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Article: Money rains down in Torrance
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- July 22, 2008
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Last week was rough for many South Bay bank customers, but when
it comes to losing cash, Ludwig Geier made out pretty well Monday.
While leaving a Torrance bank with an envelope stuffed with
several thousand dollars cash in hand, the 70-year-old stumbled,
sending 200 or so bills into a strong wind and all over a Sepulveda
Boulevard parking lot, he said.
"It was gone in no time," Geier said. "I had flip-flops on and
couldn't run that fast."
But almost immediately, about a dozen bystanders rushed to the
Rancho Palos Verdes resident - not to pocket the wafting cash, but
instead to help Geier retrieve it.
"People ran around and helped collect the money," he said. "They
were very good. Kids and ...