re: If you were a billionaire, what petty pastimes would you have?

I’d be responding to this thread from Lake Como..

I'd buy a hanger full of old warbirds - 3 P51 Mustangs, F4AU Corsair, and 3-4 others and then fly around to air shows etc. to remind people about the history of these great old planes and the men who flew them.

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I'd start a towing company in Baton Rouge that specifically targeted Riverside vehicles and their employees

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This is a good one. I would buy a bunch of boots and specifically target all the parking enforcement city employees in new orleans. Would be incredibly therapeutic.

I would create a 'reality' TV show, where I got real progressive liberals to move into the worst areas of cities like Detroit, East St. Louis, etc. for one year.

All their expenses would be paid. They would have body cameras 24-7 basically. They could not own guns and would be required to live and work in the area like a regular person. Park their car in the street. Shop at the local grocery store, etc.

Then we'd see how their attitudes have changed after a year of getting mugged and their car broken into.

Easy Lex Luthor 900 miles








That and clone some John Byrnes to release back into Marvel and DC. But that's not petty, just pragmatic.

I'd probably start with paying off past debts, but that's just me.

Pay one of Alabama's student trainers one million dollars to go public saying they were forced to have a sexual relationship with Nick Saban.

Also y'know not petty or hobbies.

I’d build a stadium for my private high school’s football and track & field teams. It would be twice as big as the municipal one they pay to use now. frick that school by building one twice that size and put up billboards taunting how little their‘s is. Of course I’d put up statues honoring the first 2 (the only 2 for the first 50 years there and I played for both) and put a huge bust of my head that they had to touch as they entered the stadium named after me and during track season the girls would have to touch my wife’s (former NCAA All-American) head. I’d finish off the donation with another $5m for upkeep and all monuments/structures with a lockdown on never changing the name!

Then I’d travel the world, buy a suite at Davis-Wade & Soldier Field, and have my own private pilot to fly me overnight from State’s Saturday night games to the Bears Sunday noon games. Oh and I’d pay 10 years of the costs to keep the OT online.