Italian rubbish collectors help woman recover €1m lottery ticket from bin
Waste workers in Italy spent two days searching through rubbish to recover a winning lottery ticket a woman had mistakenly thrown away.
An Italian lottery player's winning ticket worth €1 million was retrieved by refuse workers after she discarded it by mistake. The woman had checked the ticket at her local store and was told it was non-payable, so she threw it in the bin. The waste collectors spent two days searching through rubbish to recover the valuable ticket.
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Rubbish collectors help woman in Italy find $2m lottery ticket
The ticket was binned after the punter checked the docket at her local store and was told it was "non-payable".
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Waste workers help recover winner’s almost $2m binned lottery ticket in Italy
An Italian lottery player’s €1 million prize has been saved by refuse workers who spent two days searching through rubbish for a winning ticket thrown away by mistake.