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  • wtf
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    • 08-22-08
    • 12983

    #1
    win 20 million in 2002, picking up garbage by 2010
    no, this is NOT ABOUT FISH HEAD, some chap in the uk


    Lotto lout Michael Carroll going back to being a binman after blowing £9.7m win

    By Daily Mail Reporter
    Last updated at 11:36 PM on 30th May 2010

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    He became the self-proclaimed king of the chavs after turning up to collect his £9.7million lottery win wearing an electronic offender's tag.

    But eight years on, having blown all that money, Michael Carroll is practising for a return to his old job as a binman.

    The 26-year-old, who squandered his multi-million fortune on drugs, gambling and thousands of prostitutes, has since February claimed £42 a week in jobseeker's allowance.
    Dress rehearsal: Michael Carroll practices wheeling bins near his Norfolk home








    Dress rehearsal: Michael Carroll practices wheeling bins near his Norfolk home

    But he is keen to get off the dole and back to earning £200 a week collecting rubbish near his home in Downham Market, Norfolk.

    The father of two told The People: ‘I can’t wait to stop signing on and start getting paid for doing a proper job like normal people.’

    He also said he hoped to see some of his old friends back on the job, adding: ‘It was a good laugh when I was doing it before I won so I don’t mind going back to it.’

    Carroll's jackpot win in 2002 disappeared with astonishing speed as the tattooed self-styled 'King of the Chavs' lavished several million pounds on family and friends and hundreds of thousands on drugs.

    By the end of 2003, he was smoking £2,000 of crack cocaine every day and hosting drug and drink fuelled parties at his £325,000 home, the notorious Grange in Downham, Norfolk.
    Lout and about: Carroll, who has been on the dole, visits his local JobCentre

    Lout and about: Carroll, who has been on the dole, visits his local JobCentre

    Angry at his life of excess, his wife Sandra left him and took their baby daughter Brooke with her.

    Rather than see the decision as a wake-up call, Carroll continued on his life of excess, turning to prostitutes.

    He boasted about sleeping with four a day - a total of 2,000 at a cost of £100,000 over eight years - in order to sate his sexual appetite.

    Carroll, who now lives with girlfriend Gemma Peake, a hairdresser with whom he has a child, once said: 'I could go for days without sleeping because of the drugs - so I would just spend night and day s****ing with all these hookers.'

    Describing how he descended into a world of drugs and paying for sex, he continued: 'I only started to think about three things - drugs, sex and gold.

    He spent a small fortune on his trademark chunky gold jewellery and a fleet of cars, including a black Mercedes van emblazoned with the phrase 'King of Chavs'.
    Winning days: Carroll, aged 19, collecting his Lotto check for £9.7million in 2002

    Winning days: Carroll, aged 19, collecting his Lotto check for £9.7million in 2002

    Repairs to properties he has wrecked with raucous parties have also cost him thousands and he reportedly lost an estimated £80,000 on a property deal in Dubai after the market fell.
    Checkered past: Carroll arrives at court in 2004 giving his traditional salute

    Checkered past: Carroll arrives at court in 2004 giving his traditional salute

    Carroll also lost £1million on the dogs and horses and even injected £1million into his favourite football team, Rangers.

    He was down to his last £500,000 cash in 2008 and last year sold his £400,000 fleet of luxury cars and spent the proceeds.

    But in February, as it emerged that he had been declared bankrupt, he told the Mail that he had no regrets about his lost fortune.

    He said: 'The party has ended and it's back to reality. I haven't got two pennies to rub together and that's the way I like it. I find it easier to live off £42 dole than a million.

    He said others had benefited from the win more than he had.

    'I'm just glad it's over. There were also vultures everywhere after my cash. I started to see what people were really like,' he explained.

    Carroll became notorious for his yobbish behaviour and answering any criticism with a one-fingered salute.

    He arrived to collect his winnings wearing an electronic offender's tag, fitted after he was found drunk and disorderly and has appeared before the courts dozens of times for anti- social behaviour.
    Madcap: Carroll fights former Gladiator Mark Smith in a charity boxing match in 2005

    Madcap: Carroll fights ex-Gladiator Mark Smith in a charity boxing match in 2005

    In 2004, Carroll was jailed for five months after failing to comply with a drug treatment order, imposed as part of a sentence for cocaine possession.

    He was also handed an Asbo by magistrates in King's Lynn, Norfolk, for catapulting ball bearings at cars and windows from his Mercedes, causing thousands of pounds of damage.

    Under its terms, he was not allowed to threaten, harass or intimidate anyone in the borough of West Norfolk, an area covering about 400 square miles.

    The order also prevented him from threatening or attempting to cause criminal damage in the same area.

    In 2008, thugs killed 12 of his dogs and ran him out of his lavish Downham, Norfolk, home and he has never returned.

    Instead it stands vandalised and derelict with his pool filled with rubbish.



