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FedEx Delivered $20K of Lotto Scratch Cards To A Random Woman
New Yorkers Treated To ‘Reverse Manhattanhenge' Sunrise
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By Ben Hooper
Nov. 29 (UPI) -- New Yorkers were treated to an annual spectacle Wednesday morning known as "reverse Manhattanhenge," when the sunrise aligns with the bor- ough's street grid.
The reverse Manhattanhenge began at 6:59 a.m. Wednesday and lasted for several minutes as the sun rose over the
city.
The event is known as "reverse Manhattanhenge," as a similar event, known as Manhattanhenge, takes place in the summer when the sunset aligns with the street grid.
Reverse Manhattanhenge happens twice a year, with the next one projected to take place on the morning of Jan. 11.
By Joshua Zitser
FedEx mistakenly delivered $20,000 worth of lottery scratch cards to an unsuspecting woman in Massachusetts, though she wouldn't have been able to cash in on any poten- tial winnings.
Danielle Alexandrov was opening pack- ages at her office in East Falmouth when she came across a "very heavy" box, she told local news outlet WCVB.
"I open it up and it's a box of scratch tickets," she said. "And I'm thinking, 'Is this a joke?' until
I look at the receipt and its value is $20,000 worth of scratch tickets."
According to WCVB, the scratch cards were meant to be sent to the near- by Kenyon's Market, a liquor store that sells lottery tickets, but somehow ended up at Alexandrov's workplace.
She decided to return the box, calling it the "right" thing to do, but she said she was troubled by the possibilities of how the scratch tickets could have changed her life.
She told WCVB: "I played the tape
out through my mind. What would happen if I kept these? Would I be able to sleep at night? Those kinds of things — and I was like, 'No, the right thing to do is to go return it.'"
It turns out that even if Alexandrov had kept the scratch cards, they would have been worth- less unless they had been deliv- ered and author- ized by a licensed lottery retailer.
"If someone tried to take one of these tickets, if it was a winning ticket, brought it to a retail loca- tion, there would be a message that would flag it and they'd be unable to cash the ticket," Christian Teja, who works for the Massachusetts Lottery, told WCVB.
FedEx did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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