“Dopey Derek” Ladner Scoops Double Lotto Win
THE Mirror calls Derek Ladner “dopey”, however, one imagines that the lucky Lotto winner doesn’t really care what anyone calls him anymore.
The 57-year-old is no doubt celebrating at this very moment after winning a £1million double share of the jackpot after buying two winning lottery tickets.
The married father-of-one had bought a second ticket, using his usual numbers again, after simply forgetting that he had purchased one already. But that absent-mindedness proved incredibly lucky for Ladner when the £2.4million jackpot was split between five winning tickets, and he had two of them – worth £479,142 each.
Camelot said yesterday: “This chap has doubled his money after winning two shares of the jackpot. He is the first person to win twice in the same draw.”
Ladner, from Redruth in Cornwall, and his wife plan to spend part of their winnings on a luxury holiday and doing up their home.
A friend of the winner says: “We’re all going to rib him about being crowned Britain’s first bad memory lotto millionaire. He’ll never live it down.”
He might not live it down but he’ll probably be on the look-out for wittier friends.
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August 11th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Julian. You’re criticizing the way English people talk and write, but at the same time you made some serious grammatical mistakes in your post. People sucks? How retard? ROFL. Enough said.
August 4th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
English people sucks! so funny how they talk and write. mate! how fucking retard!
August 4th, 2007 at 12:56 am
dunno mate you tell me after all you one of em
August 1st, 2007 at 10:55 am
Er, who’s dopey here? Is it the guy who won or the Camelot spokesman who can’t do the math!? If the guy had bought just one ticket then he would have had a one quarter share of £2.4m, which is £600,000. He instead bought two tickets and so received a two fifths share of £2.4m, which is £960,000. So he didn’t “double his money” but increased his winnings by 60%.
If he had bought two tickets, and they had been the only winning tickets, then I suppose the same Camelot spokesman would have again said he had doubled his money! Doh!!
Been reading your forums and your newspapers and online news reports. Can somebody perhaps explain to me why there are so many witless, crude, uneducated, stupid people in the UK?