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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joseph B. Frederick and Karen Matthews

New York magnet fisher catches safe full of soggy bills worth $100,000

ASSOCIATED PRESS

James Kane has used a powerful magnet to fish all manner of junk from New York City waterways, but he says the stacks of $100 bills he pulled from a safe were something else entirely.

Kane’s girlfriend, Barbi Agostini, was recording last Friday as he pulled a slimy safe out of a lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, famous as the location of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, and extracted bags of waterlogged, gunk-covered Benjamins from inside it.

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