My apologies to Reuters news service for "borrowing" this article from them. Original story is in standard print....my added thoughts are in italics.
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man wept for joy this week when he recovered 5 million yen ($42,210) in cash his wife had mistakenly thrown out with the household rubbish.
The 35-year-old man had withdrawn the money from a bank account but, fearing it would be stolen, he hid it (good thinking so far....) inside a refuse bag (ummmm....not so smart) which he placed in a rubbish bin (was this REALLY the best place he could think of to hide the money), Japanese media said.
His wife unknowingly threw out the bag (notice whose fault this was, and I can relate, as my wife unknowingly threw my cell phone away at McDonald's once...although I guess that's better than dropping it in, say, the Gulf of Mexico), which was found last month at a refuse collection point outside an apartment building in Saitama, north of Tokyo.
Local police returned the money after the man was able to give details of the exact amount and where he had withdrawn it.
Many Japanese keep large quantities of money hidden in their homes and cash is often used for business transactions. (Many Americans also keep large quantities of money hidden in their homes for "business transactions", too.....they're called drug deals!).
(So, what have we learned from this story? Japanese very good at making cars and televisions...not so good at hiding money).
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