Guy Turns down 5,000,000,000(Thats 5 BILLION WITH A B!)

http://www.planetsave.com/blog/2007/...cestral-lands/

I just want to say that i guess he's right that he is turning this down,but still.MY god,5billion Thats with A B!!!.

Lets see if i was in his situation what would i do?

1.take it.
2.Buy a Saleen S7,A Ferrari Enzo and just for the hell of it A Mclaren F1.
3.Build a 12 bed room,5 bathroom house,with a nice front yard and back yard With 2 hot tubs and 3 pools.A big out side bar with flat screen TV,And a one of those restaurant type grills to bbq foods hehe.
4.Build a nice gameing room and buy up a few computers hehe.

He's an idiot. I would take it and move to the moon or something.

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Lets see if i was in his situation what would i do?

1.take it.
2.Buy a Saleen S7,A Ferrari Enzo and just for the hell of it A Mclaren F1.
3.Build a 12 bed room,5 bathroom house,with a nice front yard and back yard With 2 hot tubs and 3 pools.A big out side bar with flat screen TV,And a one of those restaurant type grills to bbq foods hehe.
4.Build a nice gameing room and buy up a few computers hehe.

And i would move into it and we would watch the saints games

Very honorable what he is doing tho. Alittle crazy, but honorable

I agree what he is doing, Its our earth its fucked up allready. Money doesnt bring that much happyiness, he is happy with his life and money can't solve that.

My respect goes to him!

wtf if that was me i would take the money... buy another piece of land somewhere else and say it was sacred. hahaha

but thats just me.

any money will bring happyness to me

5B is alot...nuff said.

Gratz to Jeffrey though

Kill him, then take it over.

I'd invest it...in gold of course...

i think he made a good choice

ya i wouldnt turn it down i dont care lol

He turns down $5Bil because he wants to keep his land. That's understandable.

Hell I'd decline $5Bil if somebody came up to me and asked me. Suspicious.

And if it was going to get plastered over the internet, I would definitely turn it down. That's just asking for trouble.

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Originally Posted by WNxSaintGeorge

Kill him, then take it over.

LOl ^^


I see where he comes from but 5 billion is a lot. How about 2.5billion and half of the land

Lol! I would probably buy out Wendys and take it over. xD

But seriosuly that guy is one idiot. Figures though...he is french...

They weren't buying the land. They were buying the uranium. He would have still got his land, he was thinking of the environment and the respect to the dead. I hate to say I would have taken the money

can you sum this thread up in 3 words?

With that kinda money, but new land, act like its sacred! With cash like that, who's gonna argue!

The elders of the nearby places would. Uranium mining is big in areas of Kakadu National Park, but it's also a location Aboriginals are very protective of. I remember in History classes, that when they finally learnt what Terra Nulius was, they got into a fit and some 200 years or so later, they're still arguing over land with the government....

Unlike you guys, I don't think he's an idiot. He's perfectly happy with his life, and he really doesn't have a use for 5billion dollars when he's satisfied with his life. He's protecting his ancestors' land and his heritage.

The earth is already messed up enough...

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Originally Posted by WNxDeathseeker

He turns down $5Bil because he wants to keep his land. That's understandable.

Hell I'd decline $5Bil if somebody came up to me and asked me. Suspicious.

And if it was going to get plastered over the internet, I would definitely turn it down. That's just asking for trouble.

Exactly. Kakadu national park is really a unique part of Australia's landscape. Not too many know or acknowledge it but the fact that it houses one of the richest reserves of Uranium is no excuse to plunder the region. I'm with this indigenous Australian, to hell with the mining company.

I can understand that from our general point of view: detached from that part of the world, not immediately impacted by any change there; however from his point of view, that land is ancestral. It would be similar to (crude analogy, but I'm tired so whatever) selling WN out for cold cash. Something along those lines.

Aside from that: five billion? Jeez, set for life!

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Originally Posted by WNxGilthoren

The elders of the nearby places would. Uranium mining is big in areas of Kakadu National Park, but it's also a location Aboriginals are very protective of. I remember in History classes, that when they finally learnt what Terra Nulius was, they got into a fit and some 200 years or so later, they're still arguing over land with the government....

Gilth is exactly right too.

Guy made a smart choice its uranium we are talking about,I for one think we have enough nuclear weapons in the world and we certainly don't need anymore. I also realize uranium is also fuel for nuclear power plants but honestly nuclear power plants are very hazardous we need to produce more ways to obtain electricity for the general public.