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Last update - 16:18 10/06/2009
Woman mistakenly junks $1 million mattress
By The Associated Press

An Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress with $1 million stuffed inside, setting off a frantic search through tons of garbage at a number of landfill sites, media sources 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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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.
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  1.   Filled mattress 13:16  |  DGS 10/06/09
  2.   $1 million mattress 15:22  |  Racheli 10/06/09
  3.   1$ million in a mattress 15:26  |  hazim hussien 10/06/09
  4.   haha 15:39  |  sam i am 10/06/09
  5.   DON`T U EVER THROW OUT GRANDMA`S OLD MATTRESS: IT`S PRICELESS!))) 16:29  |  THE DEEP THROAT))))) 10/06/09
  6.   Thief. 16:50  |  Al 10/06/09
  7.   have they ever heard of something called "banks" 16:59  |  yael 10/06/09
  8.   Mother should have either spoken earlier or kept quiet afterwards 17:03  |  Benjamina 10/06/09
  9.   hope she finds it 17:47  |  Yochanan 10/06/09
  10.   Shtuyot!! 18:49  |  Jack 10/06/09
  11.   lets hope that a poor person took this mattress 19:18  |  Bernard 10/06/09
  12.   Outsatnding news 19:26  |  John 10/06/09
  13.   Eh EXACTLY ONE MILLION, what about +10 - 10? 19:29  |  Haha 10/06/09
  14.   Mattress $ 1 million 19:52  |  The Teacher/Instruct 10/06/09
  15.   She slept on her money.... 19:59  |  fritz t. 10/06/09
  16.   MIllion Dollar Matress 20:04  |  Giovani 10/06/09
  17.   fritz 20:21  |  The Teacher/Instruct 10/06/09
  18.   Where to look for the matrass? 21:35  |  Muskens 10/06/09
  19.   Mattress 04:49  |  Llyn 11/06/09
  20.   Hey Bernard 04:00  |  John 12/06/09
  21.   Mattress: Too Far Fetched to be True 00:02  |  Larry 20/06/09
  22.   Imagine if the money was found by... 08:36  |  rm 21/06/09
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