Most of the time, lottery winning is the dream for players worldwide. However, the next five people won their cash and spend it in the most unusual ways. GBC Time has collected the top 5 craziest cases of lottery-winning spending of all time.
One of the best things about lottery winning is definitely a surprise. Nobody is really expecting to win, but everybody wants. But if you happened to be the luckiest of all players, the next question blows your mind – how to spend this money? So here are the craziest ways to spend lottery winning.
Become an owner of the local football team
Colin Weir has always been a football fan, but he also had another passion – the lottery. In 2011, he became one of the luckiest EuroMillions lottery games and won £161 million. The winner immediately knew how to spend his cash and bought the local football team – Partick Thistle Football Club.
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EuroMillions winner invested £2.5 million in the team back in 2012. However, at this moment, he made a step back in this business and partly stopped his financial support to the football club.
Start your own alcohol-brand business
The next lottery winner decided to spend part of his winning cash on his alcohol brand. Peter Lavery won $17.7 million and invested $5 million in his business. Even before this huge win, Lavery put himself into producing high-quality whiskey.
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Eventually, this decision turned out a very good business step that brought his business to a new level.
Update your backyard
The next lottery winner on the list decided to fulfill his dream and remade his backyard into a race track. Michael Carroll was only 19 years old when he won $18 million in the National Lottery in the UK.
One of his hobbies was car racing, but it was so hard to find a perfect track for the practice. Eventually, his neighbors started complaining about the appearance of his backyard and the constant noise out there.
The story of this lottery winner is not so a happy ending. Carroll lost not only his house and personal race track but also his funds.
Lottery winning for a divorce
When any couple wins the lottery, it may seem that their problems vanish at once, but not for this one. Roger Griffiths and his wife won $3.2 million. But Griffiths decided to spend $30 000 on his music band, which was not a good idea.
After a business and art failure, the couple was going through a difficult time which eventually led to divorce.
House on the Moon
David Copeland won $1 million in the lottery. At the first sight, it seems like a very normal situation, in which a winner would probably buy a house in a beautiful place. However, not the case. Copeland decided to purchase not just regular land for a house, but a small part of the Moon, Mars, and Venus.
Maybe someday, the world will see the news about the first house owner on another planet.
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