A man bought a second-hand storage unit at an auction and was shocked to
find £5.8million cash inside it after it was opened.This shocking
discovery was made public by auctioneer Dan Dotson who hosts US
television show Storage Wars. It was Dan who auctioned off the storage
unit to the lucky buyer.According to Dan, last weekend, at a charity
event in California, a woman came to him and told him that one of this
buyers had found a fortune inside a storage unit he bought from him for
only £390.
Sharing
the news via a video on Twitter, Dan said:An older Asian woman at the
table next to me kept looking at me like she wanted to tell me
something.Eventually she walked up and told me her husband works with a
guy who bought a unit from me for $500 and found a safe inside.And the
first person they called to open it I guess couldn't or didn't.They
called a second person and when that person opened it up - inside the
safe they're normally empty, but this time it wasn't empty.It had
$7.5million (£5.8m) cash inside. Dan told The Blast that a lawyer
claiming he represents the original owners of the storage unit and the
huge sum in it contacted the lucky buyer. The lawyer offered £465,000
($600,000) reward for the money but the buyer turned it down.
Later,
a second offer of £930,000 ($1.2million) was made and the anonymous
buyer accepted it. The buyer will have to give back the rest of the
money. The identities of the original owners of the storage unit have
not been made public.
