Lost wallet blows tornado of cash onto Regina road

Money may not grow on trees, but in Regina, it was blowing in the wind this week.

A $20 bill smacked the windshield of a driver on Great Plains Road on Thursday, the CBC reported, and when he pulled over, he found a tiny tornado of bills whirling on the side of the road.

A more foolish person might have looked to the sky and and requested just a few more green bills for that new car, but this good Samaritan collected the fluttering cash, amounting to more than $500, and he found the wallet it fell out of too, according to the broadcaster.

The driver dropped off the cash at an RCMP detachment and officers used the identification in the wallet to find the owner, who was immensely thankful for the good deed. He had placed the wallet on the back of a trailer hitched to his vehicle while he paid for gas, according to the CBC, and then forgot about it and drove off, sending a burst of cash into the air.

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The RCMP said he had so much cash because he had recently returned from shopping in the U.S.

In February, a Brinks truck in Salem, New York hit a costly bump on the road that sprinkled $11,000 in coins and bills out of its holdings. A driver following behind, Pat Wesner, described how the money "sprayed out like a halo with the sunshine."

Wesner called 911 and picked up the money, which was returned to Brinks.

A Brinks crash on Highway 11 in Northern Ontario last year spilled about $3 million in loonies and twoonies, which authorities collected with an industrial magnet.