Stay Tuned: Recycled TV stuffed with cash? $100,000 found inside old television
Television sets in today’s world have amazing features. A perfect picture, impressive surround sound and even voice control TV remote to change the channels. However there is one drawback of today’s TV models: It’s too thin to hide cash inside. Then again, maybe you didn’t buy a TV set to use as a security safe.
Primarily, Viewers use the TV to watch programs and we are happy about that! The latest story about a TV set holding a wad of cash is one that definitely is raising eyeballs. A recycle plant worker in Canada had the opportunity to discover a secret box. Inside was a jar full of inheritance money and packed full of cash. Reports suggest it was over $100,000.
My TV, like most viewers, is so thin that you couldn’t even find a place to put a quarter. The screen might be 48 inches, but it’s barely over an inch thick. My point? The times have changed. We find the television set to be a point of extreme entertainment. It’s been thinned down to fit our lifestyle. Years ago TV sets were a place to hide things.
Finding money in old TV sets isn’t a random thing. The different charity groups take the set apart to recycle, but also to see what might be behind the wooden panels of the sets. Wills, documents and other treasures have been reported hidden only inches from the tube which delivered the picture on the TV. It’s a common thing to find personal items in TV sets.
Technically you could call an old TV a clunky item was once a large box which rarely was stolen from a home. It was too heavy and too awkward. Homeowners could hide things in the back of a TV easily and nobody would think to look there (even robbers). In today’s world, the TV is the first thing picked off when it comes to robberies because it’s easy to sell on the black market and tough to trace.
The moral of this story? If you see an old TV at a garage sale, poke around and see if there is any treasure next to the old tube. The look of a TV set might have changed, but the idea that it has always part of our family life remains the same. (Photo via Eckhard Etzold.)
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