Police: Lotto winner leaves behind $500 voucher at turnpike plaza
Posted: June 16, 2015 - 3:30am

BEDFORD (AP) — Police say a man accidentally left a Pennsylvania Turnpike plaza without claiming a $500 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket, only to have another man claim the winnings.

Troopers from the Bedford barracks say the York man accidentally left the voucher displayed on a machine at the South Midway Service Plaza on Friday morning.

The man had scanned the ticket to verify his winnings, but didn't want to take a paper voucher — though he left with his winning information still displayed on the lottery machine.

That's when another man walked up, claimed the winnings, and used them to buy $78 worth of tickets and the other $422 in a money order.