Filed in archive Gambling General by jo on October 14, 2005

Next time you see someone rummaging through a trash can, just think of Edward St John who picked up a scratch card from the trash - worth $1 million.

And apparantly, thats what he does daily - he'd picked up one worth $1000 earlier in the year.

But all is not plain sailing. Someone is claiming the winning ticket from a stack of 250 they had bought on the day in question.

Thankfully, the State Lottery Commission says 'finders keepers'. And so it should be

Article: Man Picks $1 Million Lottery Ticket Out Of Trash

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