what would you do with 250 million dollars...open to everyone

**Viebster** · 09-03-2009 04:46 PM

Lots of bushings. lots and lots and lots.

**snozzboarder55** · 09-03-2009 04:48 PM

make the best run ever! then have the fattest freeride/race/slide comp ever! and if theres any left over skrilla buy new bearings.

-or-

$250 million worth of private lessons from k-rimes haha

**rosewood thief** · 09-03-2009 04:49 PM

first i would move to a place with bigger hills.

then i would organize the biggest event weve ever seen, bigger than maryhill and the X-Games put together. and then put downhill back in the X-Games, then with the left over money buy some boards and precisions

**snozzboarder55** · 09-03-2009 04:54 PM

Originally Posted by rosewood thief

first i would move to a place with bigger hills.

then i would organize the biggest event weve ever seen, bigger than maryhill and the X-Games put together. and then put downhill back in the X-Games, then with the left over money buy some boards and precisions

dude that was my idea!

lets team up and buy $500 million (minus cost of your precisions/decks) worth of mountain range and pave it for the gnarliest of the gnar longboarding extravaganzas!

**rosewood thief** · 09-03-2009 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by snozzboarder55

dude that was my idea!

lets team up and buy $500 million (minus cost of your precisions/decks) worth of mountain range and pave it for the gnarliest of the gnar longboarding extravaganzas!

i know i know. when i started to type viebster had the last post, and then i posted and was like, "you bastard!" and hell yes, pave the entire damn mountain, so you can take any path you want

**-Mu-** · 09-03-2009 05:16 PM

I mean with crazy money like that I dream of setting up a "garage" for skaters only, with variable courses and styles of runs so you can go down a bunch of different ways and difficulties, practice and such etc.

But for the most part it'd kind a be nice just to own a shop. Maybe a good building in some downtown area, set up a place to live on the tops floors and have a nice shop. Hell a warehouse would be an amazing option for that, it'd give room for people to *gasp* TRY A BOARD.

I dunno, I probably wouldn't spend much of it on board stuff. Land/a home would be priority. I don't even know where I'd want it though, so I'd probably have to hold on to it for a while....

**snozzboarder55** · 09-03-2009 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by -Mu-

I mean with crazy money like that I dream of setting up a "garage" for skaters only, with variable courses and styles of runs so you can go down a bunch of different ways and difficulties, practice and such etc.

But for the most part it'd kind a be nice just to own a shop. Maybe a good building in some downtown area, set up a place to live on the tops floors and have a nice shop. Hell a warehouse would be an amazing option for that, it'd give room for people to *gasp* TRY A BOARD.

I dunno, I probably wouldn't spend much of it on board stuff. Land/a home would be priority. I don't even know where I'd want it though, so I'd probably have to hold on to it for a while....

i love the demo board idea, i've been to one shop that has decks set up to try and it's really helpful when picking out a deck or an entire setup.

**Hanael** · 09-03-2009 05:27 PM

. . .
i'll buy several companies with that much money.

**Dancer** · 09-03-2009 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by flannelman

well no one has said it, but...

buy Dozer's stuff.

(that or become him)

I say buy him.
Hopefully he would bring his stuff.

**leadfoot** · 09-03-2009 05:38 PM

Id make a big budget movie about longboarding starring Tom Cruise, and accidently have a prop malfunction at the end which finishes that dork.

The film will be a huge hit and Id make another 500m. With that money I would buy a shitload of skateboards for underprivileged kids.

See? Tom Cruise could be useful for something after all.

**snozzboarder55** · 09-03-2009 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by leadfoot

Id make a big budget movie about longboarding starring Tom Cruise, and accidently have a prop malfunction at the end which finishes that dork.

The film will be a huge hit and Id make another 500m. With that money I would buy a shitload of skateboards for underprivelidged kids.

See? Tom Cruise could be useful for something after all.

um if you kill tom cruise who is gonna protect us from the russian migs? and if you kill him you'll have to mess with val kilmer, he's tom's wingman after all.

R · 09-03-2009 06:07 PM

I'll resurrect International Longboarder magazine

**leadfoot** · 09-03-2009 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by snozzboarder55

...and if you kill him you'll have to mess with val kilmer, he's tom's wingman after all.

Val Kilmer hates him too, ....In fact, he is the mastermind behind this whole idea.

He plays K-Rimes, and shoots Tom with a gun that is supposed to be loaded with blanks.

**FBD** · 09-03-2009 06:23 PM

i'd use the money to buy weapons, ammunition, and bodies to invade Chile and take over the country. once the government is overthrown and the country is mine, Chile becomes the Republic of Stokia. No passports needed at the airport, just your quiver and bring some food/drink.

**snozzboarder55** · 09-03-2009 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by leadfoot

Val Kilmer hates him too, ....In fact, he is the mastermind behind this whole idea.

He plays K-Rimes, and shoots Tom with a gun that is supposed to be loaded with blanks.

o, well then proceed

**wefunk** · 09-04-2009 12:27 AM

set up a huge wefunk production facility, enticing composite workers away from F1 and then sell wefunks for ridiculously little money just because.
also buying a nice mountain in switzerland with a comfy chairlift for the way back up.

**dave_p** · 09-04-2009 08:01 AM

i would buy some kind of sustainable skate related business, that would provide for a comfortable lifestyle, or supplement my current income/lifestyle. as long as i made enought to pay my parents, and inlaws houses, my house, kids to college and some future dough for them id be good. most of the rest would go to building concrete skateparks all over the country.

im sure 250 million would go way faster than one would expect. probably couldnt even buy one of the the major magazines for that much.

oh yeah, almost forgot. a right hand kidney, and a 1/2 pipe in the back yard.

**stringtheory** · 09-04-2009 08:04 AM

I would buy all of the inventory of every longboard manufacturer and shop. In fact I'd buy every company and every shop. All of it. And let no one have any.

**moldyghosty** · 09-04-2009 08:08 AM

Fly around in a jet pack, naked, duh.

Edit: Okay, um skate related- I would buy a serious amount of land in the Tennessee mountains and build the most wicked park ever, complete with a downhill IGSA race course open year round to anyone willing to sign the waiver.

**brittin** · 09-04-2009 08:35 AM

id probably buy my own island (theyre arent as much as you would think) and build on it. maybe make own little longboard resort haha and i would probably openb some businesses to keep that cash flow coming in.....oh and maybe a pack of juicy fruit