{"id":7059,"date":"2014-12-03T16:21:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/03\/teen-wins-big\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:21:05","slug":"teen-wins-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/03\/teen-wins-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Wins Big!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>A Bradford Teenager has bagged \u00a340,000 from a car competition<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" width=\"467\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"184\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/Gallery\/BOTB-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nA Bradford teenager got the surprise of a lifetime after winning a \u00a340,000 car and \u00a310,000 in cash that he won in an online competition. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSaif Ali Aurangzeb was shocked when he was presented with a Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG and a briefcase of cash by representatives of Best of the Best. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 19-year-old had been told he had won a Christmas hamper, but could barely speak, saying \u201cyou&#8217;re having a laugh\u201d, when Best of the Best founder and managing director Will Hindmarch paid him a visit at work to inform him that he had won.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI am over the moon,\u201d said Saif. \u201cI thought it was going to be a Christmas hamper!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cAnd I forgot about the cash. I cannot believe it &#8211; I am buzzing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nA student at the University of Bradford, Saif also helps out in the family food store. He entered the competition to win the car after buying a \u00a35 ticket at www.botb.com and taking a guess at a spot the ball picture. He claimed he had been entering continuously for a year, spending about \u00a3150 in total and each time trying to win the A45 car.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMr Hindmarch and colleague Ben Hughes picked up the Mercedes from a dealership on Thornton Road, before handing it to Saif. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cIt is great, it is fun,\u201d said Mr Hindmarch, who also revealed that Saif will receive a year&#8217;s insurance and servicing for free. \u201cWe are making people&#8217;s dreams come true. It is quite life-changing for some people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBest of the Best was founded 15 years ago and there have been 243 winners of top-of-the-range cars in that time \u2013 amounting to more than \u00a315million in cars given away.&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bradford Teenager has bagged \u00a340,000 from a car competition &#13; A Bradford teenager got the surprise of a lifetime after winning a \u00a340,000 car and \u00a310,000 in cash that he won in an online competition. &#13; Saif Ali Aurangzeb was shocked when he was presented with a Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG and a briefcase of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}