Lost US$1.15 million lottery ticket dug out of trash by Italian binmen
The winner had discarded the stub, not realising that she had won the big jackpot.
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A €1 million (US$1.15 million) lottery ticket was recovered from the trash in Italy after the frantic winner called on binmen to help her retrieve it, the waste management company said.
The instant win ticket was “miraculously still in one piece” after rubbish workers combed through mounds of trash on their truck, said Roberto Nicola Toscano, the administrator of the SANB company in Italy’s southern Puglia region.
Toscano explained how when the winner went on Sunday to check her ticket at her local shop after the drawing, the machine indicated it was “non-payable”.
That was because smaller retailers can only redeem small wins.
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