UK lottery

[BobHelm]

For anyone who is interested...
1 person, not from the UK won the jackpot of £113,229,891.
Would imagine a little party would be in order in one household somewhere in Europe...

[Aardvark]

I'm only guessing of course, but you could probably retire quite comfortably on that in Thailand

[BobHelm]

On further reading the winner is a resident of Spain - although it is not certain if it is an individual or a syndicate.
Yes I think it would be a case of where you would like to retire to rather than afford to retire to Aa...

[beer monkey]

Here is gift from me:
Last night I had a dream about my dear departed mum. I told my wife about it. She said I should buy a lottery ticket and the numbers should be my mum's birth date...
I'm not sure if I can pass the "luck" on but, here it is: 05/11/20.
Good luck!

I used them but 'mai chanat', mai-me ber har/sib-et/yee-sip.... mai-pen-rai.

[RALPHCUSENS]

I take it that means you did not win BM


Quote BM
"I used them but 'mai chanat', mai-me ber har/sib-et/yee-sip.... mai-pen-rai"

[beer monkey]

Not even the lowest amount of £10 Ralph. ...and spent more than that on buying the tickets.

[jingjai]

Why don't we ever see the headline: " Psychic wins lottery"?

[beer monkey]

Why don't we ever see the headline: " Psychic wins lottery"?

lol...i didn't see that one coming.

[old-timer]

Douglas is not quite correct...
The rules actually say that only residents of UK etc. can take part, not that you have to be residing there. This may sound like semantics, but it is not.
For example, I am retired from work in UK now and currently on a tourist visa in Thailand. I have not been back to UK for 16 months now, but that does not stop me from being "a resident of the UK". I am entitled to be where ever I like as the holder of a UK passport, I have done nothing to indicate to the UK that I wish to give up residence of the country of my birth.
However, of course, all this is semantics as gambling is illegal in Thailand and so, of course, that would prohibit me of taking part under Thai law, not the laws of the lottery. If, however, I had, for example, purchased a ticket via the internet while on my last visit to Laos then everything would be completely legal & I would be able to claim my 110M.......
Just a thought....

Thanks for that Bob because that's the way I see it as well...

We'll, I must admit, we are both very wrong about this - here's the rules on player location restrictions:

Player Location Restrictions
Play not accepted from these locations:
Africa:
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Democratic Republic of Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe
Asia & Middle East:
Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan British Indian Ocean Territory Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macao Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestinian Territory Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Timor-Leste Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Viet Nam Yemen
Caribbean:
Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bermuda British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Guadeloupe Haiti Jamaica Martinique Montserrat Netherlands Antilles Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands U.S. Virgin Islands
Central & South America:
Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador El Salvador Falkland Islands (Malvinas) French Guiana Guatemala Guyana Honduras Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
Europe:
Ã…land Islands Albania Andorra Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Guernsey Holy See (Vatican City State) Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Jersey Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Svalbard and Jan Mayen Sweden Switzerland Ukraine
North America:
United States
Oceania:
American Samoa Australia Christmas Island Cook Islands Fiji French Polynesia Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Nauru New Caledonia New Zealand Niue Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Palau Papua New Guinea Pitcairn Réunion Samoa Solomon Islands Tokelau Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Wallis and Futuna

You can open an Account if you are aged 16 or over and are a resident of the UK or Isle of Man. To play lottery games online you must also have a sterling bank account linked to a valid UK debit card. You don't have to be a UK citizen to open an account as long as you fulfil the above requirements.

as for euromillions, presumably you need to be in Europe to play.
I can't see Canada on the list ?

[BobHelm]

Strange OT, but not something that I think they rigidly apply.
For example a friend of mine is British, works in India & any free time comes to his family in Thailand (rather than going back to UK).
A few weeks ago he won a few thousand pounds on the National Lottery. They transferred it directly to his UK bank account without any query what so ever. (rules say they will do this for anything under 5K)

[jingjai]

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_ ... t-all.html

The 10 lottery winners who blew it all

Nearly one-third of multi-million pound lottery winners become bankrupt in just a few short years of their big win, according to research conducted in America.

Here is Money Central's list of the top ten who let it all slip through their fingers…

10. Vivian Nicholson – won £152,300, lost five husbands

Vivian Nicholson famously claimed she would “spend, spend, spend” after winning £152,300 (worth about £3 million in today’s money) when playing the Castleford football pools in 1961. Since then she has been widowed, married five times, suffered from a stroke and been treated for alcoholism, deported from Malta, became a Jehovah’s Witnesses, tried to commit suicide and spent time in a mental institution. She spent her winnings on Harrods dresses, luxury cars and holidays and was the subject of the West End production of her life, aptly called “Spend, Spend, Spend”, with Barbara Dickenson playing her role. She is now living on £87 a week pension.

