When Mary Elliott did find the ticket, some barcode-blocking coffee stains added another potential hurdle to claiming her prize.
A Buckingham County, Virginia woman is lucky she realized a potentially big mistake before trash day.game she'd played were her numbers -- important birthdates she'd chosen to play, she went running for the trash can to dig out the ticket that had been thrown away.
She found the winning ticket, but was almost stymied again when coffee stains prevented the barcode from being read when she tried to verify that she'd really won.Stay informed about local news and weather in Southern California. Get the NBC LA app for
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