{"id":76466,"date":"2026-08-06T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/italy-bin-crew-recovers-1-15m-lottery-ticket-thrown-out-over-one-word\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:48:11","slug":"italy-bin-crew-recovers-1-15m-lottery-ticket-thrown-out-over-one-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/italy-bin-crew-recovers-1-15m-lottery-ticket-thrown-out-over-one-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Bin Crew Recovers $1.15M Lottery Ticket Thrown Out Over One Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">A Bitonto player matched 2, 4, 8, 10 and 51 for $1.15M, then threw the ticket out.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">SANB blocked the compactor and sifted six metric tons of waste at an authorized plant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">An operator found the ticket intact at 5:30 a.m. on Aug. 4, four days after the draw.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>A Two-Word Receipt Message and a Blocked Compactor<\/h2>\n<p>The numbers were 2, 4, 8, 10 and 51, drawn at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, July 31. A player in Bitonto, in the province of Bari, had entered them for years because they were tied to someone close, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ansa.it\/puglia\/notizie\/2026\/08\/04\/biglietto-della-lotteria-milionario-perso-nel-barese-e-ritrovato-tra-i-rifiuti_a70b2df8-b236-4065-a3fd-f4b61225e08c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ANSA reported<\/a>. Roberto Toscano, sole director of public waste company SANB, announced the recovery on social media under the heading \u201cfortuna non olet,\u201d a play on the Latin tag that money does not smell.<\/p>\n<p>The receipt read \u201cnon esigibile\u201d \u2013 not collectible \u2013 which signals only that a prize is too large for the retailer to pay out. The player read it as a losing slip and put it in the dry residual waste.<\/p>\n<p>SANB was told on Sunday, Aug. 2. The company identified the compactor the bag had gone into, blocked the load from reaching landfill, obtained clearances, and moved the waste to an authorized plant on the morning of Aug. 4. Operators sifted it there because SANB\u2019s own facility could not take the load on contamination grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The ticket turned up at 5:30 a.m. \u201cIt was in a bag with a hole in it, along with other ruined slips,\u201d Toscano said. \u201cThis one was among the few untouched.\u201d He told ANSA the episode had something miraculous about it, describing the player as extremely lucky, then extremely unlucky, then extremely lucky again.<\/p>\n<p>MillionDay, run under Italy\u2019s Lotto concession, draws five numbers from one to 55 twice a day, at 1 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., on a \u20ac1 stake with a \u20ac1 million top prize. That headline figure is already net: the rules set the five-number payout at 1,086,956.52 times the stake, and Italy\u2019s 8% withholding brings it to exactly a million. It\u2019s one of many recent near-misses, including an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/queensland-mother-discovered-a-1-1-million-lottery-win-on-facebook-49201\/\">Australian couple who learned of a $1.1 million win on Facebook<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/that-100000-lottery-ticket-in-indiana-came-down-to-one-printing-detail-49201\/\">Indiana printing error<\/a> that made a $20-winning ticket look like a $100,000 payout.<\/p>\n<p>Toscano said he touched the ticket on the way past, in case the luck carried. Afterwards the crew went for coffee and bought a scratch card. It paid $58 (\u20ac50).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/igaming\/italy-bin-crew-recovers-1-15m-lottery-ticket-thrown-out-over-one-word\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways A Bitonto player matched 2, 4, 8, 10 and 51 for $1.15M, then threw the ticket out. SANB blocked the compactor and sifted six metric tons of waste at an authorized plant. An operator found the ticket intact at 5:30 a.m. on Aug. 4, four days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3947362403,"featured_media":76467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3947362403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}