Enough To Bridge New York And Sydney
The printing presses were running 24 hours a day for three whole months. It used a hundred railroad cars of paper to make five hundred million game pieces. If you laid down every single paper ticket from one end to another, it would cover the distance between New York and Sydney. That is nearly two tickets for all the Americans in the world. Jacobson kept an eye on the technicians as they applied the “INSTANT WINNER!” stamp to the game pieces and added random watermarks to prevent forgery. The winning pieces were stored in a vault with a dual-entry combination lock and coded keypads. Jacobson was the one who cut out the game pieces and put them inside the envelopes. On top of that, he would seal the corners with a tamperproof sticker and put them in a secret vest that he himself invented.
How He Beat The System
On top of that, Jacobson himself delivered the big winning pieces. He would fly from one factory to another to deliver them to the packaging plants of the fast-food chain. He apparently came across the materials unintentionally. The Daily Beast said that a supplier accidentally sent him a package full of the metallic tamperproof seals instead! Since he knew everything about the system, he found out how to steal several pieces. A couple of sources say that he was inspired by the prediction of a psycho, who said that he was going to get a huge bonus. Before he arrived at the packaging plants, he would go to the airport bathrooms, take out the original seal on the envelope, swap out the winning pieces for normal ones, and leave a new seal on the envelope! The plan was not as foolproof as McDonald’s thought.