Saturday, May 19, 2007

Lottery turns down respray job

A motorist wanting £500 to respray his Ford Cortina applied for National Lottery funding.

Another applicant requested funding to build a replica of the Starship Enterprise while another claimed he'd proved Einstein and Newton were wrong and wanted financial help to publish his findings.

They are just some of the strangest requests for Lottery Good Cause funding, according to information released by The National Lottery.

The top 10 strangest requests for money were:

1) To respray a Ford Cortina

2) Double-glaze a private house

3) Buy a pub

4) Publish evidence to prove Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton wrong

5) Set up a dinosaur farm

6) Fund dog toilets

7) Set up an insect museum

8) Pay off a filmmaker's debts

9) Make over a garden

10) Build a replica of the Starship Enterprise

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