Scratch, win, run: Italian cops seek man who snatched ticket
September 5, 2021
ROME (AP) — Italian police on Saturday were hunting for a Naples tobacco shop owner who allegedly ran off on a motor scooter with a customer's "scratch and win" game card, which had clinched the top prize of 500,000 euros ($580,000), Italian news reports said.
A day earlier, a woman in her late 60s had purchased two of the highly popular game cards at her local shop in a working-class neighborhood of the southern port city. The first card was a loser. But when she scratched the second one, she saw to her amazement it was the big win, Italian media said.
The customer handed it to a shop em...
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