Drunken German hands out savings to passers-by
08/08/2006 - 16:26:54A man withdrew €13,000 from his account and then started handing out the money to passers-by in a western German town today, police said.
Police in Darmstadt said they were alerted at lunchtime to a man sitting on a bench in front of a bank and handing out notes.
He had the money stuffed into plastic bags and his pockets, and some of it blew away.
Officers took the drunken 63-year-old back into the bank and counted the money.
They said in a statement that he had handed out €1,400, but that he “didn’t care because he had enough.”
Police decided to hold on to the rest of the money temporarily.
They told the man to come back and collect it once he sobered up.
There was no immediate word on why the man, whose name was not released, had decided to hand out his savings.
