VIDEO: LI man tosses $3G in the garbage, recovers it

Matt Freudenberg was in a panic.

The Riverhead man had mistakenly thrown $3,000 he had earned from weekend concession sales into the garbage Monday morning, and the trash truck had already picked it up. The money, which he had planned to use to pay his overdue mortgage, was gone.

But with the help of Maggio Sanitation Service Inc., which Freudenberg called frantically after his discovery, the truck was diverted to a transfer station at Yaphank. There, about eight workers searched 12 tons of garbage for more than an hour before the small paper bag containing Freudenberg's cash was found.

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