Yahoo! News - Thousands of Bills Fall in Japan GarbageFri Dec 12,11:12 PM ET
TOKYO - A garbage disposal plant in central Japan has hit the jackpot. Operations at the plant suddenly came to a halt Friday morning when a machine used to crush refuse began spewing out 10,000 yen-bills ( onto a conveyor belt).
In total, some $287,000 had found its way into the garbage, Gyoda city police said Saturday.
Police, shown by public broadcaster NHK, sifted through the some 3,200 soiled bills strewn across the floor, patching together the torn pieces with tape and piling them onto a banquet-sized table to be counted.
"I got the creeps — it was kind of scary. You expect garbage but you never imagine money to come out," said one unidentified employee interviewed by NHK.
No one has come forward to claim the money, and police are trying to track down the owner. If the money is not claimed within six months, it will go to Gyoda city, which owns the plant, police said.
Gyoda lies just northwest of Tokyo in neighboring Saitama prefecture.
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