This Hummer H3 is built from $35,000 in losing lottery tickets. No sheet metal here, folks. The piece is by Brooklyn-based artists Adam Eckstrom and Lauren Was and it's entitled Ghost of a Dream. The tickets came from local bodegas, where they were discarded by unlucky patrons. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

A 3.2 x 2.1 meter (10 x 7 ft) work of Astro Boy pixel art made from 138,000 recycled Tokyo Metro tickets. See also: Mona Lisa from recycled train tickets. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An animatronic Rocky Mountain goat installed at a Japanese boat-racing enterprise eats 500 losing tickets a day on average, preventing customers from throwing tickets on the floor and creating less of a mess to clean up. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

Unpaid parking tickets proved fatal for a terminally ill New York man who died after callous cops locked him up for four days for a minor traffic offense, a lawsuit claims. picked by suebe 10 months ago

After the Daily News wrote about a disabled veteran's dream of seeing the Yanks in the World Series, two dozen readers offered him either tickets or cash toward buying one. picked by suebe 1 month ago

The producers of an off-Broadway show are giving away free tickets to anyone who can demonstrate his or her chastity.

Hmmm, maybe "sex" isn't the best category for this story :P picked by Nicky666 2 years ago

New York City agencies issued 9,955,441 parking tickets from July 2007 to June 2008. Here is an interactive map of them. picked by bernardblack 12 months ago

A Brunswick used car dealer is offering to send prostitutes who walk along his street bus tickets to Vegas in hopes they'll stay, too. picked by kakana 6 months ago

The winning tickets are about to expire. picked by hisidea 2 years ago

After a habitual speeder painted her unusual message on the rear windshield of her car, she has not received any more speeding tickets from cops. picked by Doggylives 2 months ago

The Plugg are giving away a pair of tickets to see Sonic Youth perform Daydream Nation. picked by rustycat 3 years ago

He woke up in the hospital after colliding with a car. Then he found two tickets on his chest. picked by speedracer 3 years ago

Canoeist Dennis Bohrn and his companions were stunned when they saw a woman jump off the Perrine Bridge, her body landing near them in the Snake River. Many in the group were crying by the time they managed to reach the woman and paddle her body to shore. So Bohrn was shocked when an officer walked up and instead of thanking or comforting the group last Sunday, wrote out a couple of $85 tickets fo... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Everyone's a winner after a direct-mail marketing company hired by a local car dealership mistakenly sent out 50,000 scratch-off tickets to residents _ all of them declaring the ticket-holder the $1,000 grand prize winner. Just one of the tickets was supposed to be the grand prize winner. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

It would be hard to find a more loyal fan of the Washington Redskins than real estate agent Pat Hill. She's had season tickets since the early 1960s, when her daughter danced in the halftime shows at the old D.C. Stadium, before it was renamed in memory of Robert F. Kennedy. picked by nateebiinature 3 months ago

Swiss twins Harold and Michael Lengen have found the perfect loophole to get out of paying parking tickets:
Police say that in the last year alone the twins have collected 29 parking tickets on a car which they both share. But every time they refuse to pay them and tell courts that the other was driving. picked by bingo 7 months ago

An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: "My daddy died this year in Iraq." picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

A minivan covered with parking tickets and debris had been sitting on the street long enough that a city marshal was finally dispatched to have the 2000 Chevrolet Ventura towed on Wednesday morning. But a grisly surprise was waiting inside.

*I used to live a few blocks from there* picked by suebe 6 months ago

Think that you’ve been hard done to by the parking authorities? Well, wait until you have read these extraordinary tales… picked by topofall 2 years ago

Tigers ticket snafu. Check your tickets. picked by zadscmc 3 years ago