After a cat named Mike disappeared, his family realized he may have been accidentally carried away with a discarded couch. The couch had already reached a landfill, but people kept looking. At the Interstate 66 transfer station, landfill workers eventually spotted Mike on a ledge and devised a way to bring him down safely.
After four days of searching, Mike was reunited with his family. The happy ending belonged to a whole chain of people who paid attention, made calls, and kept trying when the first search led nowhere.