One of my favorite news stories…
Rain of Cash In Car Crash Tempts Poor From Miami
At first, Faye McFadden thought there had been a terrible accident. People were running everywhere, shouting, looking at the ground and picking things up.
Just then, a man ran toward the bus in which she was riding.
”He yelled that there was money falling out of the sky,” Ms. McFadden said on Friday, recalling the incident Wednesday morning in Overtown, one of Miami’s most impoverished neighborhoods. ”Everyone jumped off the jitney — even the driver.”
It was not, as it turned out, manna from heaven.
The bounty that rained on Northwest 17th Street came from a Brink’s truck that had crashed on an overpass above the neighborhood. Part of its $3.7 million load — bags stuffed with bills, food stamps and thousands of rolls of coins — flew out of the armored truck, tumbled down an embankment and into the eager hands of passers-by and rush-hour commuters on Interstate 95. At least $500,000 is still missing.
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