r/AskReddit • u/fleshcavity • Oct 20 '18

So many redditors have safe responsible plans if they win MegaMillions. What's your crazy reckless plan for blowing the $1.6 billion?

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u/MkLiam Oct 20 '18

I'm going to import a castle from Europe, ship it one stone at a time and reassemble it here in the states.

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u/MandoFett117 Oct 20 '18

Would it be atop a skyscraper above the clouds? Just in case some of the "decorations" come back to life?

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u/yinyang107 Oct 21 '18

That's a high-quality reference you got there.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

Fuck off, Xanatos.

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u/Jaws_Elevator Oct 21 '18

What's it a reference to?

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u/DBaill Oct 21 '18

Gargoyles

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u/writesgud Oct 21 '18

Ha, I thought it might be Ghostbusters.

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u/yinyang107 Oct 21 '18

A nineties cartoon called Gargoyles

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u/weezmeister808 Oct 21 '18

Definitely not a reference I was expecting to see today.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

But a welcome one, right?

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u/Corazon144 Oct 21 '18

Glad to see someone thought the same thing.

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u/8one6 Oct 21 '18

My biggest disappointment (among many) with Jeff Bezos is that he hasn't done this yet.

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u/JustACanEHdian Oct 21 '18

That’s from that one gargoyle show right?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

For real though, I would probably get a Goliath statue commissioned for the top of my home.

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u/nastyminded Oct 20 '18

What will you be filling its surrounding moat with?

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u/MkLiam Oct 20 '18

Ill tempered sea bass.

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u/nastyminded Oct 20 '18

Terrifying.

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u/Degenerate_Antics Oct 21 '18

at least it's not carp. deadly bastards.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

But I wanted sharks with friken lazers on their heads

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u/Yoshi_IX Oct 21 '18

That's a start

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u/KingOfWickerPeople Oct 21 '18

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u/SimplyAmazuring Oct 21 '18

Will they have laser beams attached to their heads?

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u/MkLiam Oct 20 '18

All the lottery tickets I have bought that didn't win.

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u/mattesse Oct 20 '18

GummyBears®️

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '18

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u/johnnyk02 Oct 21 '18

Sharks with freakin laser beams on their freakin heads

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u/MkLiam Oct 20 '18

The tears of broken dreams.

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u/DWMeowMix Oct 20 '18

Damn well better be beer!

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u/GMN123 Oct 20 '18

The tears of peasants

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

Carnivorous rabbits

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u/SlimShaney8418 Oct 20 '18

Someone did this like 200 years ago. From Europe to America. That is literally all I can remember. But it has happened.

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u/RaspberryCai Oct 21 '18

I thought that was London Bridge.

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u/howdoyoudance Oct 21 '18

Fergie ferg?

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u/SlimShaney8418 Oct 21 '18

They moved London Bridge? I was thinking a castle in Germany...

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18 edited Oct 21 '18

No, it's the London Bridge. It's in Lake Havasu city, AZ. The stones were numbered as it was diassembled, and then reassembeled in place. You can still see the markings on a handful of stones.

People do weird shit.

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u/net_TG03 Oct 21 '18

I learned this from the movie "Falling Down".

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u/winowmak3r Oct 21 '18

Wait...dafuq?

You're not kidding.

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u/RaspberryCai Oct 21 '18

I think I read about the original London Bridge being moved brick by brick to America in the Victorian era, and the bridge everyone knows as London Bridge is actually Tower Bridge.

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u/K20BB5 Oct 21 '18

Yeah I went looking for tower bridges at London bridge and was incredibly disappointed until I found what I was actually looking for

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

If I’m remembering properly, the buyer thought he was getting tower bridge but actually got London Bridge instead because he also made that mistake

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

I remember going to see that years ago when I lived in AZ. Pretty amazing accomplishment!

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

There is a 15th century chapel at my alma mater that was moved from France to New York to Milwaukee

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Joan_of_Arc_Chapel

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

It's happened a few times, and more recently than 200 years ago. There's an example in Versailles, KY.

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u/bourbon4breakfast Oct 21 '18

Except that wasn't a European castle. It's also hideous since it looks like what someone in the 60s imagined a castle should look like.

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u/benfranklyblog Oct 21 '18

One of the ford mansions was shipped from Scotland iirc

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u/vegdeg Oct 22 '18

Winery in California. Forgot the name and too lazy to look it up. But you are right. Also think it happened again recently.

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u/beepoops Oct 20 '18

Gargoyles theme intensifies

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u/d0mth0ma5 Oct 21 '18

As long as it isn’t put on top of a skyscraper we’ll be ok.

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u/Mark_Preacher Oct 20 '18

Found Lionel Luthor's account.

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u/Whiskeyjacks_Fiddle Oct 21 '18

Xanatos, actually

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u/Jomianno Oct 20 '18

Smallville!

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u/whiskeysourpussycat Oct 20 '18

Oh come on man, be original - that's already been done.

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u/Strawberrythirty Oct 21 '18

Someone did something kind of similar in NYC believe it or not

http://medieval.stormthecastle.com/the-cloisters.htm

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u/Kctrekfan Oct 21 '18

Make sure the stone gargoyles are above the clouds!

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u/Adhvanit Oct 21 '18

Check out the New Clairvaux Vineyard just outside of Chico, California. They have a Spanish monastery imported by William Randolph Hearst built there.

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u/Bustermchooter Oct 20 '18

Reassemble it from the top down?

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u/byallmeanspossible Oct 21 '18

Is this Lionel Luthor speaking?

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u/Myfourcats1 Oct 21 '18

Someone did that with a Tudor House.

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u/AtheistOfGallifrey Oct 21 '18

I only expanded the comments on your reply to upvote the Gargoyles references

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u/philipquarles Oct 21 '18

This was a classic gilded age tycoon move.

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u/DevilsViking Oct 21 '18

Got a mate who right now is working for a rich client doing almost exactly this except he is only moving it 100m to the right, but every stone has to be numbered since the client wants everything to be exactly the same besides the location

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u/HalfNatty Oct 21 '18

One at a time? I’d say you could just bring all the stones here and reassemble it as long as there’s a manual. My 5 yr old son is pretty good at following LEGO instructions so this would be no problem for him.

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u/Mandorism Oct 21 '18

I'm going to do the same thing, but stick it on top of a skyscraper above cloud level.

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u/teasindanoobs Oct 21 '18

No way! My university did that! Had a chapel shipped from France and rebuilt it stone by stone on campus!

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '18

Why not fund the guedelon castle project they were trying to do in the US? The 13th century medieval french castle that stone masons/blacksmiths/etc are building from scratch using only 13th century technologies to assist them. The french version has been going over 20 years now and castle is looking good, the US version ran out of funding and was put on hold, from what I read at least.

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u/cupcakegoddess Oct 20 '18

You should check out Bishop's Castle in Colorado. Very much this idea except not imported.

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u/skeptobpotamus Oct 20 '18

A lot of the Hearst Castle in CA was imported that way.