Israeli woman mistakenly junks $1 million mattress

Posted 6/10/2009 10:47 AM ET E-mail | Save | Print
By Ian Deitch, Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM — An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress she said had almost $1 million inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites on Wednesday.

The woman told The Associated Press that she bought her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise present on Monday -- and threw out the old one.

The next day, she said, she remembered that she had hidden her life savings inside the old mattress. "I woke up in the morning screaming, when it hit me what happened," said the Tel Aviv woman, who asked not to be identified.

She went to look for the mattress, but it had already been hauled away by garbage collectors, she said. Searches at three different landfill sites turned up nothing.

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Didn't think people actually hid money in their mattresses anymore.

I mean, come on.

I would not be surprised if there is some kind of mental illness behind this story.

in his pants, when he sees the news on the teevee about that old mattress that he brought home.