It’s Literally Raining Money: $100 Notes Fall From The Sky On Perth Freeway

An Australian $100 note and a set of gold measuring scales form part of a public display at the Reserve Bank of Australia office in Sydney January 16, 2003. The commodity-based currencies of Australia, New Zealand and Canada have breezed past larger rivals and are exected to appreciate through 2003 as investors pile in to seize the rewards of steady economic expansion. Reuters/Tim Wimborne

It rained money in Perth — literally! On Wednesday evening, Mitchell Freeway motorists were surprised and delighted to see $100 notes falling from the sky, and no one knew who made it rain banknotes or how.

According to the West Australian, the bills appeared to fall from the sky over the freeway, where motorists who were parked in the southbound emergency lane ran to the road to catch some of the unexpected financial blessing. After the initial excitement, some of those who caught the falling $100s decided to return their catch to the police.

Marylands resident Viswa Kirsz was one of those fortunate to witness the so-called phenomenon. Her car was starting to break down around 9:30 p.m. when she saw cars swerving and pulling over. She thought she was entering the twilight zone. People were running on to the freeway to grab cash.

“It was the most surreal thing that’s ever happened to me,” she recalled to the paper, adding that there were hundreds of $100 bills that were falling from the sky. Although she also took a couple of the notes, she decided to surrender her catch to the police.

“I handed it in because it wasn’t my money,” Kirsz said. The police then took down her name and number. Another woman also surrendered $700 from the cash rain to the authorities, who were also baffled about the rain.

A spokesman from the West Australian Police confirmed that it “literally rained money.” The rep told news.com.au a number of people handed over money from the incident to police officers but refused to reveal exactly how much money was surrendered. Investigations are ongoing to locate the owner of the cash.

This isn’t the first time money literally rained on the highway. Just this February, the same occurrence happened in Kuwait. Footage showing pedestrians and motorists trying to grab as many falling banknotes as they could was uploaded online.

The husband of the woman who pulled over and filmed the money fall said it was “raining money.” He was quoted by Metro as saying, “It was 500 AED [$175], which is worth quite a lot of was a lot of money. A lot of people were getting out of their cars to grab this. It doesn’t happen every day. Everyone was amazed this was happening.”