A woman threw away an unsightly mattress that turned out to be stuffed with cash and jewelry.
The incident took place in the Italian province of Treviso, where an elderly woman hired a cleaning lady to clean her house.
The pensioner did not expect that the cleaning lady would decide to get rid of the old mattress that was stored in the closet. It turned out that it was used as a hiding place, writes the newspaper Tribuna di Treviso .
The alarm was raised by the owner's daughter. She contacted the police.
It turned out that the cleaning lady took the mattress to a bulky waste collection point.
Police officers and volunteers from the civil defense service were involved in the search. Workers from the waste recycling center also took part in the search.
The mattress with 50 thousand euros (about 5.2 million rubles), jewelry and credit cards was found an hour later and returned to the owners.
