
Heavy rain caused destructive flash flooding in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles on Tuesday, but city officials say another culprit was to blame for the wet, muddy mess: a discarded mattress.
by Daniel Nussbaum21 Oct 2015, 11:13 AM PST0

On Tuesday, Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University student whose questionable story of how she was raped by another student led her to carry a mattress everywhere she went on campus for years, gaining her enough notoriety that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand invited her to President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address, ignored the university’s email banning large or heavy objects from the graduation ceremony and carried the mattress onstage when she accepted her diploma.
by William Bigelow20 May 2015, 5:55 AM PST0

An Oregon cat stowed away in a mattress and is now missing after a man sold his girlfriend’s mattress without knowing the cat was inside. Hayley Crews’ boyfriend, Roy Dufek, sold her mattress for $100 while she was at work,
by William Bigelow23 Dec 2014, 9:10 PM PST0