Woman mistakenly junks $1 million mattress

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Woman mistakenly junks $1 million mattress
Israeli frantically searches landfill sites after tossing out mom’s life savings


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.

before driving away in his Ferrari.

That's exactly what I was thinking! One of the garbage men, decided that instead of loading
the mattress into the garbage truck, he would keep it. He had no idea there was $$$ inside, but
now he does.

This could be a great short story or a play.

My kids watch Spongebob, and this WAS an episode!!

Didn't someone throw away Mr. Krabs mattress that was stuffed full of money?

LOL! :rofl:

How did Spongebob resolve it? Maybe someone can send these people the tape, as a learning tool.

This made my day...

You know your life sucks when certain aspects of it play out in a Spongebob episode!

The premise of the movie is that one of 12 chairs in a dining set is stuffed full of jewels. Unfortunately the Soviets have split up the set and it becomes a quest for several characters to find the jewel-filled chair first. Good movie.

Anyhow, I hope she finds the mattress.