Woman Loses Mattress with $1 Million Inside

No, this is not a joke. A woman in Israel had been putting her life's savings in a mattress. I guess she thought this was safer than the bank. Unfortunately, the mattress got thrown out when her daughter surprised her by replacing it with a new one.


[CNN.com]

The daughter, Annat, "woke up early Sunday to get a good deal on a new mattress as a surprise for her mother.

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.

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."

I can understand putting maybe a few thousand dollars in a mattress, but one million dollars?! Seriously, who would put their entire life savings inside of a mattress? Well, I guess she is a woman.