JERUSALEM (CNN) -- It was supposed to be a pleasant surprise, but turned into the shock of a lifetime. A woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, gave her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise gift, throwing out the old tattered bed her mother had slept on for decades. The gesture ended up bankrupting Annat's mother, who had stuffed her savings of nearly $1 million inside her old bed for decades, Annat told Israel Army Radio. A massive search is under way at the city dump, where security has been beefed up to keep out treasure-seekers who have heard Annat's story in Israeli media. Annat, who did not want to reveal the rest of her name, told Israel Army Radio that she woke up early Sunday to get a good deal on a new mattress as a surprise for her mother. She fell asleep that night, exhausted after lugging up the new mattress and hauling down the old one to be taken out with the trash. When her mother realized the next day what her daughter had done, she told her that she had been using the mattress to stash away her life savings and had nearly $1 million padding the inside of the worn-out mattress. Annat ran downstairs, but it was too late. The garbage truck had already taken away the money-stuffed mattress. Annat alerted the two major dump sites in the Israeli city in an effort to locate the bed, but so far she has had no luck. Yitchak Burba, one of the dump site managers, told Army Radio that he and his men are working relentlessly to try to help Annat find the million-dollar mattress among the tons of garbage at the landfill. The publicity has triggered a wave of people also trying to find the mattress and its contents for themselves. Burba has increased security around the dump to keep them out. Source
Oh holy **** wow, you can bet they won't ever see that money again. That is some major bad luck, guess that is what happens when you try and do someone a favour~
But still it's a shame that they won't ever see that money again, either greedy civilians heard it on the news or the dump company claim to of not found it and kept the money for themselves. Unless the dump site manager is Jesus and his workers are the twelve disciples that woman won't being seeing her money anytime soon.
holy ****, so it was, I wondered why the story seemed so familiar to me O__o It's a good place to hide money, but she should have told atleast a few family members about where she stored her money imo.
Oh my gosh. O_O That is what banks are for so something like that would never happen. I would be so upset if that happened to me. That person must feel real bad. A million dollars is somewhere in the garbage and brings on the new term known as trash digger to surface.
I sort of have to wonder why her mother didn't tell her about the savings earlier. Surely she could trust her own daughter, who was only trying to do something loving for her when this happened, with that secret.
Aww that poor woman, and we all know who's gonna blame who. The mum should of put her money in the bank, the inerest would of got her more money anyway. Myabe she was just paranoid that someone who take her money and spend it on garbage.
