Depending on your taste in food, you may or may not associate broccoli with good luck. But up in McHenry County, Ill., near Chicago, a man who went to his garden for some broccoli was surprised to discover two bags full of $20 bills – a $150,000 find that would be preferable to broccoli for all but the most devoted vegetable lovers.
The 49-year-old unemployed carpenter had lost his home to foreclosure in 2005 and was living with his father. So the surprise “harvest” probably looked like good news. But rather than take any chances, he decided to turn the money in to the authorities.
“With my luck,” he told an area TV station, “it would’ve come from a bank robbery and I’d be charged with bank robbery.”
His honesty may still have a financial payoff, though. There was no immediate report of any theft of such a sum in his area. If no information about the rightful owner turns up, in time the finder may become the keeper.