Worst nightmare: woman loses $1m in mattress

From the ABC:

An Israeli woman has mistakenly thrown out a mattress she claims has more than $1 million hidden inside.

The woman says she bought a new mattress on Monday and threw out the old one.

But the next day she remembered she had hidden her life savings inside the old mattress.

She began a frantic search but rubbish collectors had already taken it.

Searches at three separate dumps turned up nothing.

Israel's daily newspaper Yediot Ahronot has published a photo of a woman searching through garbage at a dump in southern Israel.

The dump manager confirms she was desperate and his staff were helping her, but said with 2,500 tonnes of rubbish arriving every day, the mattress would be impossible to find.