An Elmira man received an unintentionally harsh message when he scratched off an instant New York state lottery ticket.

The ticket read "You Elmira trash."

In this particular game, each ticket contains three words, a person, place and thing. The ticket 22-year-old Nick Lynough scratched off had "you" for the person, "Elmira" for the place and "trash" for the thing.

The state Gaming Commission says the harsh message was completely unintentional, according to The Star Gazette.

"The New York Gaming Commission has confirmed that the unfortunate arrangement of words on this individual ticket was completely random, coincidental and -- most importantly -- unintentional," the commission's statement says.

The odds of that happening? One in 900 million according to the gaming commission. But it won't happen again as the word 'trash' will be removed from future games.

Lynough isn't buying the commission's response.

"I personally don't think it was random," he told The Star Gazette. "If it was random, it would have showed up somewhere else. It wouldn't have shown up in Elmira."

Lynough, who is a Corning Community College student, bought the ticket from a Homestead Inn in Elmira several weeks ago. The ticket seemed too coincidental to be real, Lynough thought.

"Well when I looked at it, I thought it was a fake ticket," Lynough told WETM. "Most of my friends used to play some of those old fake ticket tricks on me and that's what I first thought it was. Unfortunately it was a loser and...I was offended by it."

The ticket was first brought to the attention of the authorities after a bar owner saw the ticket and reported it as possibly being fraudulent. The Chemung County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the ticket was real.