Panicked couple desperately search for winning lottery ticket after they threw their $800,000 winner in the bin
- A NSW couple accidentally tossed out their $800,000 winning lottery ticket
- It took a while for them to find the ticket which had been tossed days earlier
- The couple, were one of five division one winners, will pay off their mortgage
A couple had to desperately search the bin for an $800,000 winning lotto ticket after accidentally tossing it out.
The couple, from the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, were one of five division one winners.
It was a mad scramble when they realised they had accidentally tossed the in the rubbish - and it was collection day.
A couple had to desperately search the bin for $800,000 winning lotto ticket after accidentally tossing it out
'First thing this morning I checked our email and got the Lotto results. I saw the $800,000, but thought that can't be right, so went and double checked the numbers,' said the husband, who chose to remain anonymous.
'We then realised we had thrown the ticket out a few days ago so we went through the bin to find the ticket. It took a while, but we found it. Just as well as it's almost garbage day.
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'It's been an eventful morning. As you can imagine, I couldn't eat breakfast after all that.'
They will use the money to pay off their mortgage, he said.
The 12-game entry was purchased at the Wentworth Falls Newsagency.
The winning numbers in Monday and Wednesday Lotto draw 3811 on Wednesday 24 October 2018 were 6, 24, 12, 22, 11 and 5, while the supplementary numbers were 27 and 28.
It was a mad scramble for a couple when they realised they had accidentally tossed their winning ticket in the rubbish - and it was collection day
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