Waste workers help find binned €1m lottery ticket in Italy
It sparked a two-day search through a "mountain of waste" which had been collected by a bin lorry, the head of the refuse company said, Roberto Nicola Toscano, told Italian news agency Ansa. "This story is nothing short of miraculous," he added.Recounting the story, he said the mix-up happened because the "non-payable" message appears when the prize is too high to be paid out by the shop. When the player returned home, his family reportedly pointed out his favourite numbers - 2, 4, 8, 10, and 51 - had been drawn.
- ▪It sparked a two-day search through a "mountain of waste" which had been collected by a bin lorry, the head of the refuse company said, Roberto Nicola Toscano, told Italian news agency Ansa.
- ▪"This story is nothing short of miraculous," he added.Recounting the story, he said the mix-up happened because the "non-payable" message appears when the prize is too high to be paid out by the shop.
- ▪When the player returned home, his family reportedly pointed out his favourite numbers - 2, 4, 8, 10, and 51 - had been drawn.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 20 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Refuse collectors help Italian woman recover binned €1m lottery ticket — The Guardian — World
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Waste workers help find binned €1m lottery ticket in ItalyImage source, Getty ImagesByAndré Rhoden-PaulPublished7 minutes agoA lottery player who accidentally binned a €1m (£857,158) winning-ticket may be the luckiest man in Italy after refuge workers found the missing slip.The anonymous player disposed of the ticket in a shop in Bitonto, southern Italy, after checking his numbers and being told it was "non-payable".The man only realised he threw away a winning ticket after a relative pointed out the numbers he always played had been drawn. It sparked a two-day search through a "mountain of waste" which had been collected by a bin lorry, the head of the refuse company said, Roberto Nicola Toscano, told Italian news agency Ansa.
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