If You Were a Billionaire for Five Hours

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#1 PSP107
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http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109237/if-you-were-billionaire-for-five-hours

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#2 Ringx55
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Well, I'd go buy the most expensive escort for a date ;)
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#3 smc91352
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Damn, that bank was mean. :(
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#4 thriteenthmonke
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I'd spend several hours everyday making prank calls on justin.tv.
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#5 michael_1234576
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Well, I'd go buy the most expensive escort for a date ;)Ringx55
guess I'd be on a date with this guy.
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#6 XanderKage
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If I actually was (unlike the article), I'd spend ALL the money. This way I wouldn't care if they took the rest of the money away after 5 hours. I'd still have billions worth of stuff. I like stuff.

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#7 Strider_91
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I'd buy Gamespot.. and with that.. you would all be my minions :evil:
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#8 MagikarpSplash
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I'd buy as much as I could. :P
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#9 Ringx55
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[QUOTE="Ringx55"]Well, I'd go buy the most expensive escort for a date ;)michael_1234576
guess I'd be on a date with this guy.

Love at first sight for money :oops:

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#10 Ultrabeatdown55
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Could he have spen that with no penalties or did he have to report i immediately?

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#11 hiphopballer
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i would buy as much stuff as i can. no one is stopping me :x

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#12 smc91352
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If I actually was (unlike the article), I'd spend ALL the money. This way I wouldn't care if they took the rest of the money away after 5 hours. I'd still have billions worth of stuff. I like stuff.XanderKage
I'd buy everyone in the Valley a Prius :twisted: hehehe The roads will be so awesome...
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#13 michael_1234576
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[QUOTE="michael_1234576"] guess I'd be on a date with this guy.Ringx55

Love at first sight for money :oops:

as long as you pay upfront.
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#14 Ringx55
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[QUOTE="Ringx55"]

[QUOTE="michael_1234576"] guess I'd be on a date with this guy.michael_1234576

Love at first sight for money :oops:

as long as you pay upfront.

I think that's quite possible with 88 billion.... O, and 2ed base is a must.
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#15 nelson415
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Probably buy a lot of stuff online

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#16 DealRogers
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I'd buy some rights in mega companies like Sony or Microsoft, buy the best restaurants in my city and if I have some money left I'd buy some games :D

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#17 The_Bio_Shu
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for five hours? seriously, id go to subway and buy a sub. then give the rest to charity.
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#18 _BlueDuck_
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I would have bought out a majority of the shares of the bank and then blocked them from fixing the error.

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#19 Ultrabeatdown55
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for five hours? seriously, id go to subway and buy a sub. then give the rest to charity.The_Bio_Shu
You don't have enough money for a sub :?
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#20 Andrn
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Keep all the companies I like in business, buy some lunch, then the rest to charity.
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Get my own Blackwater.

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#22 The_Bio_Shu
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[QUOTE="The_Bio_Shu"]for five hours? seriously, id go to subway and buy a sub. then give the rest to charity.Ultrabeatdown55
You don't have enough money for a sub :?

fine... i wont get the doubled meat.... and only get a 6 inch... :(
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#23 MetroidPrimePwn
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Burn it in front of poor people.

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#24 xhellcatx
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Is withdrawing all the money and putting it into a different bank cheating? ....

Edit:

So I read the article now lol and i guess it is cheating. I wouldnt touch that, with bank errors like that, if you spend it, you gotta pay it back. Which is wrong imo... their error

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#25 Matthew_Kaeser
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Knowing my luck, I'd probably be napping and be none the wiser.

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#26 surrealnumber5
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[QUOTE="michael_1234576"][QUOTE="Ringx55"]

Love at first sight for money :oops:

Ringx55

as long as you pay upfront.

I think that's quite possible with 88 billion.... O, and 2ed base is a must.

it had better be more like a shutouts worth of grand slams for that kind of dough

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#27 Colin1192
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withdraw, find a hobo, flash the money to him, ask him if he wants any, he mumbles in hobo speak ( I assume he is saying yes), I then say oh well that is too bad then kick him and run.

stupid hobos

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#28 ZookGuy
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I'd buy Texas.
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#29 PSP107
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Well, I'd go buy the most expensive escort for a date ;)Ringx55
What chick will be considered expensive
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#30 Console_Gamer93
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Not sure but i would keep 999 million dollars for when the 5 hours were up.

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#31 curtkobain
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buy some coke
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#32 Stevo_the_gamer  Moderator
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Well, if it was a mistake. I don't want to be held liable for anything to be honest if I went on a huge-ass spending spree.
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#33 one_plum
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Blow all that money on commodities and sell them all. At least I'll become a permanent multi-millionaire.

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#34 StripTheSoul
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Burn it in front of poor people.

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Took the words out of my mouth.

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Kill my enemies. They can't take back death... unless they had some kind of resurrection machine.

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#36 Pariahdox
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Id buy pay 100 of the most beautiful women I could find a million dollars each to come live with me on my island I purchased with a portion of the money in the ocean, than I would spend the rest of the money to build infrastructure, and buy weapons to protect our country from any invaders. Than I would begin to reproduce and create a small tropical country named after me, filled by people who look like me. lol.
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#37 tocool340
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Go to different locations and withdraw more than $100,000 by the time I'm done visiting all the banks. If I know it's an error, I'd make sure I'd get the most I can.....

Or maybe do what that guy did but only transfer a more reasonable than what he wanted...

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#38 Kenny789
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*looks at mall not far from me* Yeah I think I know where I'd be.
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#39 mlbslugger86
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i'll buy and payoff a yacht, buy a audi r8, and buy all the games i missed on the playstation 3 and 360

oh and get a whole entertainment center

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#40 Stevo_the_gamer  Moderator
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On second thought, I'd donate all of it to a plethora of charitable organizations. How much of an **** would the bank be to try to get back all of its donated money?
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#41 Pariahdox
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[QUOTE="Ultrabeatdown55"][QUOTE="The_Bio_Shu"]for five hours? seriously, id go to subway and buy a sub. then give the rest to charity.The_Bio_Shu
You don't have enough money for a sub :?

fine... i wont get the doubled meat.... and only get a 6 inch... :(

Damn right... The double meat is fo..... YO MOMMA!
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#42 gameguy6700
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I'd transfer all the money to a new account and use some of it to hire an army of attorneys, including all of my own bank's attorneys. Then after I won the civil suit I'd go about the rest of my life chilling as a billionare.

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#43 pianist
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There would be no point in being a billionaire for a few hours if you were unable to keep any of it. Even if you spent money on services, you'd still have to pay back the same amount in the end, so it would be just like paying out of your own pocket.

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#44 Cube_of_MooN
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Well, if he had spent any of it, I'm sure the bank would want it back, so he wasn't really anything. Still, it would be a good story. But if I had a billion dollars for five hours, I don't think there would be much I could do with it in that short a time.

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#45 Schin360
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Set all the money on fire xD

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#46 htekemerald
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Send it all to charity. I'd love to see the bank try to claw back its money from dozens of charity organizations.

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April Fools!

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#49 Pariahdox
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I'd buy an extremely powerful computer, so I could be one of those people that post their computer specs in their sig, and be proud of it. :D

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#50 muller39
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Buy a new house for my parents, new cars for my parent, pay for mine and my sisters college tuitions, buy every video game and system in the world, buy alot of stock, and alot of lotto tickets.