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Million Dollar Mattress Trashed, Woman Throws Life Savings Away

by Tina Kells | June 10, 2009 at 05:40 pm

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An Israeli woman identified only as "Anat" was horrified when she learned that a mattress she had trashed as junk contained her elderly mother's entire life savings amounting to nearly a million dollars. The million dollar mattress was old a dingy and "Anat" wanted to surprise her mother with a better, newer bed. The poor woman never dreamed that she would be throwing away her mother's million dollar life savings.

Distraught by her mistake, the woman rushed to find the million dollar mattress that was stuffed with a lifetime's worth of cold hard cash. "Anat" scoured local garbage dumps hoping to find the million dollar mattress to no avail. For their part, local police have posted guards at the various local garbage dumps to stop looters and opportunists from finding the money first.

The Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot published a picture of the woman searching through refuse 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”, but the mattress was hard to find among the 2,500 tonnes of rubbish arriving at the site every day.

Mr Borba said that he increased security at the site to keep would-be treasure hunters at bay. For her part, Anat is displaying an admirable stoicism. “People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad,” she said.