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A FATHER is in hiding from his furious famly after tricking them into thinking he had won $85.88 million in the Euro lottery jackpot.
Fergus Frater, 46, promised his son Jordan, 25, a $12.5 million share of the jackpot and told his sister Lorraine that she would get a $2.5 million cut of the winnings, the Daily Mail reported.
He also fooled his local newspaper, The Argus, who splashed the story on its front page.
Son quits job
Jordan, a struggling roofer, quit his job. He and pregnant girlfried Lucy Scrivens planned to move to Australia with their young daughter.
But he soon realised someting wasn't quite right when the name of the real winner, postal worker Angela Kelly, was revealed and Mr Frater disappeared from his home town of Littlehampton, West Sussex, the Daily Mail reported.
Jordan was forced to ring his boss and ask for his job back.
"We're so skint so it was a dream come true," he told the Daily Mail.
"I could kill him ... but he's gone to ground and I've no idea where he is.
"He's never done anything like this before.
"We just can't work out what possessed him but he was telling everybody and the whole town thought he'd won."
Mr Frater's sister, Lorraine told The Argus her brother told her he was planning to use the money to move back to his native Scotland.
"He told me he won the lottery and has just totally disappeared off the face of the Earth ever since," she said.
Loyal locals
Some locals jumped to Mr Frater's defence with friends telling the Daily Mail he genuinely believed he won the jackpot.
Landlady of the Marine pub, in Littlehampton, Penny Ward stood by her friend.
"I think he believed he had won to be honest. It was only yesterday we found out who really won it," she said. |
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22260397-2,00.html
i'd hunt my dad down and inform him that i wasn't gonna kill him. then id beat him to death with a shovel to show him what it feels like to be lied to. |
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| EgosXII |
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
best prank ever!!
Imagine the years that dude would have had to invest, building their trust, just to completely PWN them, and i can say, it appears it was worth it for the world... not for the family themselves obviously, but this made MY day.... :D |
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| Dj_Es-Dva |
| Wow take away the word million from those amounts and it sounds like something that happens daily in tasmania |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj_Es-Dva
Wow take away the word million from those amounts and it sounds like something that happens daily in tasmania |
You substitute older brother or cousin instead of father and it could well be Tasmania! |
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| Omega_M |
| so generally, fathers, elder brothers or cousins of people living in Tasmania are lying bastards. |
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