His cash ain't nothing but trash

I found a great story in the New York POST!

If you are in search of just one honest person, I have one for you.

Actually, a few. They are people who work at the Recology plant in Humboldt County, California, a recycling outfit that handles the rubbish from the town in Oregon where the luckiest man in Oregon lives.

Last week, a man in Ashland, Oregon, for reasons best known to the demon called carelessness, tossed out a shoebox in the recycling. 

His life savings - $23,000 - was in the box.  Big whoopsie.

Once he realized what he had done, he called his local trash authorities, who told him his box o'loot was taking a trip to Cali. 

He got on the phone to Recology.  They handle the tossaways from over a million locations in the Pacific Northwest.  It's probably best that they didn't tell the hapless man that.  They told him they'd keep an eye out for the box, and they did.


“We take quite a bit of material every day, so the odds of finding that are not much better than a needle in a haystack,” Linda Wise, general manager of the Samoa Resource Recovery Center operated by Recology, told the local paper out west.

And she went on to say they kept a lookout, and then..."The box showed up and came down the sorting line, and we were all excited to see it,” says Wise.

Somewhere between Oregon and Humboldt County, $320 was missing from the box, but all the rest of the money was there.  The man and his family drove five hours to get it all back.

“Everyone who was on the sorting line was beaming this morning,” Wise said. “And now this gentleman will get to have a great weekend.”

And now, so will we!