Trash collectors help woman find intact €1 million lottery ticket in Italy

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M100M — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:14:01 GMT

I highly doubt that. Majority of her gender are very stingy with giving anyone large amount of money regardless of whom that person is, but expect it if it's vice versa. I'm not gender biased, It's just my observation, They can birth, give their love, time, but never large amount of money voluntarily.

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Tony Numbers — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:21:30 GMT

Escusi Madame: we sercha. and sercha. and we no finda de. ticketa.. Six months later sanitation man claims one million lira lottery

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mypiemaster — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:57:47 GMT

People not showing enough respect to their lottery tickets. I hope she remembers to give the garbage guys a big fat tip.

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Tony Numbers — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:54:59 GMT

Aside from the cost she agreed to pay for recovery of the ticket, I hope she gives a generous reward to the guy who found her ticket.

Trash collectors help woman find intact €1 million lottery ticket in Italy

Lottery Post — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:19:06 GMT

Waste employees dig through six metric tons of garbage for two days

By Kate Northrop

An Italian woman who accidentally threw out a winning 1 million (US$1,155,580) winning lottery ticket is probably one of the luckiest players alive after trash collectors were able to sift through tons of garbage and find the discarded slip of paper still intact.

Waste employees gave one Italian woman a second chance at becoming a millionaire after they graciously dug through mounds of trash to find