Indonesian drops cash from plane

[robbiehay1]

An Indonesian businessman has scattered 100 million rupiah ($10,700; £5,406) in banknotes from a plane to promote his new motivational book.


Tung Desem Waringin said he would rather share money for a promotional campaign with people who needed it.


His plane flew over a sports field in Serang city, 60km (40 miles) west of Jakarta, dropping four loads of bills of small denomination.


Crowds had been gathering after rumours of the stunt spread on Saturday.
Mr Tung, 42, admitted his scheme was a little "crazy", but said he wanted to create "a rain of money" over Jakarta.


He had been refused permission to conduct the flight over the capital amid security concerns.

Millions of Indonesians live below the poverty line and distributions of free food and aid regularly draw large crowds.

[george]

Wow thats crazy :D Wish I was there

[Sugaree]

That really shows how generous people should be.

[Gavin]

Hmm 5k, I think i know what i would do with that :)

[george]

And what WOULD you do with that money Gavin? :D

[Triple7]

I wonder if the people maintained some sense of order on the field or if it was a brutal free-for-all.

[Techno Monster]

I bet it was a Free for all, after all, it was MONEY.

[Triple7]

Yes, but with probably all of the fielders being poor, it would have been nice if there was some sort of sharing and civility.

[japanman]

How dumb can you get the man had generosity but he definatly has no commen sense i bet children, homeless ppl and others died that day imagine bieng in crowded place were money hungrey ppl are trampling over everything for the money.

they probably attacked eacother for the money

i say it again that man was dumb

[notsure101]

well at least he though of the less fortunate