A shoe box stuffed with more than $22,000 dollars was accidentally recycled in Oregon then miraculously returned to its owner after traveling more than 200 miles to California.
A man in Ashland, Oregon, said his wife placed the shoe box on the curb without looking inside on Aug. 1.
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That's when the phone calls started, and they luckily paid off - literally.
The man made a call to his recycling company, Recology, and discovered the box traveled all the way to Samoa, California, at one of the company's center.
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"I was working on the line, pulling off cardboard to be recycled when I suddenly saw some big stacks of $20 bills," Recology Humboldt County Nick Page said. "Honestly, it's probably the largest amount of money I've ever personally gotten to handle."
An official said most of the money was recovered.