Train commuters last Friday got a taste of how it felt to win the jackpot at Nagoya’s Naka-ku train station when the automatic ticket vending machine gave them more change than they were entitled.

Bills of 10,000 yen and 5,000 yen notes were mistakenly supplied into a ticket vending machine instead of 1,000 yen bills as change. The error cost the station 252,000 yen.

The error was caused by a 57-year-old assistant stationmaster who was in charge of supplying the machine with bills.

After receiving a report from the city, local police are looking into whether they can press misappropriation charges against passengers who made off with the larger bills as change.

The city will examine how it will punish the assistant stationmaster and how it will reimburse the funds.

Source: Mainichi JP

I wonder if anyone just decided to skip work for that day and keep buying tickets from the machine. He/she would have made off with losta winnings. =P