Plane Passenger eats scratch card

[TheLastOne36]

An airline passenger ate his £8,930 winning scratch card after he was told he could not claim the money immediately, it has emerged. Skip related content
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The unnamed man was flying with Ryanair from Krakow in Poland to East Midlands Airport when he won 10,000 euros with the scratch card.

Crew on board the flight confirmed he had won the prize but told the passenger he would have to collect the jackpot directly from the company that runs the competition as it was such a large sum.

Ryanair said the man then became frustrated and started to eat his winning ticket, ruling out any chance he had of claiming the prize money which will now be donated to charity.

Stephen McNamara, a spokesman for the airline, said: "Passengers have always been delighted to claim their large cash prizes after returning home.

"Unfortunately our latest winner felt that we should have his 10,000 euros prize kicking around on the aircraft."

The airline is now asking passengers to vote online to decide where the money should go, after the win on Thursday. Voting will take place until March 5 at www.ryanair.com.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100227/tuk-plane-passenger-eats-scratch-card-6323e80.html

More Polish Shenanigans.

 

[really]

Was posted in the news of the weird.

 

[Tekee]

He doesn't need that 10,000$.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

He should get locked up somewhere. That guy's clearly unstable and bound to do something dangerous in the future.

 

[Tekee]

oh wouldn't you like to lock up a pole german?

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Only the crazy ones.

 

[nonconformist]

To be fair, it had a higher nutritional value than Ryanair food.

 

[Camikaze]

To be fair, there comes a time when you have to let go of your materialistic desires and stand up for what is right! And air stewardesses not carrying around large wads of cash is a serious issue that needs standing up to.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Was posted in the news of the weird.

Slow news day huh?

 

[Perfection]

Update:

http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/ryanair-to-donate-10000-euro-scratch-card-prize-to-children-s-charity

It went to the Children's charity. Where's your sense of humor Ireland.

 

[Tee Kay]

I'm a charity

 

[JohnRM]

another 'wow' moment for me

 

[Bugfatty300]

And he wasn't tasered and detained?

Now that is abnormal.

 

[sirdanilot]

What's so abnormal about eating a piece of paper? I do it all the time... cleans up the stomach.