{"id":1891,"date":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/21\/metal-detectorist-wins-50k-from-4-bet\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:42:09","slug":"metal-detectorist-wins-50k-from-4-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/metal-detectorist-wins-50k-from-4-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal detectorist wins \u00a350k from \u00a34 bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-01-21 14:11:02<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A metal detectorist has bagged \u00a350,000.<BR><br \/>\nPaul Collingwood, 73, has been hunting for treasure for years, but it was a \u00a34 bet at a Betfred branch in County Durham that helped him strike gold.<BR><br \/>\nHe opted for four numbers &#8211; 13 for his birthday and 19, 30 and 41 that were chosen at random.<BR><br \/>\nAfter his success on New York Lottery bets, Collingwood splashed the cash on a new car to tour with his friends from the metal detecting club.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: &#8220;I have had \u00a38k and \u00a312k wins before, but \u00a350k is by far the biggest.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve worked hard all my life and if I could I&#8217;d be working now, but my mind wants to but not the body.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It has been a great start to the New Year.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nBetfred boss Fred Done added: &#8220;It&#8217;s brilliant that this loyal customer has found his treasure, not on the moorland practicing his metal detecting hobby, but at his local Betfred shop.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;And all for just \u00a34.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xgs2h.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-01-21 14:11:02 A metal detectorist has bagged \u00a350,000. Paul Collingwood, 73, has been hunting for treasure for years, but it was a \u00a34 bet at a Betfred branch in County&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}