Man forgets he hid absurd amount of cash in TV – and is reunited with it 30 years later

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BYJOSHUA BARRIE

• 12:09, 18 FEB 2017
• UPDATED14:15, 18 FEB 2017

How do you forget about $100,000? (Photo: Getty)
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Thirty years ago, a man hid 100,000 Canadian dollars in a TV . That's approximately £61,400.

Somehow, the 68-year-old, who hasn't been named for privacy reasons, managed to forget that he'd stashed the cash inside the box. Quite how, we don't know.

Three decades on, recycling plant workers have found the money stowed away in the back of the set. Employees at a factory in Barrie, Ontario, cracked open the broken television set and found huge stacks of bills.

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Police say that the man has since been reunited with the money after tracing bank records from 1985.

The money was found at a recycling plant (Photo: Getty)
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“This is a unique situation where this large quantity of money was missing without anyone knowing it was missing,” police officer Nicole Rodgers told the Ottawa Citizen .

“He hadn’t even realised with the police officers sitting in his house that they were speaking of the cash box with his money in it.

“In his mind, he thought it was still somewhere else in his house.”

Rodgers added: "It wasn’t like he was hazardous with his money … he probably thought it was under the mattress."

Plant operators at the Global Electric Electronic Processing (GEEP) plant in Barrie found the stash on January 13.

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“It’s surprising how compact 100,000 Canadian dollars is in fifties,” said GEEP’s vice president of operations Lew Coffin.

Returning the money was a good deed. Apparently, there wasn't a requirement for the workers at the recycling station to hand it in.

Police said the man, who hails from a nearby village called Bolsover, was “relieved and ecstatic” over the finding. Understandable. Maybe he'll buy a new TV – flat screen, this time.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-forgets-hid-absurd-amount-9843277

 

[Dastaan]

ab koi aisa evidence panama case main na aa jai...k dada jan nai radio set main millions dinar or ashrafiyan chupai thi.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

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• 12:09, 18 FEB 2017
• UPDATED14:15, 18 FEB 2017

How do you forget about $100,000? (Photo: Getty)
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Thirty years ago, a man hid 100,000 Canadian dollars in a TV . That's approximately £61,400.

Somehow, the 68-year-old, who hasn't been named for privacy reasons, managed to forget that he'd stashed the cash inside the box. Quite how, we don't know.

Three decades on, recycling plant workers have found the money stowed away in the back of the set. Employees at a factory in Barrie, Ontario, cracked open the broken television set and found huge stacks of bills.

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Police say that the man has since been reunited with the money after tracing bank records from 1985.

The money was found at a recycling plant (Photo: Getty)
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“This is a unique situation where this large quantity of money was missing without anyone knowing it was missing,” police officer Nicole Rodgers told the Ottawa Citizen .

“He hadn’t even realised with the police officers sitting in his house that they were speaking of the cash box with his money in it.

“In his mind, he thought it was still somewhere else in his house.”

Rodgers added: "It wasn’t like he was hazardous with his money … he probably thought it was under the mattress."

Plant operators at the Global Electric Electronic Processing (GEEP) plant in Barrie found the stash on January 13.

It's amazing what you can find in the back of an old TV (Photo: Getty)
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“It’s surprising how compact 100,000 Canadian dollars is in fifties,” said GEEP’s vice president of operations Lew Coffin.

Returning the money was a good deed. Apparently, there wasn't a requirement for the workers at the recycling station to hand it in.

Police said the man, who hails from a nearby village called Bolsover, was “relieved and ecstatic” over the finding. Understandable. Maybe he'll buy a new TV – flat screen, this time.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-forgets-hid-absurd-amount-9843277

LOL that is very funny

He must be drunk and hiding it from his family

 

[haviZsultan]

ab koi aisa evidence panama case main na aa jai...k dada jan nai radio set main millions dinar or ashrafiyan chupai thi.

Aisa evidence aagaya hai Qatari sheikh key roop mein..

 

[punit]

i did the same .. only the amount was 1000 Rs and duration was three months.

 

[PakSword]

i did the same .. only the amount was 1000 Rs and duration was three months.

Another difference is that the old man forgot $1000K, but you were constantly searching for those 1000 Rs.

 

[punit]

Another difference is that the old man forgot $1000K, but you were constantly searching for those 1000 Rs.