“I couldn’t believe it": Man's incredible find in client's trash
<p>A rubbish removalist’s tendency to upcycle and recycle his clients' trash has led him to a rare discovery. </p>
<p>Jesse Stewart, from Brisbane's Get It Gone Rubbish Removal, recalled the moment he was getting rid of an entertainment unit at the tip, when he found a mistakenly discarded medicine bottle with a wad of cash inside. </p>
<p>“I didn’t think too much of it but when I picked it up it was heavy, and I was like, ‘I wonder what’s in there’,“ he told <em>7News</em>. </p>
<p>Stewart “couldn’t believe” his luck when he found out the wad of notes amounted to $7000. </p>
<p>“I’ve never found anything like that before," he said. </p>
<p>But being the good samaritan that he was, Stewart returned the money to its rightful owner, a woman in her 60s and his long-time client. </p>
<p>“She was so grateful. She couldn’t believe it,” he said, adding that she did not even realise she had the cash stashed away. </p>
<p>“She didn’t think anyone would be that nice to give it back, so she gave me a few hundred bucks, which was nice," he said, revealing that she gave him a $300 unsolicited reward. </p>
<p>While he did return the money back to its rightful owner, Stewart shared that he did think about keeping it. </p>
<p>“To be honest, my first thought was to keep it,” he laughed.</p>
<p>“The person who owned it has treated me really well over the last year of working for her ... I just felt too guilty, I could not keep it.”</p>
<p>This is not the Brisbane local's first interesting find, as his tendency to upcycle trash has led to a trove of treasures including <span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">a haul of rare Australian stamps, an electric scooter and an antique piano.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">But, the cash definitely </span>“took the cake”. </p>
<p>“I don’t think I’ll find something like that again,” he said.</p>
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