Showing posts with label making money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label making money. Show all posts

Friday, 18 March 2011

Man wins £1.4m in a fluke £2 bet...



Heating engineer Steve Whiteley said he had only gone to Exeter racecourse because it was free to get in.
He placed a £2 accumulator bet at the suggestion of his mates, and then watched in disbelief as, one-by-one, his horses came in.
It is by far the biggest Tote jackpot ever won, and Mr Whiteley is the first ordinary punter to win it - it has only been done previously by a syndicate and a professional gambler.
If the starting prices of all of the horses he backed are added together, the combined odds of him winning were just over 870,000-1.
To win the accumulator Mr Whiteley, from North Tawton, had to pick the winners of all six races at the meet.

Thursday, 17 June 2010

Would you like porn with that?


A burger van has been seized by police in Driffield, East Yorkshire, after complaints by outraged residents that they have been seducing male customers in by playing porn while they wait for their burger on a portable television inside.

It wasn't like they could hide the fact that they were offering a free DVD to anyone who payed more than a fiver as inside a sign read "Personal service guaranteed. Free Porno!"

Undercover police officers first investigated the van and really took the case undercover, if you get what I mean. When all the Porn was seized it was sent to East Riding courts trading standards, so they could knock one off as well.

A policeman gave a statement saying "It's hard to imagine that someone would offer porn to try and increase their sales," but I'm managing alright.