Michael Carroll, 27, became extremely rich 8 years ago when he took home the jackpot in a big lottery. Michael was at that time 19-years-old and living in small town in England. He had a quite bad reputation at that time because of his criminal past, and it didn't take long before he got the nickname "Lotto Lour" by the press. Anyhow, as a multi-millionaire Michael quit his daytime job and started[...] Read more » Won £9.7 million - now everything is gone
Joined: Dec '09
Location: Canada
Age: 62 (M)
Posts: 344
yeah i think that he didnot want say yale but jail.... anyway lose for me it like 12 million of $$ canadian dollars wow hes really bad with money .... with 12 million you can easily make all your life ....
Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 51 (M)
Posts: 696
lol i know now for what he spend the 9mil look at the pic.All the money is gone to rings and blink blink.But he was to stupid to buy real gold and buy sheet from a backyard dealer
Spending money is very easy to do when u have it. No one wants to be responsible if they don't have to. My wife proves that to me every opportunity she gets, so why would this guy be any different.
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Australia
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 6483
To be fair, I probably would have ended up dead if I received that amount of money when I was 19. I think I probably would have been permanently high.
Still, Im not much of a consumerist, I wouldn't have bought any bling, dumb cars, etc. Some would have gone on a modest house (say $500K AUS$) And a lot into investments that weren't too risky. I dont think I could make it all disappear in that amount of time. Even supporting a daily drug habit that money should last a loooong ass time.
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Lithuania
Age: 33 (F)
Posts: 1180
Sick man ... I don know how to do it.. I will give all my family membars 1mln and for me will be 4million I wont buy a big house just live in small, invest 1mln somewhere 0.5mln in poker ;D and other in bank .. that all ..
