Passenger eats €10,000 scratchcard
27.02.10
A passenger on a Ryanair flight from Krakow to East Midlands Airport ate a winning scratchcard worth €10,000. The passenger won the prize having purchased the scratchcard on a flight on Thursday, but was so angry that he would not be given the cash mid-flight that he chewed and swallowed the winning ticket. The budget airline has offered to donate the cash - which cannot now be claimed - to charity, with passengers given the chance to vote on where it should go.
Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said: ‘In the last two years our scratch cards have given away 10 cars, over €300,000 in cash prizes and over 100,000 flight vouchers. Passengers have always been delighted to claim large prizes after returning home. Unfortunately our latest winner felt that we should have his €10,000 prize kicking around on the aircraft.’
Flight crew apparently tried to stop the passenger eating the card, but he ripped it up and swallowed it. People can vote on whether the €10,000 should go to an anger management charity, an eating disorder charity, a gamblers' charity, a disruptive children's charity or a mental health charity by visiting www.ryanair.com.
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