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Oh, Rubbish! Woman Throws £12k In The Bin..

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Oh, Rubbish! Woman Throws £12k In The Bin.. Empty Oh, Rubbish! Woman Throws £12k In The Bin..

Post by kiwis kitten Mon 14 Sep 2009, 6:00 pm

A "very confused" elderly woman reportedly lost the money - her life savings - after mistakenly dumping the shopping bag in a wheelie bin.
The bin was then collected and taken to a landfill site near Horsham, West Sussex.
The woman's daughter later asked staff to hunt for the cash but a team of 14 binmen could find no trace of it.
They stopped trucks dumping rubbish for 45 minutes during the search before admitting defeat.
After news of the mistake emerged, locals hoping for a windfall were warned to stay away from the landfill site.
"It is a secure site and we would urge people not to even consider going there," Worthing Borough Council spokeswoman Wendy Knight said.
David Savory, a spokesman for BIFFA who run the landfill, said trespassing could be dangerous.
He told Sky News Online 1,200 tonnes of rubbish would have been tipped on top of the site since the money went missing.
"The chance of finding one plastic bag would be extremely remote," he said.
"It's not a safe place to go unsupervised."
The landfill, which has a two metre-high fence, is monitored 24-hours a day, he added.
According to the unnamed family, the cash was stored in £50 notes in a shopping bag..


(from Island FM)


No amount of money would entice me to go mooching amongst all that rubbish.... Oh, Rubbish! Woman Throws £12k In The Bin.. Lol
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