Oregon man, Colin Davis McCarthy, drains his family’s bank account and tosses $200,000 out of his car onto highway to “bless others

Oregon man drains his family’s bank account and tosses $200,000 out of his car onto highway to “bless others.

The money that rained down on Interstate 5 in Carlsbad on Friday fell out of the back of an armored truck after its doors popped open. Videos of the mayhem soon spread on Instagram and TikTok. 

“Everyone stopped on the freeway to get money off of the freeway. This is literally insane,” one excited woman can be heard saying. 

It seemed like a dream come true for the opportunistic commuters — until the cops showed up.

Two of the people who scraped up some cash accidentally locked themselves out of their car amid the chaos and have now been arrested, California Highway Patrol says. CHP has plenty of photos of others, too, who may soon regret their part in the scene. 

“It’s not your money,” California Highway Patrol Sgt. Curtis Martin said at a news conference, warning that anyone found to have taken the money could face criminal charges. A man’s family says he drained their joint bank account by withdrawing stacks of $100 bills and then proceeded to throw the cash out his car window on an Oregon highway.

Collin Davis McCarthy, 38, rained money on the residents of Eugene on Tuesday as he discarded the cash around 7pm to ‘bless others with gifts of money.’

Dozens scoured the sides of I-5, some even bringing flashlights along to help them find the precious paper bills at night, in hopes of getting ‘blessed’ with some spending money.

‘It’s hundred-dollar bills floating around and I’m like: “What!?” So my boyfriend and I decided to go one way, he goes the other way and so far I’ve found 300 dollars!’ an unidentified woman told KEZI 9.  

Despite the joyous occasion for bystanders, McCarthy’s family has now accused of him of leaving them broke to pull off the stunt.

During a conversation with one of McCarthy’s relatives, OSP said they learned that the man had allegedly drained his family’s shared bank accounts ahead of the stunt, according to KEZI.

McCarthy was not criminally charged, though Andrews said officers did consider the option, per KEZI’s report. “He could have been charged in a situation like this for danger being created because of his actions — disorderly conduct, potentially reckless endangering, but most likely disorderly conduct,” Andrews said, according to the outlet.

Andrews said he had not heard of an official request by the family to recoup the money.

But he did say receiving a call for money being thrown onto the interstate was one of the most unique he’d received over the course of his career in law enforcement.

“It’s a very strange call,” he said. “I’ve been doing this roughly 15 years, and I cannot recall anything even remotely similar.”