« Make it rain As the song says so well. A CIT van delighted drivers following it on a California highway on Friday after its back door opened, letting out wads of bills in the hundreds. The joy of motorists was however quickly curbed by the police, dispatched to the scene shortly after to restore order.
VIDEO. Rain of tickets on a California highway: “There is money everywhere!” “
“There are a lot of videos of people stealing money on the freeway by picking it up on the ground,” Sgt. Curtis Martin of the California Freeway Police said at a press conference. The notes dropped from the truck, which amount to thousands of dollars in total, belong to the bank and must be handed over to a police station, he insisted.
Pick up greenbacks by handfuls
The jackpot was caused by the unexpected opening of an armored van door near San Diego, not far from the border with Mexico. Videos posted on social media show people pulling up on the tracks and the emergency lane and scurrying down the road to pick up greenbacks by handfuls. Some even toss them in the air like confetti.
A man and a woman, too greedy, were also arrested. They had rushed for the tickets but, in a rush, had locked their vehicles from the outside, finding themselves stranded on the highway.
