New York Magnet Fisher Catches Safe Full of Soggy $100 Bills, He Says

NEW YORK—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. Mr. 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. “Oh, that’s money,” Mr. Kane said in the video of the discovery. “Oh, it is! Stacks of bills, dude!”...