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Daughter who threw out mum's mattress with $1million savings stuffed in it searches rubbish dump
By Tom Pettifor 11/06/2009
A woman threw out her elderly mum's old mattress not realising it was stuffed with a million dollars. When she learned the heart-stopping truth she dashed outside but was too late to stop workers taking the rubbish away. The woman - known only as Anat, who had treated her mum to a new mattress - had no choice but to head for the dumps and begin searching for the fortune in great mounds of refuse.
Yesterday she was a pitiful sight still sifting through tons of garbage on landfill sites around Tel Aviv, Israel. Newspaper Yediot Ahronot published a picture of her plight. Dump manager Yitzhak Borba told Israeli Army Radio his staff were helping her and that she appeared "totally desperate".
He said 2,500 tons of rubbish arrive at the site every day. Mr Borba even increased security to keep out treasure hunters who had heard Anat's story.
She gave her mother the new mattress on Monday. The old lady had stashed away US dollars and Israeli shekels after "a traumatic experience with banks".
Anat remained hopeful but, prepared for the worst, she said: "People have to take everything in proportion and thank God for the good and the bad."
See our page on how to dispose of a mattress.
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