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Queens resident defied the odds thanks to the Department of Sanitation and was reunited with his lost wallet after throwing it in trash[hhmc]
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Avrohom Levitt threw out his wallet on W. 186th Street in Manhattan, DSNY tweeted[hhmc]
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The Department of Sanitation of New York helped Levitt by arranging a lost valuable search[hhmc]
In a seemingly impossible mission, one lucky Queens resident defied the odds thanks to the Department of Sanitation and was reunited with his lost wallet after throwing it in the trash.
It all started when Avrohom Levitts grey wallet fell into a shopping bag in his car on Friday while he was celebrating Purim in Manhattan, the NY Post reports. He apparently then dumped the bag, with the wallet still inside, in a trash can on W. 186th Street, before heading home.
The Post reports that the real estate broker had a tracking device inside his wallet because he “tends to lose things a lot.”
However, the app didnt recognize the device, The Post reports. So the Department of Sanitation of New York helped Levitt by arranging a lost valuable search at Interstate Waste Services, a waste transfer station, in Newark.
Lucky man who accidentally tossed wallet in trash on W. 186th Street in Manhattan recovered item during successful lost valuable search arranged by DSNY at waste transfer station. Our pleasure to assist. pic.twitter.com/RIv6jzr9ls
— NYC Sanitation (@NYCSanitation) March 26, 2019
The DSNY held the truck containing Levitts wallet until Monday, when he followed it to the dump in Newark, The Post reports.
It was there that a sanitation worker dumped out 20 to 30 garbage bags for Levitt to look through in hopes of finding his wallet, according to The Post. In the end, he dug out his wallet — which contained $68 dollars, credit cards and his toddlers passport card.
Levitt told The Post after finding himself in that stinky situation, he rushed to Neiman Marcus in the Garden State Plaza Mall to douse himself with some pricey perfume.
“I literally sprayed my whole body up,” he told the publication. Levitt added that he needed the credit cards in his wallet for a trip to Poland.
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