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It literally rained money on Singapore's Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE) on Monday evening (3 August) when about RM150,000 worth of RM50 notes went flying from an unsuspecting motocyclist's unzipped bag
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What happened next is a no-brainer, really. Several motorists stopped by the side of the road and rushed to pick up as many RM50 notes as they could, to the extent of ignoring oncoming traffic to get to the ones scattered in middle of expressway.
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It was pretty much chaos as cars were forced to slow down to avoid hitting those people, leading to traffic congestion along the four-lane expressway
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However, bus passengers aboard SMRT bus service 966 could only watch wistfully as their bus driver drove through the commotion, refusing to stop for them to alight and grab some of the money
Some level-headed ones preferred not to get into the action, citing safety concerns and the possible legal consequences from picking money from unknown sources off the road
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According to lawyer James Ow Yong of Kalco Law, pocketing the money could be considered an offence on the grounds of "dishonest misappropriation of property or fraudulent possession of property"
The money is said to have belonged to a moneychanger from Johor Baru who was on his way to meet a client in Orchard Road, Singapore. The 24-year-old, who was riding a motorcycle, did not realise that the bag carrying the money was not zipped.
By the time he got back to the scene, he only managed to retrieve a single RM50 note.
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