What an utter knob end!

philoldsmobile · February 27, 2010, 11:15:32 AM

An airline passenger ate his £8,930 winning scratch card after he was told he could not claim the money immediately, it has emerged.

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 http://www.ryanair.com.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.ryanair.com.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100227/tuk-plane-passenger-eats-scratch-card-6323e80.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100227/tuk-plane-passenger-eats-scratch-card-6323e80.html

art b · February 27, 2010, 11:42:52 AM

well that showed em.....

Cunning Plan · February 27, 2010, 11:51:43 AM

Quoting: art b

well that showed em.....

Why did you do it?? Couldn't you have had a packet of crisps Art??

Andy · February 27, 2010, 12:12:58 PM

Another fantastic bit of PR for Ryanair though!

art b · February 27, 2010, 01:59:34 PM

Quoting: Cunning Plan

Why did you do it?? Couldn't you have had a packet of crisps Art??

meh ....i had no money for crisps....

Fieldy · February 28, 2010, 11:19:28 AM

Quoting: Andy

Another fantastic bit of PR for Ryanair though!

I call B.S on the story all together. this is RyanAirs way of advertising and also showing their scratch cards can be winners

philoldsmobile · February 28, 2010, 12:12:26 PM

its pukka, its on the BBC website, too.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8539560.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8539560.stm

-edit- and the independent.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/airline-passenger-eats-pound8930-winning-scratch-card-1912607.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/airline-passenger-eats-pound8930-winning-scratch-card-1912607.html

Fieldy · March 01, 2010, 11:21:17 AM

dude, these papers and news productions can't verify if something happened or not, they just buy the story for a price.