Last Thursday, an Oregon man made a terrible mistake.
While taking out his trash and recycling, the man accidentally threw away a shoebox full of cash. Actually, it was a LOT of cash.
The old box contained the man's life savings, worth $23,000, and he accidentally threw it away.
Figuring it was too late, he still contacted the recycling company, who informed him it was heading to a Recology plant in Northern California. By the time he realized his error and made the call, the man's waste, along with the waste of over 1 million homes in the Pacific Northwest, had been processed. Linda Wise, general manager of the Samoa Resource Recovery Center, said, "We take quite a bit of material every day, so the odds of finding that are not much better than a needle in a haystack."
Still, the workers hunted for that shoebox. And to the surprise of everyone, and the relief of that man, they found it on the sorting line.
Amazingly, despite the 200-mile trip in the back of a recycling truck and in a recycliung plant, nearly all of the $23,000 was recovered. The man only lost $320 in total.
Now, to prevent something like this from happening again, may we suggest a bank?
Via NY Post