Jakarta –
Americans are shocked by theit’s raining money‘ dollars on the California, United States toll road. In Indonesia, it also happened it’s raining money.
Reported from NBC News, Sunday (11/21/2021) this rain of money came from an armored truck. The truck dropped a lot of money onto the Carlsbad, California motorway. This rain of money also caused a huge traffic jam when motorists got out of their vehicles to collect money.
Just before 9:15 a.m. Friday (11/19) local time, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) began receiving 911 calls about cash spread across the Interstate 5 area near Cannon Road.
Summarized detik.com, Sunday (21/11) the following are some incidents of money raining in Indonesia and abroad:
1. Money Rain in RI
In Indonesia there has also been a rain of money. The rain of money was created by Tung Desem Waringin while promoting his book. He once distributed money in denominations of Rp 1,000, Rp 5,000 to Rp 10,000 as much as Rp 100 million on June 1, 2008 from a helicopter.
“For example, the book that I launched was not only for branding but there was an offer. So when I launched the book I added a 3 day seminar prize in 10 cities, when the sales of the book in 1 day managed to sell 38,878 books, famous is not enough if there is no offer,” he explained.
Tung Desem said the idea was born because he saw Richard Branson, who is the founder and owner of the Virgin Records group who is also one of the world’s most famous successful billionaires.
Tung Desem said it was Richard Branson’s promotions that always attracted the attention of many people or went viral. He admitted that he got the theory and then applied it in a different form.
From this, an idea was created, namely by spreading money in the sky, it certainly could effectively get people’s attention in the form of promotions that were carried out to sell his books at that time.
“So for that, I published a book about Financial Revolution, which sold 10,511 books in 2005 at that time. That action (spreading money) in 2008 sold 38,878 books. In the past, even the money that was distributed Rp. 100 million belonged to Gramedia, but after that they get Rp 8 billion from book sales (Marketing Revolution). With a book for Rp 200 thousand, you can get a seminar and get a CD at that time, it was the first time in the world, you know, “he explained.
2. Money rain in Illinois
There has also been a rain of dollar bills on the Illinois toll road, United States of America. Reported by CNN, Friday (1/26/2018), the ‘money rain’ occurred when the money brought by a car that had an accident, scattered on the toll road.
US dollar bills ranging from US$ 5, US$ 10 to US$ 20 bills are scattered on the street.
According to local authorities, this incident began when a car carrying a large amount of cash had an accident
The driver of the car lost control while driving and crashed into another car. Immediately the money that was brought was also scattered.
The local police then came to the location to evacuate the victims and the scattered money. The police also picked up banknotes that were on the street.
According to local authorities, the incident began when a car carrying a large amount of cash had an accident.
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