Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash

This is the moment a tourist dances along a Colombian street throwing wads of cash in the air as frenzied locals follow him and fight over the money.

The strange incident took place in the resort city of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast in the Colombian Department of Bolivar on 25th November.

The video shows the man walking next to a young woman carrying a loud stereo as a crowd follows behind.

The unnamed man turns around and throws banknotes in the air as locals push and shove to grab the fallen banknotes.

He continues to dance along the street and nonchalantly throws another wad of cash in the air.

Adolfo Palacios, a local photographer who witnessed the scene, told Newsflash he was leaving a supermarket when he saw a group of people following the man.

Palacios said: “He was accompanied by two women, one of them had a stereo and the other one was holding a mobile phone recording everything.

“I know he was a tourist because he was speaking English with the girls and was wearing a bracelet typical in tourist hotels.”

Palacios said the strange man threw banknotes of COP 2,000 (GBP 0.41 ) and 1 US (GBP 0.75 ) into the air on at least four separate occasions.

He added: “I do not know who he was or why he did it, but he kept on doing the same thing for a while. In the end, I had to return to the supermarket.”

The local authorities have not commented on the incident.

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