-161m-Euromillions-Jackpot-Win/Article/201107316030895?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_16030895_Couple_From_Falkirk_Area_Tickled_Pink_At_%3F161m_Euromillions_Jackpot_Win

jimmyG


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 17:43

Nice one Lee !!

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 18:04

Hello,Mr and Mrs Falkirk Scotland.

You may be surprised to hear from me but i am telling you this.

I am Jojo Gabanga ,President of the Bank of England in Mexico City ,United State of Canada.

Please can you send back the £160,999,999,99 your Uncle Archie borrowed in 1954,when we dug our gold mine to help charity and poor people around the earth,as you know he died when his kilt caught fire in an accident at the porridge factory in Zadongo alas omitting to tell anyone he had borrowed this small amount from me.

Please call my office in Nigeria right away for instructions.

waddo


Joined: 29/11/2008
Posts: 1966

Message Posted:
15/07/2011 18:19

I never went public with my lottery winnings and it has never hurt me! Never bothered with an offshore bank either.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 18:59

Me too waddo. I've spent the tenner though, well it was a few years ago now.

Ballyboffin


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Message Posted:
15/07/2011 19:09

I personally know two lottery winners from N.I. A bus driver called Peter Laverty won 10.5 mil on a rollover about 15 years ago, he did take the publicity and still lives here. He has invested in property and business here and is obviously well known but never lost 'the common touch' however wealthy he is now. Great guy who does a lot for charity.



The other guy won 3.75mil and would not go public with it. How people became suspicious was when he bought several top of the range cars and parked them outside his terrace house !!

Pandy


Joined: 27/08/2010
Posts: 171

Message Posted:
15/07/2011 19:30

I wouldn't tell anyone if I won millions.......you would end up pestered upon belief!!!

jock1



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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 09:11

msg 16 Dont i know it !!! i would never tell anyone again...........

kittyfun


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 19:02

Message 7 another misinformed poster on cyprus 44 it was in fact a couple Colin & Chris Weir from Largs in Ayrshire who won the money lol

shrimp


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 19:05

It cracked me up when he was intereviewed............he said he wouldnt be changing his car as the one he has is reliable!! He hasnt grasped the fact with all that money, it doesnt need to be reliable!!!! He could have a new car every week for the rest of his life...........................

ivebinad


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Posts: 224

Message Posted:
16/07/2011 19:12

people like him don't deserve to win that much money.

Pandy


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 19:15

Mess 19....they could afford a very nice car with just a couple of days worth of interest on that pile of cash!!

kittyfun


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 19:29

Message 20 ivebinad you are a buffoon, they bought a ticket so had as much right as anyone to win it, eat your heart out

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 19:44

I heard they've just ordered two gastric bands. They're being fitted on Monday.

ivebinad


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 20:41

No1, that is very naughty but it did make me laugh, they both said they had ill health problems and that is probably because they need to bloody diet and yes kitty I am jealous but you are and I don't eat my heart out for fear of ending up looking like her

shrimp


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 20:49

they say money doesn't bring you happiness but actually.....................it does help.....!

Pandy


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 21:01

Shrimp, I'd rather be miserable with money than without it lol !

Pandy


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 21:01

Shrimp, I'd rather be miserable with money than without it lol !

Pandy


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 21:03

Sorry..pressed button twice accidently

Woodspeckie


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Message Posted:
16/07/2011 21:10

She said she will be changing her car, if they have been living off benefits because they can't work it is probably a mobility one.

PhilUK


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Message Posted:
17/07/2011 00:07

Personally,I think one million is enough to change the average persons life for the better without it being an overwhelming amount-£161mill is just too much for the average person to handle,better to give 161 people £1million.

shrimp


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Message Posted:
17/07/2011 00:38

mess 29.........it said in the paper today that they already own properties which they rent out so not on benenefits...............Bet they have gone out celebrating tonight eh?

kittyfun


Joined: 11/04/2011
Posts: 181

Message Posted:
17/07/2011 10:20

Some people are really sad posters, and it goes to show the quality of mods on this board when No.1 can post such inexcusable trash, I notice it wasn't moderated :(



Shrimp, they live in a beautiful detached villa in a very sought after area of Scotland, they were not short of a shilling or two (and certainly not now) I hope they enjoy their celebrations - in blissful ignorance of the neandrethal postings by people like ivebinad, No1 Doyen & woodspeckie on 44

jimmyG


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Message Posted:
18/07/2011 17:51

Kittyfun - re Msg 18 - for your information I was misinformed by the BBC !!

dalartokat


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Message Posted:
18/07/2011 18:40

Its been announced that the Weirs have had to leave their property with their children as the begging letters were arriving and has become too much for them. It has been suggested they have gone abroad but obviously Camelot will not say and also no further comments in public will be made by these people....very sad but, its part of the course if you go public I would assume.

JohhnyLee


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Message Posted:
18/07/2011 20:02

I have not seen them, but my son in the UK saw them and he said I don't think the money will last long probably be spent in the first 12 months on food.



Message Ditto. i would imagine it will ruin them, most people who win large sums of money are not cut out to handle it, (a bit like footballers and popstars)



They say money doesn't bring happiness, but I think I could live with the misery.

dalartokat


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Message Posted:
18/07/2011 20:15

Message 35, I think it depends on what type of people you are as to whether you can handle that type of money and your lifestyle beforehand. Certainly agree with you I also could live with the misery, very easily.

JohhnyLee


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Message Posted:
18/07/2011 20:23

Sorry my post should have read message 30 Ditto.