Pez dispensers buried on New York city beaches at the weekend contained something even sweeter than the usual treats - cold, hard cash.

The backers of the popular Hidden Cash movement filled three-dozen of the devices with $100 bills and scattered them for a scavenger hunt in Brooklyn's Coney Island and Brighton Beach.

One lucky boy found a Superman-shaped dispenser which was good for two round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the US.

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