Congratulations!!! YOU JUST WON THE LOTTERY!!! What are you going to do?!?!?

[ForeverBlowingBubbles]

Lets say that you just found out you won...

$8,008,000,008.00
(eight billion eight million and eight dollars and zero cents, in celebration of the Olympics)

(I was going to go with 4,815,162,342... but its not that time of the year yet)


What are you going to do?
Give it all to charity?
Buy and move to a private tropical island?
Build a Casino?
Build a house on the moon?
Divorce immediately?

You can do what you want, your rich!

Say you just received your check NOW. Give a brief discription of your first 24 hours, and a big picture of what your next few years will consist of.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Unfortunately my passport is out of date, so I can't go out of country. But if it weren't, I'd go to our local airport, charter a small plane like a Cessna to fly me across country to L.A. We can take a couple days getting there, I love flying in small aircraft. Then I'd get a first class ticket to Australia, and show up at a couple friends houses unannounced with a bunch of beer.
After that, I have no idea. But my family would all be following in a couple days. The first leg I would do solo.

What I wouldn't do...
Buy a huge mansion. I would build us a reasonble house in enjoyable seclusion, but it would not be lavish. I've never gotten in to the idea of having useless space in your home.

I would quit my job, and I'd keep painting. My wife can quit too, but my kids have to get jobs, even if it's at McDonald's. They are still in high school and have not learned yet about work and developing a work ethic.

[YmoBeThere]

Those people standing on West Campus(okay not many given this time of year) would now be standing on (Insert my name here) Campus. They could just call it the Nooch. But seriously, that is way too much money to win...its not really fair. I need something more manageable like $50 million.

[Tappan Zee Devil]

Lets say that you just found out you won...

$8,008,000,008.00
(eight billion eight million and eight dollars and zero cents, in celebration of the Olympics)

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I would immediately delete the e-mail informing me of this unexpected largesse.

Jim

[rthomas]

Before you wish you won $8,008,000,008.00, consider my fellow West Virginian, Jack Whittaker who won $315,000,000 in the Powerball on December 25, 2002.

Since that time:

January 16, 2003: Jack Whittaker was arrested for drunk driving.

August 5, 2003: thieves broke into his car while it was parked at the Pink Pony, a strip club in Cross Lanes, West Virginia. The thieves went away with $545,000 in cash. Two employees at the same club, the manager and dancers manager who were romantically linked, were later arrested and charged with a plot to put drugs in Whittaker's drinks and then rob him.

January 25, 2004: thieves once again broke into his car, this time making off with an estimated $200,000 in cash that was later recovered.

January 6, 2004: Whittaker was arrested for misdemeanor assault after allegedly threatening the life of a bar manager in St. Albans, West Virginia.

He has also been sued after allegedly groping a woman at a dog racetrack. Whittaker told a TV station after he was charged with drunken driving, "It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to piss off."

September 2003, Jesse Tribble, a 17-year-old on and off again boyfriend of Jack's granddaughter Brandi Bragg, was found dead in Whittaker's home in Teays Valley, West Virginia. A coroner's report indicated that he died of a drug overdose.

December 20, 2004, Brandi, 17, was found dead after a drug overdose. After she had been missing for several weeks, her body was discovered lying under a tarpaulin near her then boyfriend's home.

May 27, 2005: Jewell Whittaker (wife) filed for divorce on in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
Whittaker is also being sued by Caesars Atlantic City casino for bouncing $1.5 million worth of checks to cover gambling losses. Whittaker is also countersuing them, claiming that his losses were supposed to be credited due to a slot machine he developed and that they in fact owe him money.

January 11, 2007, a legal complaint against Whittaker alleged that Whittaker claimed that on September 11, 2006 thieves took all of his money. The robbers, according to the account, went to 12 branches of the City National Bank and cashed 12 checks. The incident came to light because Whittaker had not been paying money to a woman who had previously sued him. Kitti French filed the complaint earlier in the week, requesting court costs and money from Whittaker.

On March 26, 2007, Jack Whittaker settled a wrongful death civil suit. The unexpected deal came not long after Whittaker was questioned about whether his money and alleged lack of supervision contributed to the death of 18-year-old Jessie Tribble. Whittaker defended providing his granddaughter, Brandi Bragg, with a $2100-per-week allowance. James Tribble alleges an un-parented Bragg funded the drug purchase that let his 18-year-old son Jessie die of a drug overdose in Whittaker's house.

On February 27, 2008, Whittaker had a "near-miss" $10,000 Powerball win (missing one of the five regular numbers, although he did match the red Powerball number.)

The lesson in all of this:
If you win $8,008,000,008.00, what ever you do, don't go to West Virginia!

[YmoBeThere]

Who the heck keeps $545,000 in cash in their car while at the strip joint. That money is for spendin'

[2535Miles]

1. Pay mom and dad back for all of those "loans" in my earlier years.
2. Hook the nephew up with a college education
3. Landscape my best friend's back yard and build a wicked cool deck, since I spend all of my time there anyway.
4. Buy a modest house
5. Reinvest into my company
6. I'd actually keep working but only after a six month tour of the world
7. Hook up DBR
8. Buy a pony
9. Buy a submarine

[Tappan Zee Devil]

9. Buy a submarine

You could fund the rebuilding/replacement of the US submersible ALVIN which is now about $50m over budget and is in jeopardy because the National Science Foundation's Ocean Sciences Division doesn't have the money. Actually the entire US marine science program is in danger because NSF doesn't have the money to keep the fleet at sea - while my little village gets $30m from the feds to redo intersections and put in granite curbs

(sorry - rant over)

[DukePA]

1. Set up a trust for the American Cancer Society
2. finish paying my parents back
3. pay off those pesky credit cards and student loans
4. buy every family member a house
5. buy myself a house on the sound side of the island with a boat dock and pool.
6. buy into the practice I work for and work part-time.

[camion]

Incredible as it may sound, I actually did win $$8,008,000,008.00 in a Nigerian lottery. Funny thing was I didn't even know I was entered. I sent in the $10,000 deposit and am now waiting to collect my money.

I plan to be prudent and not do anything silly with my soon to be new found wealth. I've always been s sensible person. My one minor extravagance is that I plan to buy up all the season tickets in Cameron and give them to my friends here at DBR. Then I'll buy all the tickets for the Dean Dome and burn them. Should make a nice bonfire.

[jimbonelson]

Lets say that you just found out you won...

$8,008,000,008.00
(eight billion eight million and eight dollars and zero cents, in celebration of the Olympics)

(I was going to go with 4,815,162,342... but its not that time of the year yet)


What are you going to do?
Give it all to charity?
Buy and move to a private tropical island?
Build a Casino?
Build a house on the moon?
Divorce immediately?

You can do what you want, your rich!

Say you just received your check NOW. Give a brief discription of your first 24 hours, and a big picture of what your next few years will consist of.

but 2 fishing boats. one in Carolina, one in Fla. hire captains. a house in Carolina and a house in Fla. retire