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Busted For - Literally - Throwing Money Out The Window

By John Mesirow

You know the expression "throwing money out the window?" How about "money to burn?" Well, a man in Taiwan DID BOTH, and was arrested and "charged with public endangerment and destruction of currency," as reported by news.com.au.

The man tossed the bills [$1 million Taiwan ($30,000 US)] from a taxi in a crowded part of Taichung city on Sunday as people stopped to pick up the cash, Changhua police official Lin Shih-ming said.

That's not all.

He is believed to have thrown heaps more money on an earlier road trip starting in the capital Taipei.

And ...

The man also burned about T$400,000 and had two more sacks of cash ...

Why? "He might have had a nervous condition, as his state of mind wasn't normal," Lin said. Indeed. And where did the money come from?

"... apparently [from] the proceeds of a property sale ..."

Throwing any chance of a good tip right out the window [bah da bing], the taxi driver turned our monied friend over to the police.

Full post as published by Legal Juice on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).