Shocking! China: Man showers money from balcony after taking drugs, arrested

A 29-year-old man in China was arrested by police for showering bank notes from the balcony of his house while he was allegedly high on drug called methamphetamine. According to local media reports, seeing rain of bank notes dozens of people left their cars or walked onto the busy road to catch the banknotes.

Police said the 29-year-old was “in a trance” after taking drugs at his home on the 30th floor of a building in Chongqing, in south-western China, when he began throwing cash out of the window to the streets below.

Local media reported the “heavenly rain of banknotes from the sky”, and a video of the 17 October incident has been viewed more than half a million times.

Police were called and the man was taken into custody. The police said in a statement he had been detained for taking drugs and was under investigation and receiving treatment.