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Woman mistakenly junks 1 million dollar bed

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updated 9:01 a.m. ET, Wed., June 10, 2009
JERUSALEM - An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress with $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites, Israeli media reported Wednesday.

The woman told Army Radio that she bought her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise on Monday and threw out the old one, only to discover that her mother had hidden her life savings inside. She was identified only as Anat, a resident of Tel Aviv.

When she went to look for the mattress it had already been taken by garbage men, she said. Subsequent searches at three different landfill sites turned up nothing.

The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot published a picture of the woman searching through garbage at a dump in southern Israel.

?Totally desperate?
Yitzhak Borba, the dump manager, told the radio station that his staff was helping the woman, saying she appeared "totally desperate." He said the mattress was hard to find among the 2,500 tons of garbage arriving at the site every day.

He said he increased security at the site to keep would-be treasure hunters at bay.

For her part, Anat said it could be worse. "People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad," she said.
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Anybody care to help me bypass Israeli garbage dump security forces?
 
Wow, what do you think the chances are that the dump people have already gone through, found the money, and divvied it up?
 
$1 million USD.

And someone hit the lottery 😉

Finders keepers.
 
Originally posted by: isekii
1 million bucks has to be pretty heavy to just toss out along with the mattress.
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If it's in large bills, it's not heavy at all.
 
well, was that 1 million dollars in coins or in paper ??

I dont think that it was in coins, cause then grandma would have been long dead because of spondylitis.
well I still think that paper can also cause some back pain or something like that ...
 
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: isekii
1 million bucks has to be pretty heavy to just toss out along with the mattress.
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If it's in large bills, it's not heavy at all.
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100 stacks of 10,000 dollars isn't much and probably weighed under 50 pounds.
 
Originally posted by: jpeyton
Originally posted by: isekii
1 million bucks has to be pretty heavy to just toss out along with the mattress.
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If it's in large bills, it's not heavy at all.
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Guys, she said it was life savings. So may be she saved it in the form of pennies ...
or dimes ...
 
How the hell did the daughter lift a matress with 1 million dollars in it?

A million dollars in $1s weighs a metric ton. If it were all $100 bills, that's just a bit over 22 pounds, but still. Wouldn't you notice 20 freakin pounds difference in a matress?
 
The daughter has to live with the fact that she ruined her mother's retirement. Ouch.

Or maybe she knew about the stash and bought her a new mattress to cover up the fact that she took it and it wasn't thrown out.
 
Originally posted by: Nik
How the hell did the daughter lift a matress with 1 million dollars in it?

A million dollars in $1s weighs a metric ton. If it were all $100 bills, that's just a bit over 22 pounds, but still. Wouldn't you notice 20 freakin pounds difference in a matress?
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20 lbs? Ummm...considering that a queen-sized mattress can weigh upwards of 80lbs, and a king can weigh over 100lbs, probably not.

Who says the entire amount was in cash anyways? Bonds, bank checks, jewelry, etc., can all carry large dollar values with little weight.
 
Originally posted by: Krazy4Real
The daughter has to live with the fact that she ruined her mother's retirement. Ouch.

Or maybe she knew about the stash and bought her a new mattress to cover up the fact that she took it and it wasn't thrown out.
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:Q

This?
 
Originally posted by: Krazy4Real
The daughter has to live with the fact that she ruined her mother's retirement. Ouch.

Or maybe she knew about the stash and bought her a new mattress to cover up the fact that she took it and it wasn't thrown out.
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Here is the answer for most people.

 
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