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  • Slim
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    • 11-13-08
    • 4722

    #2
    What a fall from grace.
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    • iceminers26
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      • 10-13-08
      • 15600

      #3
      I don't know if I could pick back up and go back to working after thinking I was set for life and blowing that kind of money
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      • paco
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        • 05-07-09
        • 62873

        #4
        Just another idiot. I think i saw a story on this guy on show called "Curse of the Lottery". Mayr different person, but young male from UK who lost it all.
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        • wtf
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          • 08-22-08
          • 12983

          #5
          it seems like this guy did not want to be "set for life" just to live fast for a while, which he certainly did
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          • stealthyburrito
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            • 05-12-09
            • 21562

            #6
            this happens to so many lottery winners, don't have any money management skills, just like a lot here.
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            • pico
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              • 04-05-07
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              #7
              yeah, they should make a movie
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              • HustleGetPaid
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                • 10-28-09
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                #8
                Damn, talk about money burning your pockets!!!
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                • jw
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                  • 10-25-09
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by wtf
                  He boasted about sleeping with four a day - a total of 2,000 at a cost of £100,000 over eight years - in order to sate his sexual appetite.
                  Not sure i'd be boasting about sleeping with 2000 - $70 prostitutes .. obviously going for quantity over quality.
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                  • Cuse0323
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                    • 12-09-09
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                    #10
                    This makes me feel better about my losses.
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                    • Slim
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                      • 11-13-08
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                      #11
                      Originally posted by iceminers26
                      I don't know if I could pick back up and go back to working after thinking I was set for life and blowing that kind of money
                      Most people would have offed themselves because of humiliation.
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                      • wtf
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                        • 08-22-08
                        • 12983

                        #12
                        i agree , would make one hell of a movie

                        i'd go see it

                        we could have jj in the starring role
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                        • Slim
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                          • 11-13-08
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                          #13
                          Originally posted by jw
                          Not sure i'd be boasting about sleeping with 2000 - $70 prostitutes .. obviously going for quantity over quality.
                          Why pay more? They all get the job done.
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                          • urge2kill
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                            • 10-27-09
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                            #14
                            Originally posted by wtf
                            By the end of 2003, he was smoking £2,000 of crack cocaine every day
                            Can one person really smoke that much crack in a day?
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                            • suckerforparlays
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                              • 02-15-10
                              • 4536

                              #15
                              lol wow
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                              • treece
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                                • 11-28-07
                                • 6298

                                #16
                                This guy is full of shit. Smoking £2,000 of crack cocaine every day he would be a vegetable. Sleeping with 4 prostitutes a day. I can't even jerk off 4 times a day.
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                                • eidolon
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                                  • 01-02-08
                                  • 9531

                                  #17
                                  I think he was on some lottery show special. It was about people that had won the lottery but lost it all, or had horrible luck after winning. Let me try and find the video.
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                                  • dtp
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                                    • 09-17-09
                                    • 2106

                                    #18
                                    at least he had his fun for a while
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                                    • Bigmikesm
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                                      • 06-17-09
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                                      #19
                                      I would gamble away half of it. Easily.
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                                      • hoopster42
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                                        • 02-12-08
                                        • 6099

                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by iceminers26
                                        I don't know if I could pick back up and go back to working after thinking I was set for life and blowing that kind of money
                                        either you work, or you go kill yourself. what other options are there? starve to death and live on the street? if youre dumb enough to piss all the money away, you go work. if i even won a million bucks, i would watch it like a fukkin hawk. the older i get, the cheaper i fukken get. got to save for later on in life. the guy was too fukkin young when he made all that dough. if he was a much older chap like me, he would know better.
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                                        • hustla
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                                          • 10-20-09
                                          • 1235

                                          #21
                                          WHAT A ****ING IDIOT!!!!
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                                          • pico
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                                            • 04-05-07
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                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by treece
                                            This guy is full of shit. Smoking £2,000 of crack cocaine every day he would be a vegetable. Sleeping with 4 prostitutes a day. I can't even jerk off 4 times a day.
                                            4 times a day is not that much. fvcking a girl is different than jerking off.

                                            2k worth of crack could be high quality, so it might be less than you think.
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                                            • Holtgetsback
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                                              • 01-04-10
                                              • 4655

                                              #23
                                              sounds like he enjoyed his money.....

                                              good for him to go back to work. this is what the lottery is all about folks
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                                              • jagaf22
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                                                • 01-22-08
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                                                #24
                                                Interesting read!
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                                                • hoopster42
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                                                  • 02-12-08
                                                  • 6099

                                                  #25
                                                  Originally posted by treece
                                                  This guy is full of shit. Smoking £2,000 of crack cocaine every day he would be a vegetable. Sleeping with 4 prostitutes a day. I can't even jerk off 4 times a day.
                                                  he probably pissed it all away gambling
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                                                  • james4512
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                                                    • 10-27-08
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                                                    #26
                                                    This is what happens to complete failures that run into money. It's no different than athletes their lucky ticket is throwing a punch or shooting a basketball no different from cashing in a lotto ticket. It's almost funny but I was more mature than this fukk up when I was 7
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                                                    • Extra Innings
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                                                      • 02-26-10
                                                      • 15058

                                                      #27
                                                      He lived
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                                                      • tltaylor89
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                                                        • 06-19-09
                                                        • 19610

                                                        #28
                                                        Sad crazy and stupid all at the same time.
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                                                        • brock
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                                                          • 01-07-08
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                                                          #29
                                                          Easy come easy go. He wasn't to good with money management.
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