Man arrested for throwing cash out taxi window

April 13, 2009

Diana Fasanella

10:18 AM

A Taiwanese man has been charged with public endangerment and destruction of currency after throwing bank notes worth around $41,000 out of a taxi cab window. 

The 55-year-old man, who was not indentified, lobbed the money out of the taxi’s window in a crowded part of Taichung city yesterday, according to Adelaide Now. 

Disorder erupted in the streets as people scrambled to grab up the cash, police said. Some passers-by turned the money over to police, while others pocketed it. 

The man was believed to have thrown out more money on an earlier road trip that started in the country’s capital of Taipei. 

He also burned about $16,500 and had two more sacks of cash, the proceeds from a property sale. 

The taxi driver eventually turned the man in to police. 

Police said the man was thought to have a nervous condition and was not in a normal state of mind.