An expensive meal

PostAn expensive meal by **Pell** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:09 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8539560.stm

A Ryanair passenger who became enraged when he was told he could not claim a scratchcard prize on his flight ate his winning ticket.

The man was flying from Poland to the East Midlands on a Ryanair flight when he won 10,000 euros (£8,765) on a scratchcard he had purchased on board.

Ryanair confirmed he ate his ticket on 26 February after cabin staff refused to pay him the winnings immediately.

The airline said it could not reveal the winner's identity.

Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamara said the cabin crew and some passengers urged the man not to eat the ticket, but he stood up and ate it anyway.

Charity windfall

He said it appears the passenger acted out of frustration and anger.

Mr McNamara explained that all winners must be verified before the cash prizes are handed out.

He said the airline crew did not have the cash "kicking around the aircraft" and in any case the prize had to be collected directly from the scratchcard company.

"In the last two years Ryanair's scratchcards have given away 10 cars, more than €300,000 in cash prizes and more than 100,000 flight vouchers," he said.

Since the prize will now go unclaimed, the money will be donated to charity, he added.

The winning charity will be chosen from a list of five charities in a web vote.

Seriously, what a twat.

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Preezy** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:10 pm

Mental. Just plain old-fashioned crazy :fp:

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Baron Zemo** » Sat Feb 27, 2010 12:13 pm

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Jax** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:52 pm

WHAT THE F :lol:

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Balloon Sod** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:55 pm

I'm picturing the man as fat Alan Partridge.

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Sirus** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:04 pm

Guess he put his money where his mouth is.

Sorry. :fp:

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Preezy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:05 pm

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Lime** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:16 pm

You know what, that joke was worth the wait!

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Rax** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:26 am

Theyre gonna give the money to charity instead and you can vote on who its goes to!

Click here!

I like the choice of charities. :lol:

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Preezy** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:28 am

I have no interest in charities, there's just nothing in it for me :roll:

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Baron Zemo** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:38 am

A Gamblers Charity

Isn't that just adding fuel to the fire?

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Psychic** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:53 am

I guess he thought it was a fly-chew...

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Knoyleo** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 9:51 am

An Eating Disorder Charity

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Ironhide** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:12 pm

An Anger Management Charity

PostRe: An expensive meal by **SchminkyPinky** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:13 pm

He probably needed the money to go to the toilet.

PostRe: An expensive meal by **JiggerJay** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:19 pm

What sort of twat expects a £10,000 prize on an airplane! I would have guarded it with my life!

Voted for the eating disorder one

PostRe: An expensive meal by **Henke** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:50 pm

SchminkyPinky wrote:He probably needed the money to go to the toilet.

I laughed so strawberry floating hard at this. :lol:

PostRe: An expensive meal by **SEP** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:00 pm

JiggerJay wrote:What sort of twat expects a £10,000 prize on an airplane!

Presumably the same kind of twat that would eat a winning lottery ticket.

An expensive meal

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