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.
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00:00Oh that's a safe. That's definitely another safe. Oh I see a box. It's a hard
00:07click. One handed safes. Guys we got another one. Like I normally would cast I
00:16would cast about 80 feet out. I'm pulling it in and I feel something called a hard
00:20click. A click is when something connects to the magnet and you just you just know
00:25that kind of weight and once you see it crest the water that was a box. A metal
00:30box is always a safe and I got very excited. We have found safes before so
00:36you're always hoping there's something really cool in it. Oh that's money. No way.
00:40Yeah. No way. Oh it is. Stacks of bills dude. Hundreds. Oh there's another stack. Oh my god.
00:54Babe. More money. Holy guys. It's all hundreds. Oh my god. We have like
01:04$20,000 here. Stacks baby. And once I saw the hundred dollars and with the
01:12holographic bars on it I I was speechless. I did not believe that it
01:19was real and then he pulled out a second one. The condition of the bills they were
01:25pretty destroyed especially the top half top and bottom half the parts that would
01:33have came in contact more with water. Those were pretty far gone. They were
01:38coming off in pieces. Well after the NYPD released it and you know upon
01:44further inspection they they couldn't even take it in as evidence they gave it
01:47to us as I guess you call it a finders keepers thing with no evidence of foul
01:53play or something they mentioned like that. I plan on taking it to Washington
01:58to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. That's the only way to get it restored.
02:04If not it is literally garbage. There's no markings, no ID in it, no. Yeah not
02:09saying I wouldn't want someone to reclaim what they lost. Obviously that
02:12would be a beautiful thing especially if it ruined someone's life or you know
02:15what I mean. What any plans for the money? I mean we'd like to possibly move out in
02:21New York, find a little place somewhere, do something nice for the kids. Yeah.
02:28Maybe get some upgrades to our channel, the equipment we use. Maybe a vehicle
02:34would be nice. Yeah those are all different ideas we bounced around.