Woman Junks Mattress /w $1 Million Hidden Inside

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Israeli frantically searches landfill sites after tossing out mom’s life savings

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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.



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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.
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.

 

[Boxer22]

That sucks... One of my friends had something similar happen to him but no where near close to a million dollars. His father had given him Tons and tons of old baseball cards and he had them all in hard plastic covers. He had them in a trash bag in a closet with his suits. His wife seen it one day and trashed it thinking it was garbage. Prior to this happening he showed me some of the cards. All I can remember is him having 15 Nolan Ryan rookie cards (The one with the four players on it), but I know he said the total value of everything was somewhere around 150K..... That would make me sick.

 

[Betallsports]

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

That's some Surprise ! hno:

 

[GoBlue34]

All I can remember is him having 15 Nolan Ryan rookie cards (The one with the four players on it),

Not that it really matters but I have that card and it's 2 players on it.

 

[louisvillekid]

was just reading this on yahoo.
what i found surprising was it said there was armed guards patrolling the dump while they searched for it. i couldn't imagine someone here in the states calling up and saying they did something like that and the national guard gets called in to set up security around a city dump for someone to look for there lost valuables.

 

[PO69]

Not that it really matters but I have that card and it's 2 players on it.

I have several of them as well, and there are 2 players.

The other is Jerry Koosman is I remember correctly

 

[CoolBreeze22]

I sure wouldn't tell anyone that you had a million dollars in the mattress. Until after you had searched for a few weeks. Just search for it on your own. If the mattress was in decent shape there's probably a chance someone came along and picked it up before the garbage man even got there. The horror that lady must have felt when she saw the new mattress is unimaginable.

 

[Boxer22]

Not that it really matters but I have that card and it's 2 players on it.

Thats right. Im sorry. Maybe it was the Robin Yount rookie card with four players on it? I remember him having tons of Nolan Ryan, but I also remember him showing me a multiple amount of the same card with 4 players heads on it.

 

[Boxer22]

I have several of them as well, and there are 2 players.

The other is Jerry Koosman is I remember correctly

How much does that card go for these days?

 

[FullWageredMan]

Well if I found said mattress id be hiding this money for a good five years.

 

[Gravy]

How much does that card go for these days?

Between $600 to $1000 depending on condition and how bad a collector wants it

 

[Boxer22]

Between $600 to $1000 depending on condition and how bad a collector wants it

Thats a cool looking card I might have to pick on of those up.

 

[camy]

I had an old whore of an aunt whose boyfriend at the time was a bookie in London. The guy was a cheapskate and my aunt was a whore you had to spend money on. He used to hide his money by wrapping it up in newspaper and hiding it in the closet. Their apartment was cold and the book was out one night and aunty had had it with the cheapskate so she went looking for something to throw in the fireplace so she could warm up. She opened the closet and found these "lovely bricks of newspaper". Of course she grabbed a few bricks and threw them in the fireplace. She had no problem lighting the first one and was ready to pile another one on when Mr. Bookie arrived. Luckily she mentioned the "lovely bricks of newspaper" otherwise he would not have had enough time to dive into the fireplace and save the second brick. She claimed to not know he was a bookie and blamed him for not telling her! The "bricks" were supposedly 5 and 10 pound notes. Approx. 10,000 worth per brick in the early 1960's. No million but that was a ton of money back then.

 

[BROMOx]

...but I know he said the total value of everything was somewhere around 150K..... That would make me sick.

In other words, worth about $5K - $7K in actual cash. [Man am I sour on the card industry.]

They are only worth what someone will pay.


(Still sucks an awful lot though...)

 

[Boxer22]

In other words, worth about $5K - $7K in actual cash. [Man am I sour on the card industry.]

They are only worth what someone will pay.


(Still sucks an awful lot though...)

So if he had $150K worth of cards and tried to sell them he would only get like $7k in cash? Im not up to date with sports cards, but I find that hard to believe. Im not talking 20,000 cards that add up to $150K. I am talking real good cards (150-200) like I mentioned before Nolan Ryan rookie cards, Robin Yount, etc.

 

[SayHeyKid]

Ouch. Hopefully she finds the matress.

 

[Icemantbi]

I wonder why elderly people keep that kind of money hidden away in their houses like that instead of putting it in a bank? My 98 year old grandmother is like that, whenever she gets her pension/old age security checks, she ALWAYS cashes them, always wants $100 bills too. I've never rooted, but I know where she has it all hidden. I've calculated that she has to have AT LEAST $50,000 or so, possibly even more. I think it's crazy that this happens, I'm assuming the elderly got ripped off back in the Great Depression or something, because they never keep money in a bank account.

 

[Doug]

I wonder why elderly people keep that kind of money hidden away in their houses like that instead of putting it in a bank? My 98 year old grandmother is like that, whenever she gets her pension/old age security checks, she ALWAYS cashes them, always wants $100 bills too. I've never rooted, but I know where she has it all hidden. I've calculated that she has to have AT LEAST $50,000 or so, possibly even more. I think it's crazy that this happens, I'm assuming the elderly got ripped off back in the Great Depression or something, because they never keep money in a bank account.

Exactly !

Banks failed....would not let you withdraw your money, locked doors....might give you a few dollars a week...maybe.

but holding paper money like this is dumb, at least turn it into silver or gold.

You could lose it all in a fire, for one thing, plus the value lost by inflation.

http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_08.html

 

[skoda]

Well if I found said mattress id be hiding this money for a good five years.

I always said UTM was the best investment not ITM........

 

[arniesarmy]

That daughter should have known...
every time she asked her mom how she had slept, her mom told her, "Like a million bucks."