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More than $100,000 found in an old television at a Barrie recycling centre has been returned to its rightful owner.Employees at GEEP Industries were dismantling the television last month when a cash box and banking records were found inside the TV. The television had been sitting on the property for more than a year.“I was like ‘whoa!’ There was like four stacks of $50 bills and I knew it was a large amount of money,” says general manager Rick Deschamps.

The items were ultimately handed over to police. Officers were able to use the banking records to locate the owner. “There were some bank documents and legal documents inside so we were able to track down him in that capacity,” says Barrie police Const. Nicole Rodgers. The owner, a 68-year-old man from Bolsover, Ont., which is located near Kawartha Lakes, told police that he had put the inheritance money in the television for safe keeping.

“One of those safe spots that he thought he'd never forget, but apparently he did and it got passed on to a family friend many years later,” says Rodgers. That family friend eventually brought it to the recycling centre. “Hopefully he's put it in a savings account now and his family will be able to use the inheritance the way they wish.”

Wires and tubes and lots of glass and plastic, that’s what TV recyclers usually find inside old sets. But for one worker in Canada, the discovery of a secret box helped jar the memory of a forgotten inheritance.More than $100,000 in cash was found inside a television that was being processed at an Ontario recycling plant in January, CNN partner CTV Network reported this week. The money was found inside a cash box, stashed into the TV console.

“There was like, four stacks of $50 bills, and I knew it was a large amount of money,” Rick Deschamps, general manager of the plant told CTV. Deschamps praised his employee for being honest and turning the box over to authorities. Along with the money, there were documents that led police to the unidentified 68-year old owner of the TV, who told investigators that he gave the set to a friend 30 years ago. He had apparently forgotten that the money was inside.

His plan at the time was to give the money to family members as an inheritance, police said. The friend finally got rid of the television, not knowing that his trash would turn out to be a friend’s treasure. Now that the man has been reunited with his cash, police had this advice. “Hopefully he’s put it in a savings account now,” Barrie Police Const. Nicole Rodgers said.