An unemployed man in northern Illinois was working in his garden when he came across some serious green -- bags filled with $150,000 cash.
Wayne Sabaj went to pick some broccoli to go with a roast he was cooking when he spotted several bags. He thought it was garbage, but instead discovered stacks of $20 bills that added up to about $150,000, Chicago's WLS-TV reported.
"I went and made a drink to calm down," Sabaj told the station. "I haven't worked in two years. Yeah, I was like, 'I could really use this money.' With my luck, it would be bank robbery and I'd get caught and [they would] say I'd robbed a bank."
Sabaj, a 49-year-old carpenter who currently lives with his father, said he decided to turn in the money because he figured the cash would cause more problems than it solved.
The McHenry County Sheriff's Office now has custody of the cash. Detectives are waiting to see if anyone claims it
