A lottery player in southern Italy mistakenly throws away a winning ticket worth €1 million, prompting a lengthy search by waste management workers, according to multiple reports. The woman realises she has binned the ticket only after her family tells her that the numbers she has played for years appear in the winning draw. She then contacts the local waste management company and asks for help retrieving it. Reportedly, the ticket is “miraculously still in one piece” after workers comb through piles of rubbish during their operations and on their trucks to locate the discarded stub. Sources describe the effort as involving sifting through large amounts of garbage and taking hours, with some accounts stating the search continues for more than a day. One report adds that the mistake may stem from the player discarding the ticket after a self-service terminal at a local tobacconist shows a message indicating it is “not payable.” In the end, the waste management company recovers the ticket, returning it to its owner.
Italy sanitation workers recover €1 million lottery ticket thrown away by winner
A lottery player in southern Italy mistakenly throws away a winning ticket worth €1 million, prompting a lengthy search by waste management workers, according to multiple reports. The woman realises s...
- A €1 million lottery ticket is recovered from trash in southern Italy after the winner accidentally throws it away.
- The woman realises the mistake after checking winning numbers and is prompted by family to act.
- Local waste management or sanitation workers search through rubbish, including piles loaded onto trucks, to find the ticket.
- Reports say the ticket remains in one piece when it is found.
- The incident is described as taking hours, with some accounts saying it lasts more than a day.
A lottery player in Italy threw out the winning ticket at a local tobacconist after a self-service lottery terminal displayed the message "not payable."
7 hours agoThe player only realised he binned the life-changing ticket after family told him the numbers he played for years had been drawn.
9 hours agoThe ticket was "miraculously still in one piece" after workers searched through piles of trash for more than a day to recover the €1 million (US$1,152,800) prize.
23 hours agoWorkers at a sorting facility in Italy have spent hours sifting through rubbish bags in a search for a discarded million euro lottery ticket.
1 day agoA €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...
1 day agoA woman who won €1 million mistakenly threw her lottery ticket in a trash bin in Bitonto, southern Italy — prompting her local sanitation company to launch an hourslong search.
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