Couple's rush to find binned lotto ticket before garbage truck arrives
A couple have revealed their panic after realising they had won Lotto, but had thrown the ticket in the bin with the garbage truck on the way.
The couple, from the Blue Mountains in NSW, had one of the five division one winning entries in Wednesday’s draw, taking home $800,000.
But they revealed they had accidentally chucked out the ticket close to garbage collection day and madly rushed to retrieve it.
“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,” the husband, who chose to remain anonymous, said.
“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.
“It’s been an eventful morning. As you can imagine, I couldn’t eat breakfast after all that.”
While their bank account was about to balloon by $800,000, the man said they didn’t plan on making any drastic changes to their lives and will use the money to pay off their mortgage.
“I’ll still be doing the washing up,” he joked.
“The first thing we thought of was the kids and how we can use it to help then. We’ll all pay off our mortgage as well, which will be fantastic.”
The couple purchased their marked 12-game entry at 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.
