It pays to eat your veggies!

An unemployed carpenter in Northern Illinois was picking broccoli in his backyard garden when he stumbled upon a duffle bag, nestled among the peppers and filled with a different kind of green: approximately $150,000 in cash. According to the Northwest Herald, a combination of honesty and suspicion as to the source of the funds (and who might return to retrieve them) led him to turn the money into police, despite having just spent his last $10.

However, police currently have no leads, so it might be a case of finder’s keepers.

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