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A California man steals $5 million, spends $1 million on a cellphone game

$5 million.

Everyone has thought about it — what to do with such a sudden windfall of money. From purchasing a luxurious yacht to relieving one’s family of financial strain for many years to come, the possibilities are endless.

The amount of money he stole would change most people’s lives, and it seemed to have changed Co’s as well. Among the things he spent it on are the expected — luxury cars, season tickets to see the Sacramento Kings and the San Francisco 49ers.

Easily the strangest expenditure was money spent on playing “Game of War,” a smartphone game that is considered a freemium app — referring to a game that costs nothing to acquire but requires monetary purchases in-game. In other words, if you want better weaponry or some such within the game, you can purchase it.

The average paying player spent $550 on the game in 2015, according to VentureBeat.

Co spent approximately $1 million.

Just wow.... how do you even spend that much on a mobile game?