[Faline]

A shocked underground worker found a cheque for $2million (£1.2million) on a train in Spain.

The employee spotted the Bank of America cheque in a wallet, which had been stuffed between two doors, at a repair depot in Madrid.

It is thought thieves had emptied the wallet of cash but left the cheque, thought to belong to a 49-year-old Californian man.

Worker Emilio Guerra also found a driving licence and credit cards in the wallet which he handed over to his manager.

‘We were shocked,’ depot shift manager Jose Manuel del Cura told El Pais.

‘We had to count the zeros many times because we just couldn’t believe it. It’s incredible that there are people who have so much money and others so little.’

The wallet was later handed over to police who are trying to track the man down.

‘We have his name. We’re trying to locate this person,’ said a police spokesman

‘But we won’t just hand it over. We have to verify that the origin of the money is not illicit.’

[kellyhound]

probably illegal money.

[Megamel29]

I saw comments where some people were suggesting that maybe the owner of the business wrote the check to himself when he started his business in the hopes that he would be able to cash it on that date.

[alyjo07]

[Spiffyfable]

When the bank teller asks, "How would you like that back", reply "Pennies Please"

[Sharon]

Quite the find

[elwood741]

It appears that the account holder IR Press Inc is the parent corporation of a real estate group called The Guting Group aka Team Guting, headed by Bill Guting. They are a real estate firm in California. So good possibility the check is legit. Although the company appears a bit "get rich quick-y"

[Hvergelmir]

Originally Posted by Spiffyfable ↗

When the bank teller asks, "How would you like that back", reply "Pennies Please"

We don't have pennies in Canada.

[Blewvane]

I would have found a way to cash it, then i'd spend the rest of my life living on a tropical island in the Pacific getting blow jobs from naked native girls and sipping iced tea.