sws4420
06-10-2009, 12:23 PM
Leave off the last "s" for stupidity.
An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress stuffed with $1 million inside -- setting off a frantic search today through piles of garbage at a number of landfills.
The woman told The Associated Press that she bought her mother a new mattress as a surprise gift on Monday, then threw out the old one.
The following 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 on a desperate search for the mattress, but it had already been hauled away by garbage collectors. Searches at three different nearby landfills turned up nothing.
The woman said the money was in US dollars and Israeli shekels.
She wouldn't say how she acquired the large sum.
"It was all my money in the world," she said.
The woman said the money had been stashed away in the mattress because she had had "traumatic experiences with banks" in the past.
She would not elaborate.
She said she is trying to remain hopeful the money would be recovered, but fears someone may have already found it.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06102009/news/worldnews/israeli_woman_throws_out_mattress_with_1_173555.ht m
An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress stuffed with $1 million inside -- setting off a frantic search today through piles of garbage at a number of landfills.
The woman told The Associated Press that she bought her mother a new mattress as a surprise gift on Monday, then threw out the old one.
The following 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 on a desperate search for the mattress, but it had already been hauled away by garbage collectors. Searches at three different nearby landfills turned up nothing.
The woman said the money was in US dollars and Israeli shekels.
She wouldn't say how she acquired the large sum.
"It was all my money in the world," she said.
The woman said the money had been stashed away in the mattress because she had had "traumatic experiences with banks" in the past.
She would not elaborate.
She said she is trying to remain hopeful the money would be recovered, but fears someone may have already found it.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06102009/news/worldnews/israeli_woman_throws_out_mattress_with_1_173555.ht m