Last update - 00:00 21/03/2008
Tiberias workers find thousands of shekels in sewage plant
By The Associated Press
Something didn't smell quite right with a pile of cash discovered yesterday at a sewage purification plant in Tiberias.
Shocked workers at the northern Israel plant found about 7,000 shekels of the dirty money, all in 200-shekel bills among the smelly sewage. TV stations showed the bills sticking out of sewage and stuck in pipes. The bills were cut in half.
"I called the police but they didn't believe me. At first they thought I was playing a prank," plant manager Haim Cohen told reporters.
"When police did arrive they didn't believe me and left," Cohen said. "Later on, different officers came and sifted through the sewage to see for themselves."
The media speculated that the stash might have been the result of a domestic dispute.
Others speculated that one partner might have cut up the bills and flushed them down the toilet to punish the other.
A police spokesman said the money might have been linked to criminals, and police are investigating.
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