9. Willie Hurt – won $3,100,000, lost everything

Willie Hurt won $3.1 million in Michigan in 1989 but two years later, he had wasted it on divorce and cocaine and was charged with murder. Before his win, he was a happily married family man with an active social life, yet soon lost contact with his wife and custody of his children due to the problems his windfall brought him.

8. Evelyn Adams – won $5,400,000, lost all but her caravan

Evelyn Adams won the New Jersey lottery twice (in 1985 and 1986). The odds of this happening are 17 trillion to one, yet this “American dream” was not all “it’s cracked up to be”. Her “mistakes” included gambling away the $5.4 million fortune. She now lives in a trailer.

7. Shefik Tallmadge – won $6,700,00, lost his Ferrari

Shefik Tallmadge, of Arizona, used his last $5 to buy a lottery ticket, despite not expecting a pay-check for another fortnight. He won a cool $6.7 million. After 18 years of touring Asia and Africa, buying expensive cars and real estate, giving in to pleas for money and investing in businesses, which subsequently failed, he filed for bankruptcy in 2006.

6. Michael Carroll – won £9,700,000, lost everything but his reputation

Former bin man, Michael Carroll, won £9.7 million aged just 19 years old in 2002. The self-named “individual of Chavs” immediately bought four homes in the UK, a holiday villa in Spain, two BMWs, two Mercedes, and a stake in Glasgow Rangers Football Club. After committing petty crimes including breaching his ASBO and cocaine-possession, he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment in 2006 after he threatened teenagers with a baseball bat at a Christian Fellowship music event in Downham Market. He is now reported to be penniless once more.

5. Rhoda Toth – won $13,000,000, lost her disability claim

Rhoda Toth won $13 million in the Florida lottery in 1990. Her and her husband quickly spent the winnings and in 2006 were charged with tax evasion. They were living in poverty with electricity provided by a cord rigged to a car engine when arrested. While awaiting trial, her husband died forcing Rhoda to try avoiding jail-time by pretending to have multiple sclerosis. However, agents secretly taped her in order to prove that she did not need the crutches she had used in the courtroom. She was sentenced to two years imprisonment and ordered to pay $1.1 million to the IRS.

4. William Post – won $16,200,000, lost his family

William "Bud" Post III won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988. Unfortunately, his loved ones turned on him, when a former girlfriend sued him for a share of the winnings, his brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him and his other siblings bullied him into investing in a car business and restaurant, which then failed miserably. Post even spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill collector and within a year, he was $1 million in debt. He eventually declared bankruptcy and lived quietly on $450 a month and food stamps, claiming "I'm tired…Lotteries don't mean [anything] to me". He died on Jan 15 2006 of respiratory failure aged 66.

3. Janite Lee – won $18,000,000, lost her money but bought a seat in heaven

Janite Lee from Missouri won $18 million in 1993 but generously gave to charity and in 2001 filed for bankruptcy with only $700 left in two bank accounts. She also had a reading room at Washington University named after her and dined with world leaders including then President, Bill Clinton. Originally from South Korea, this single-mum of three worked in a wig-shop before her big win, giving it up to give generously to the Church and those in need.

2. Billie Bob Harrell – won $31,000,000, lost his life

Billie Bob Harrell won $31 million in 1997 though soon had an estranged wife and letters from pleading strangers to deal with. He gave freely to the church, charities, family and even a new, younger girlfriend. Yet the pressure was too much and Harrell’s body was discovered two years later with an autopsy confirming suicide. However, Harrell’s parents refuse to accept this and their grandchildren were left trying to figure out how to pay the estate taxes owed due to their father’s death and where the rest of the winnings have mysteriously gone...

1. Jake Whittacker – won $315,000,000, lost his car insurance

In 2002, Jake Whittacker won a $315 million power jackpot and started out with good intentions by donating money to several church-based charities and setting up a foundation that provided food and clothing to the West Virginian poor. However, his luck soon changed: he was arrested for drink driving, spent more than $100,000 in a strip-club, had $545,000 in cash stolen from his car and then another $200,000 stolen again. He became the subject of many lawsuits (most of which were settled out of court) which include being sued for gambling debts by Atlantic City casino. His granddaughter died of a drug overdose, funded by the $2,100 a week allowance he gave her.

By Rosanagh Fuller

[trubrit]

Well this 73 year old who won nearly 25 million pounds last week in the UK lottery, reckons he is going to continue growing carrots on his allotment, but he may get someone to help him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 102282.stm

[beer monkey]

Well this 73 year old who won nearly 25 million pounds last week in the UK lottery, reckons he is going to continue growing carrots on his allotment, but he may get someone to help him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 102282.stm

He simply just needs to check out the on-line carrot museum...that should do the trick with his poor carrot crop.