What would you do with $250 million USD?

You wouldn't be too popular at the local rugby club buying soft drinks for a small band of players. ;-)

 

blow and hookers.... around the world!!!

 

Take many many flying lessons and then buy this...

http://www.prideaircraft.com/flanker.htm

 

Cocaines a hell of a drug.

 

- Pay off the debt and mortgages of everyone I care about
- Give a million to local, small-town charities
- Give 20-30 million to international efforts to help children (preventing malaria, better education, etc)
- Buy one of the islands off the coast of Greece. I hear they could use a few dollars.
- Build a mansion on said island
- Zombie-proof said mansion
- Buy all the toys I want (Camera stuff, car, boat, home theatre etc)
- Make my fiancé feel like a princess
- Invest a whole bunch into new energy sources - we need these badly
- Take trips around the world, with the goal to experience local culture in as many countries around the world that it is safe to do so.
- Travel to the ISS and stay there for a sufficient amount of time to call myself a time traveler.
- Write and publish a book
- Throw a big party or two (you're all invited)
- put any of it that is left when I die into a fund with the goal of improving the lives of the worlds poorest people through unconventional means.

That's a start, anyhow.

 

Its hookers and blow, dammit!

I wonder whats the cheapest fighter jet you can buy thats not a complete piece of junk/too old to fly.

After all most WWII fighters you see at air shows are actually replicas

And what about raptors?

 

By far the cheapest is the L-39C Albatros. Airworthy examples go for around US $250,000+ which is a bargain for any jet powered aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_L-39_Albatros

You are wrong about most WWII warbirds you see at airshows being replicas. They are usually the real deal. The few types they do make replicas for are often kit planes made of fiberglass and almost never made to scale.

 

Round door handles, job done.

 

I'd open an arcade.

 

Send my kids to Oundle private school so they can get the best education possible. Move to a nice 5 or 6 bedroom house in or around Oundle.
I'd probably also purchase a second home in Monaco so we had somewhere nice to go on holiday. Kit the properties out, and go car shopping:

Ferrari Dino 246 GTS
Ferrari California
Ferrari F430 Scuderia
Aston Martin V12 Vantage
And a fully kitted out Range Rover Vogue SE to do the school run.

Invest $150 million, of which $50 million would be in AAPL stock. This would be the kid's nest-egg for their future. I'd also sort my Parents out and both my Sisters.

And somewhere along the lines, hopefully I'd find a nice girl to share all this with.

 

I'd hire some scientists to genetically engineer animals to create real life Pokémon.

 

As in terms of gaming, I would buy some nice property, build up a nice hall and put in every 70s, 80s & 90s deticated arcade cab I liked to play or to own back then. In a different hall, a full PC Engine Hard & Software collection could be found behind show case glasses.

And still I would have left about 243 millions of dollars after that!

 

Ha-ha! Brilliant.

 

I'd try to save as much rain forest as I could.

Wanted to do that since I was a kid. Still do. Laugh if you want.

I love the diversity of species in the rain forest, truly fascinating, it is something worth to be preserved by all means.

 

I'd just buy an underground bunker large enough for me, and my girlfriend plus future family. Then, I would stock it with a life time supply of food, and have a farm above ground with servants hired to manage it.

Also, I would hire a team of genetic engineers to make me a blue hedgehog with red shoes.

 

With that 250 million, I'd hire you to Raptor-proof my mansion. You are clearly an expert in that field.

 

I would buy an island, then buy a library to put on my island and read for the rest of my life

 

Buy up all the worlds rarest games & betas then line them all up in a row. Then get a steamroller & get a tv crew to film it in super high definition as i go over the lot reducing them to powder. Then broadcast it worldwide so i can hear the tears of a million fanboys weeping, then collect those tears & fill a swimming pool so i could float on all that anguish LOL

 

Heck ya. I'd love to have a Bulbasaur!

 

I'd also like to have Michael Buffer wake me up every morning for a week. "Lets get ready to rumble!" btw the fight sucked hard last night on HBO, Williams VS Cintron.