. >> erik kassab and a friend were trying to make some quick cash finding and selling abandoned bitsom big mike's. >> that day, i was comin'here to -- find any scrap metal that i could take out. i was in a rock in a hard place and i needed -- money pretty quickly and -- >> what do we call that, "scrapping, " or something? >> yeah. it was scrapping. >> erik wasn't having much luck. and then inside this half-collapsed ruin, he turned over a piece of disintegrating plywood and -- >> i saw what i thought was like -- it looked kinda like a plant, like a fake plant, so i went and picked it up. i didn't realize what it was, because it was all bunched up. it had leafs on it, like fake leafs. >> sewn on? >> yeah. >> there was also a maroon wig. >> i did see -- the wig and -- kinda creeped me out, so i didn't wanna pick it up at all. >> so what'd you and your friend do at that point? >> i showed him. he told me it was a poison ivy costume. we actually contemplated keeping it'cause it looked cool. >> yeah. >> and -- decided that it wasn't worth our time, threw it back down right where it was un