By Trash Company Finds $25,000 Stashed in a Discarded Freezer and Tracks Down Owners to Return Cold Hard Cash
There’s plenty of humorous story to prove the saying “one man’s trash is another’s treasure,” but when an Ohio family accidentally threw their grandmother’s treasure in the trash, it was no laughing matter.
Unbeknownst to her relatives, the crafty grandmother had hidden $ 25,000 in cash in her freezer. While tidying up the kitchen, her former relatives accidentally tossed the ordered sum along with the stale frozen vegetables.
It was only after the fact that the old woman remembered to warn her family not to lose the envelope with the money, but by then it was too late. The garbage had already been collected and his savings were on their way to the city dump.
Frantic, the family reached out to Republic Solid Waste Services to see if there was any way to recover their grandmother’s lost savings.
It would all depend, they knew, on whether the truck had already reached the landfill or not. If the truck had been dumped at the landfill, it would have been a lost cause.
“The bulldozers … immediately start smoothing it out, pushing it up the hill, dumping dirt on it and starting to cover the landfill process,” Republic operations supervisor Gary Capan told Cleveland. ABC News-5. “… We do that in a continuous process [so] if it is dropped there, it can no longer be found. “
Fortunately, Capan was able to locate the driver who had not yet arrived. The truck was diverted to a nearby recycling center where its six-ton load of garbage was dumped onto the track, and a crew of 10 hard-core workers immediately began sifting through the pile of garbage in search of buried loot.
And they found it, in record time.
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“[I] I couldn’t believe it took 10 minutes and I actually said, ‘Man, it looks like this,’ I took it out, opened it, and there was the package with the money. They (the family) were so happy they were crying, ”Dan Schoewe, operations manager for the recycling center, told News-5. “It’s rare that we can find something for someone, so this is the biggest I’ve seen in 30 years.”
While we’re glad this story has a happy ending, a warning to the world’s well-meaning messy – the elderly. I often have a habit of storing money and other valuables in the strangest places, so if helping clean a loved one’s residence is on your to-do list, be sure to proceed with caution.
Since US Mint “vegetables” generally do not have an expiration date, it would be a sin to throw them away.
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