A New York City mates got their hands connected astir $100,000 successful currency from a harmless they pulled up from a water portion 'magnet fishing' successful Corona Park.
To propulsion of this unsocial feat, James Kane and Barbie Agostini attached a neodymium magnet - which spell for arsenic small arsenic $21.99 connected Amazon - to a sportfishing rod and reeled the aged harmless retired from the depths of the water.
And astatine first, it was a mundane find due to the fact that arsenic Kane told NY1: 'We person recovered plentifulness of safes before, this is conscionable what a magnet fisher does.'
The mates explained that the safes they find are usually empty, prevention for immoderate integrative baggies that erstwhile held cash. But aft they wrenched this 1 open, it became wide that they'd stumbled connected rather the score.
'We pulled it retired and determination were 2 stacks of freaking hundreds. Big stacks,' Kane said.
James Kane, an avid magnet fisher, is seen pulling an old, mud-covered harmless retired from a water successful Corona Park successful Queens
Kane holds a soaking bedewed stack of 100 dollar bills from the safe
Agostini thought Kane was joking astatine first, but erstwhile she saw the bills wrong integrative baggies, she said she 'lost it.'
Unfortunately for them, h2o did negociate to enactment its mode wrong the baggies and harm the 100 dollar bills.
It's unclear if they'll beryllium capable to currency successful the bills, but determination is simply a accidental that the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing volition redeem their money.
If much than 50 percent of the currency is identifiable, a lawful holder of the notes 'may person a redemption astatine afloat value,' according to the BEP website.
Kane told NY 1 that he's ever wanted to go 'a treasure hunter,' and erstwhile helium and Agostini were bored during the pandemic, they decided to instrumentality up magnet fishing.
'We telephone it the mediocre man's treasure hunting,' Kane said.
The mates created a YouTube transmission past June called 'Let's Get Magnetic' wherever they station their champion hauls from assorted bodies of h2o passim the New York City area.
Kane and his girlfriend, Barbie Agostini, person been doing magnet sportfishing since the pandemic to interruption escaped from the boredom of lockdowns
Kane is pictured holding a tiny pistol helium magnet fished retired of parkland successful New York City. The mates aboriginal called the police, who took the weapon with them for harmless keeping
In a caller video, they recovered aggregate watches, jewelry pieces, aged New York City subway tokens and adjacent a tiny pistol.
The mates said they did probe and came to the decision that that uncovering and keeping things specified arsenic weapons and safes afloat of discarded currency could perchance get them into ineligible blistery water.
So erstwhile they find items that could beryllium tied to transgression activity, they person made a wont of phoning the constabulary to marque definite they aren't disturbing anything.
Kane said that the New York Police Department conducted an probe regarding the harmless and recovered determination was nary issue.
'Obviously, it was a harmless that was stolen but determination was nary transgression with us,' Agostini said. 'There was nary IDs, nary mode to find the archetypal idiosyncratic successful the harmless truthful they were similar "well, congratulations."'
The mates besides said the apical brass of the NYPD were astatine the scene, including captains, and that galore officers were excited to spot what they'd found.
Kane said that immoderate cops with 18 years nether their loop told them that 'they person ne'er ever heard of thing similar this.'
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