Man leaves a million bucks at Sydney restaurant

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SYDNEY (AP) - Mamma mia! That's a lot of dough, even for an upscale pizzeria.

Police are looking for the owner of a suitcase "full of money" that was left at the Italian restaurant in Sydney by a mystery customer.

Ten Network television reported the suitcase left at Cafe Marco Tuesday morning contained about 1 million Australian dollars ($1 million) in 50 dollar notes.

But police will only describe the suitcase contents as "a significant amount of cash."

Detective Inspector Ian Pryde told reporters a man around 30 years old wearing surfing shorts and a singlet carried the suitcase into the cafe. He then "seemed to get spooked" and left without the money.

A cafe staff member contacted by telephone told The Associated Press she was too busy with customers to comment.

 

[Deuce]

I would've jacked the suitcase... Its a million bucks!!

 

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Looked like it was a secret meeting type thing you see on TV shows, and in movies.

"bring a million dollars to (fill in the blank) drop it off, and you can have (fill in the blank) back."

 

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Officers arrested a man in connection with the incident Tuesday afternoon, said Senior Constable Chris Nash, a A New South Wales police spokesman. Nash said the man then suffered an unknown medical problem and was taken to a local hospital where he remained under police guard Wednesday.


Nash said detectives probably will have to wait until the man recovers before asking him more questions about the http://www.wfsb.com/story/16098071/man-leaves-stash-of-cash-in-sydney-cafe#Cash.Police wouldn't say whether they think the arrested man is the one who left the case in the cafe.


A worker at the cafe said Wednesday that the man who left the case was "a bit nervous. He was really nervous."


"It's crazy, it's scary. Now we can laugh about it, but yesterday I was scared. I called



the police," she said. She ended a telephone call to serve a customer before a reporter could ask her name, and a subsequent phone message left at the cafe was not immediately returned.


Nash said that if the http://www.wfsb.com/story/16098071/man-leaves-stash-of-cash-in-sydney-cafe#money legitimately belongs to the man it would be returned to him.



If the cash is proceeds from a crime it will likely be forfeited to the government. If the owner of the cash is not found, whoever discovered it could make a claim on it after three months.