First there was the 33 thousand dollar discarded closet.Then came the million dollar mattress.
Israelis seem to find the strangest places to keep hoards of money (who knew they had so much to begin with?). Today's latest find -- gas mask boxes.
The IDF Homefront command has been collecting gas masks from Israel's citizens to refurbish them (or replace them) for redistribution.
We gave ours back about 8 months ago....all different shapes and sizes. There were the space suit models for infants, small children models had a air blower connected to them, and then the teenagers and us had larger ones.
Since our gas masks don't need to be used on a regular basis, we (and most of Israel) keep them in the "boydem" (the attic) or out of sight and mind, hoping they will never need to be used.
YNET reports that the IDF Gas Mask recycling facility recently found in a returned gas mask box -- 26,000 NIS. They workers notified the police who located the owner...in Sederot. (All gas mask boxes are barcoded and databased to owners).
The shocked owner happily received his money back -- he didn't even know the money was missing, since it was family members who returned the gas masks without knowing of the money's existence. The owner threw in a caveat -- I had 80,000 NIS stored there all together in 3 other gas mask boxes...The recycling center is searching for those boxes now, and hopes to return the money to its rightful owner.
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