The Lotto Lout

[Cowperson]

This guy has been in international news before.

A local lout in Britain wins the lottery and shows up to collect wearing a court ordered ankle bracelet.

Three years later, nothing has changed.

"Before he won the lottery, he was a nuisance," Charles Joyce, a local official, said. "He decided to carry on being a nuisance."

Among other things, he has appeared in court more than 30 times in the last three years. He has spent three months in jail on drugs charges, paid thousands of dollars in fines for vandalism and been evicted from several hotels after, for instance, ripping a chandelier from the ceiling while trying to swing from it.

He was recently ordered to perform 240 hours of community service - later increased to 300 - after shooting ball bearings through 32 car and shop windows with a catapult as he drove around in the middle of the night.

He has been issued with two antisocial behavior orders in two local jurisdictions forbidding him to threaten, harass or intimidate anyone in a 400-mile radius. He has been told by local government authorities to stop throwing raucous late-night parties and to stop holding demolition derbies on his land.

And he has been told to clean up the yard of his house, strewn as it is with tires, beer cans, food wrappers, wrecked furniture and the hulks of half-smashed-up old cars.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/internat...artner=homepage

Cowperson

[Reaper]

I'm pretty sure that if I wonnearly $20 Million Canadian at the age of 22 that my life might have looked like a scaled down version of that guy's except without the logos and gold jewelry. I hate gaudy jewely and overly obvious designer logos. However, I probably would have had the demolition derbies and wrecked a few things.

[Faid1]

Here's a great article I think I've posted before.

28 Apr 1997 Lottery millionaire Michael Allen is bludgeoned to death in a Lewiston, Maine motel room.
22 May 1999 Billie Bob Harrell, Jr. commits suicide. In June 1997, Harrell won $31 million in the Texas state lottery.
4 Sep 2001 Patrick Collier randomly wins $1 million at a McDonald's in Holly Hill, Florida. "I'm getting a Harley and a couple of houses." Two weeks later, Collier is arrested for allegedly choking and punching his fiancee in the face.
19 Dec 2001 British lottery millionaire Phil Kitchen is found dead on his couch. Kitchen had apparently drunk himself to death (whiskey).
11 Jul 2002 British lottery winner Dennis Elwell dies at work, shortly after telling a coworker that he had drunk cyanide.
21 Apr 2003 $25 million lottery winner Richard Krenzer is stabbed six times by Randall Hillyard and his son at the Swillburg Stop Bar & Grill outside Rochester, NY.


more after the link

http://www.rotten.com/library/culture/lottery-winners/

[RougeUnderoos]

Geez this is a funny story. I wouldn't want to be the guy's neighbour (actually, maybe I would) but damn he's quite the character.

But the antisocial behaviour has continued, say neighbours. The worst night recently was on Carroll's 22nd birthday in March, when he held a race lasting several hours before setting Mercedes and BMW cars alight and sending a thick pall of smoke across neighbouring properties.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lottery/story/0,...1517055,00.html

More funny stuff there. The King of the Chavs! Do we have chavs here?

[Tron_fdc]

outrageous spending sprees, drunken brawls, inappropriate public displays of affection, screaming matches with loved ones in bars, destruction of property, late-night stumbling and/or vomiting

I knew a guy once that would line up 40 shots at the bar 2 or 3 times a night, yell at his girlfriend whilst passing them around, vomit and stumble out of the bar only to go run through peoples hedges....

[peter12]

Originally posted by Tron_fdc@Sep 30 2005, 05:58 PM
outrageous spending sprees, drunken brawls, inappropriate public displays of affection, screaming matches with loved ones in bars, destruction of property, late-night stumbling and/or vomiting

I knew a guy once that would line up 40 shots at the bar 2 or 3 times a night, yell at his girlfriend whilst passing them around, vomit and stumble out of the bar only to go run through peoples hedges....

Hahaha once. He's dead right?