A waste collection company in Italy came to the assistance of a Bitonto resident who mistakenly threw away a lottery ticket worth $1.15 million. File Photo by Sebastiao Moreira/EPA
Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A waste collection company in Italy came to the assistance of a Bitonto resident who mistakenly threw away a lottery ticket worth $1.15 million.
Roberto Nicola Toscano, director of waste collection company Sanb, said the resident had bought a MillionDay ticket for the July 31 drawing with their usual set of numbers: 2-4-8-10-51.
The person had scanned the ticket at a store and received a message that the ticket was "non-payable," leading them to toss it in the trash.
Toscano said the person only later discovered that their numbers had come up in the drawing, and the "non-payable" message referred to the fact that the prize was too large to collect at the store.
