A couple was doing what they call “poor man’s fishing” when they found something that certainly made them a bit richer — a safe containing $100,000.

ABC News reports how New York City residents James Kane and Barbi Agostini were hanging out Friday in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, passing the time by magnet fishing.

For those unfamiliar, magnet fishing is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: An archived Yahoo! article described the pastime as one both used for people to find potentially exciting trinkets and treasures and one leveraged for environmental clean-up efforts, all with help of powerful magnets typically latched on to the end of a rope that can pull these objects out from underwater.

Kane and Agostini, according to The Guardian, have previously pulled out things like old guns, grenades from World War II, and even jewelry. But a safe full of money? That was a new one.

In fact, Fox 59 states how Agostini didn’t fully believe Kane when he told her what was in the safe they had pulled out of the river, instead thinking he was pulling her leg.

“Until I saw it for myself, and he peeled back the dollars, and I saw the hundred dollars, what’s when I finally believed him, and I just gasped,” she admitted.

The same ABC News report explains how the couple then reported the money to the New York Police Department, just in case it was part of illicit activities. But after the NYPD failed to connect the dough to any sort of crime, they confirmed that the two could keep it.

“It still doesn’t feel real,” added Kane.

The couple said how water damage has made the money a bit too delicate to cash in just yet. They plan on taking it to the Treasury Department in Washington D.C. in order to try to get it reconstructed.

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