Lost grandpa carrying around PHP1.5M spotted in EDSA

PHOTO: Twitter/DZMM TeleRadyo via ABS-CBN News
PHOTO: Twitter/DZMM TeleRadyo via ABS-CBN News

Carrying around a huge amount of cash can be unsafe, but this senior citizen was miraculously able to pull it off.

A 91-year-old grandpa was safely returned to his relatives after he was spotted by police authorities carrying around bundles of cold, hard cash in EDSA, Mandaluyong City.

According to the police report the grandpa had with him 300 pieces of dollar bills worth PHP1.3 million and peso bills worth PHP276,000. He was starting to attract a crowd of people when police authorities began to notice him.

The grandpa explained that he wanted to use the money to bet on a cockfight. Authorities said that his statements were incoherent, ABS-CBN News reports.

The police were able to contact the grandpa’s family using the license and IDs found in his pockets.

The grandpa wasn’t able to recognize the people who picked him up, but they were able to prove that they were his relatives.



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