CLEVELAND - One lucky Ohio family was able to get their $25,000 back after accidentally throwing it out with the garbage — thanks to the quick actions of their local waste management crew.
On July 28, Gary Capan, operations supervisor at Republic Services, got a frantic phone call from a woman in Lorain County, Ohio who said she lost something important in the garbage.
Turns out, that important something was her grandmother’s $25,000. Capan said that the family had been putting food in the freezer and in order to make room, a family member threw out the bag containing the cash.
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