While practicing auto rotations during a military night training exercise a helicopter pilot screwed up the landing and landed on the tail rotor. The landing was so hard that it broke off the tail boom. However, the chopper fortunately remained upright on its skids, sliding down the runway doing 360 degree spins.

As the helicopter slid past the tower, trailing a brilliant shower of sparks, the tower radioed “Sir, do you need any assistance?” The pilot replied, “I don’t know yet Tower, we’re not done crashing!”

Which reminds me, whilst I’m on the subject of helicopters – a 10 strong syndicate of co-workers employed by Bell Helicopters in Roanoke, Texas, are also doing 360 degree spins after taking the $28 MILLION jackpot in last Saturday’s Texas Lotto.

The group of seven men and three women pay 5 bucks apiece into their weekly lottery pool which finally hit pay-dirt after matching the numbers 13 – 36 – 38 – 45 – 46 – 49. After a ding dong celebration at Billy Miner’s Saloon in Fort Worth on Sunday the group threw a “sickie” yesterday and nipped over to Austin, Texas, to claim their prize.

Well you don’t have to either pilot a helicopter or even build a helicopter to win a lottery jackpot, but you do need a lottery ticket and you can get one of those right here at WinTrillions where you can also play the biggest and richest lotteries in the world!

What’s more, why play alone when you can increase your winning chance by joining a lottery syndicate? Lottery syndicates win more jackpots than single players! Why? Because they buy more tickets – buy just ONE ticket and you only have ONE wining chance – now pool your buying power with 9 other players just like the “helicopter 10” – you won’t spend any more on tickets – but now you’ve got TEN winning chances! Pool your buying power with 99 other players – you STILL won’t spend any more on tickets – but now you’ve got ONE HUNDRED winning chances!

The phone rings at Police headquarters. “Hello – is this the Police?” “Yes. What do you want?” “I’m calling to report the criminal activities of my neighbour Ted Smith; he’s hiding illegal substances in his firewood.” “This will be noted!” Next day, the Police arrive and crawl all over Smith’s house, including the shed where the firewood is kept, break every piece of firewood, find no suspicious substances, swear at Ted Smith and leave.

The neighbour then rings the Smith’s house. “Hello, Ted! Did the Police come?” “Yes.” “Did they chop your firewood?” “Yes, they did.” “Great, now it’s your turn to call them in. I need my vegetable patch ploughed.” Now that’s what I call lateral thinking!

Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach. It’s that kind of thinking that we’ve adopted here at WinTrillions which enables you to play many of the world’s biggest and richest lotteries without even leaving the comfort of your favourite armchair.

Take for example, Australia’s OZ Lotto draw; it’s due to be played in less than 24 hours and currently has a jackpot worth US$52 MILLION! If you’ve not played Oz Lotto before – here’s the lowdown! Oz Lotto is drawn every Tuesday evening – to play just choose any seven numbers from 1 to 45. The ball pool has a total of forty-five balls numbered 1 to 45 from which nine balls are randomly selected. Match the first seven balls out of the machine to nail the jackpot – the eighth and ninth balls are the “supplementary numbers” used to award prizes across the other 6 prize divisions.

Now if you want in on the $52 MILLION OZ Lotto jackpot action but can’t get to Australia by the 7:30pm “OZ” time ticket cut-off deadline tomorrow then the simplest solution is just buy your ticket right here at WinTrillions, the world’s largest lottery website, with more games, more jackpots and more chances to win than anywhere else. Remember with WinTrillions you’ll never lose a ticket, never miss a draw and you’re guaranteed to receive your prizes whenever you win!

Did I ever tell you about the multi millionaire lottery winner who was bored and at a bit of a loose end one day? To help pass the time he asked his butler to find him 3 guys who might be up for a sporting challenge. A little while later the butler returned with the 3 challenger hopefuls. The millionaire says “OK here’s the deal – the first one who can swim successfully across this pool filled with sharks, eels, and leaches can have whatever he wants for a prize.”

No one replied and the millionaire was about to give up when all of a sudden he heard a splash; looked around to see one of the men swimming as fast as he could, dodging all the sharks, eels, and leaches. The millionaire was mightily impressed that someone had enough guts take up his challenge, went over to congratulate the swimmer and asked him what he wanted for his prize. The swimmer replied somewhat angrily, “I want the fool who pushed me in!”

So have you ever thought about what you would do if you won a big lottery jackpot? Recently New Zealand Lotteries asked that very same question in a survey of 500 adult lottery players. Some of the more unusual responses included: starting a reptile park; buying Chihuahuas; taking a trip to Australia to hunt pigs; buying a flash dog house with under-floor heating; purchasing a castle; becoming a philanthropic goddess; creating a motorbike track and affording fresh starched linen sheets every night.

But when it came down to reality, actual Lotto winners spent their new winnings on fertility treatment, a gastric bypass, Prada shoes, an ambulance, house bus, a restaurant, varicose vein operation, golf clubs, a Rolex watch, helicopter flights and a pottery kiln.

The survey also listed the top 10 lottery player’s dreams:

1. Travel 23%
2. Invest the money 11%
3. Give to charity 7%
4. Buy a new car or motorbike 7%
5. Give to family or pay off family member debt 5%
6. Purchase property or a house 5%
7. Go on a shopping spree 4%
8. Put it in the bank / bank it and think about it 4%
9. Buy clothes 3%
10. Buy a classic/exotic car or motorbike 3%

So there we have it – the only thing is – to realise any of your own lottery winning dreams you’ve got to have a lottery ticket – the place to get one is right here at WinTrillions where you can play the biggest and richest lotteries in the world and who knows by this time tomorrow you could be organising your very own swimming challenge?

It just goes to show what a couple days and frenetic lottery ticket buying fever does for jackpots – on Wednesday the forecast for today’s Mega Millions jackpot was expected to reach an unbelievable $476 MILLION – a new world lottery record! Well it appears that lottery tickets are flying out of the print terminals faster than green grass through a goose which means that the jackpot for today’s Mega Millions draw has been revised upwards and has now reached a staggering, $540,000,000 – that’s FIVE HUNDRED and FORTY MILLION dollars!

FIVE HUNDRED and FORTY MILLION bucks! DING DONG – that might just be enough to pay for a full tank of gasoline, with maybe a bit left over for your electric bill and a small contribution towards your credit card account; well perhaps I’m a touch optimistic with the credit card bit – a bit of lottery fever and you see how easy it is to get carried away!

I guess we also need to revise the size of the dollar stack – if $476 MILLION dollars piled on top of each other makes a stack 34.4 miles high then $540 million bucks stands another 2.5 miles taller to reach 36.9 miles into the sky. Now that really is reaching for the stars!

Well you’ll be pleased to know there’s still time to get in on the Mega Millions action; the good news is you don’t have to wait in any of the long queues at lottery vendors to get your ticket for tonight’s draw – you can play right now, right here at WinTrillions just click the links, pick your numbers, sit back and enjoy the ride and who know by bedtime tonight you could be FIVE HUNDRED and FORTY MILLION dollars richer!