Rainy money in Cartagena: a Mexican tourist threw up bills at a hotel and people fought to take them

Tickets of 50,000 pesos (about $ 16) flew through the air in Cartagena and sparked madness among the city's residents. Apparently, a tourist, for no apparent reason, threw them from the balcony of the hotel where he was staying in the historic center.

Without warning, a man of unknown identity began to throw tickets from a balcony in the busiest tourist area of ​​the Colombian Caribbean city. Which caused dozens of people who pbaded through the square at the time to gather to look for them.

In a video recorded by one of the witnesses of the event, the man is seen throwing the tickets while people are fighting and pushing each other to catch them. Even, the intervention of a security guard was necessary to control the crowd and avoid an act of violence.

According to the witnesses who spoke with Channel One, the tourist would be of Mexican nationality, was accompanied by a group of people and also launched dollars into the crowd. Although the authorities are investigating the situation, there is no more information about this man, nor about the reasons that led him to Cartagena.

"It seems to me that it would have been nobler for them to come down and give it to any ordinary person that they saw, to be born of the heart to give them (…) It was on one side their pleasure and on the other it was to demonstrate the need of the people, "Gisela Cbadini, a palenquero who attended the event, said at the press.

This is not the first time that such a situation occurs in Colombia. In 2017, in a disco also located in the historic center of Cartagena, a seemingly intoxicated man threw tickets from the balcony and caused the traffic of vehicles blocking the street that generated people who were hoping to catch one.

And in 2013, a couple pitched tickets from the balcony of a tourist apartment building to El Rodadero, a popular seaside resort in Santa Marta. The husbands turned out to be the owners of a major rice cooker in the country.