Rodell Alton Colton couldn’t have imagined his birthday would end up like this.

According to a WTOP report, Colton, who just turned 72, had a minor fender-bender in a convenience store parking lot in New Carrolton, Md. on his birthday. As if that wasn’t a big enough bummer, when police responded they discovered he was driving on a suspended license, and a subsequent search of his car turned up quite the payload:

Police ordered him to empty his car. He removes one duffel bag and an officer another.

“When the officer removed the large bag, and wrapped his arms around it to lay it on the ground, not only could he smell it but he could feel what he believed to be dope of some kind,” says New Carrollton Police Chief David Rice.

The duffel bags contained about 156 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $1.4 million.

There’s little doubt that Colton will learn a valuable lesson from this experience — if your license has been suspended and you’re hauling hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs across state lines, don’t wait around for the cops to respond to a minor parking lot run-in. Maybe he’ll do things differently once he gets out of jail, sometime around his 77th birthday.