
Oh my goodness, I can only imagine how frantic this woman must be feeling but who in their right mind would keep their LIFE savings in an old mattress? People, there ARE banks and they're quite secure!
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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. 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... |
You have to remember that some of these people lived through the depression era where your money was not safe in the banks. My grand mother was the same way. SHe did not put a single dime in a bank but kept it all hidden about in her house. The places where we found money was interesting.