Strangers Help Man Pick Up Thousands in Lost Money

When an elderly man dropped his cash while coming out of a bank, thousands of dollars went flying. Luckily, the people standing nearby all helped him recover his cash.

By Kathryn Hawkins. Posted on July 29 2008

Last week, in Torrance, California, it started raining money. Or so it seemed to many locals, anyway, after 70-year-old Ludwig Geier stumbled while leaving his bank with an envelope containing several thousand dollars.

Geier’s cash - more than 200 bills - began to scatter in the wind, and landed in a parking lot. It didn’t take long for bystanders to notice the hailstorm of money, but to Geier’s surprise, no one took advantage of his unfortunate accident. Instead, a dozen people quickly got to work retrieving the money for the elderly man, and handed it back to him. Within mere minutes, Geier managed to retrieve about 96 percent of the money he had lost.

“Everyone was helping,” one of Geier’s Good Samaritans, Sean Shepard, told L.A.‘s Daily Breeze. “I’ve never seen that much money floating around in a parking lot, and there was even some going into the street.”

Geier is, of course, extremely grateful for the good deeds of the strangers who helped him gather up his lost money. “I can only say I’m going to put a prayer out for them,” he said. “If I could get them together, I’d buy them dinner and drinks.”

The actions of these kind-hearted strangers showed him that chivalry is still alive and well. “You don’t see that a lot, not in our days,” he said.

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