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Wash-day blues
Nat Patel, owner of Ambleside newsagent in Worcester
A woman claims that she bought a winning lottery ticket but accidentally washed it when she left it in a pair of jeans. The ticket now has the winning numbers but not the date, bar code or serial number. Camelot has to decide if it believes her story.
History is full of cases of lottery near-misses. In 2013 Erick Onyango and Salvatore Cambria looked up the numbers on the New Jersey Lottery Commission website and thought they had lost – so they threw their ticket in the bin. Only later did they discover that the Commission hadn’t yet updated the page. They had binned $1 million. And Martyn and Kay Tott, who threw away their UK lottery ticket in 2001, could do nothing to melt the judges’ heart. They “lost” over £3 million.
Despite the good causes the lottery supports, for most participants it is not the taking part that counts. Only the winning really matters. If the story is true about the spin cycle, the nation will be willing Camelot to find in the woman’s favour. Most of us have made plans for what we would do if we won the lottery, but what would we do if we won yet lost the ticket? Go mad, probably.
Wash-day blues
Nat Patel, owner of Ambleside newsagent in Worcester
A woman claims that she bought a winning lottery ticket but accidentally washed it when she left it in a pair of jeans. The ticket now has the winning numbers but not the date, bar code or serial number. Camelot has to decide if it believes her story.
History is full of cases of lottery near-misses. In 2013 Erick Onyango and Salvatore Cambria looked up the numbers on the New Jersey Lottery Commission website and thought they had lost – so they threw their ticket in the bin. Only later did they discover that the Commission hadn’t yet updated the page. They had binned $1 million. And Martyn and Kay Tott, who threw away their UK lottery ticket in 2001, could do nothing to melt the judges’ heart. They “lost” over £3 million.
Despite the good causes the lottery supports, for most participants it is not the taking part that counts. Only the winning really matters. If the story is true about the spin cycle, the nation will be willing Camelot to find in the woman’s favour. Most of us have made plans for what we would do if we won the lottery, but what would we do if we won yet lost the ticket? Go mad, probably.
Wash-day blues