Student throws away £0.5 million!

Mr Newman, a PHD student, has admitted to throwing away a MacDonald's Monopoly Ticket worth £500,000. When collecting a take-away with his girlfriend from their local MacDonald's store, he received the Monopoly Mayfair Ticket.

Not a player of the game, Nr Newmam simply stuck the sticker onto his steering wheel and then later threw it away. Two weeks later, he visited the fast food chain restaurant again, and this time collected the Park Lane Ticket. Finally his girlfriend twigged! Checking the rules of the game she realised that if only they'd kept that Mayfair Ticket they could have pocketed a tidy £0.5 million.

The disappointed student told The Sun newspaper that when they were given the original ticket for Mayfair in the Sheffield branch of MacDonalds, they were not aware of the rules of the game. Mr Newman told the paper; 'If I'd have been playing the game, I'd have known I'd struck gold.'

How frustrating!!

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