Tis the season to be merry!
Bloomington police cited a 29-year-old man for disorderly conduct for tossing 1,000 dollar bills over an upper floor railing at the Mall of America.
Serge Vorobyov, of Apple Valley, admitted throwing the money Friday as a choir performed "Let it Snow." He was cited and released at the scene. Vorobyov said he also was ordered not to go into the mall for a year.
He said he's going through a divorce and lost his car-hauling business and hoped the positivity of throwing the money would come back to him. He argues he was just spreading holiday cheer.
"I wanted to do some sort of pay-it-forward kind of thing," he said Sunday.
He invited his estranged wife to try to win her back but she didn't show up, he said.
Vorobyov said he started tossing his "last $1,000" from the fourth floor and continued while going down the escalator.
He had stamped the bills with his YouTube address, and on his Facebook page he called the event a publicity stunt. When asked why he wanted the publicity, he said he wanted his cat back from his estranged wife.
More: Pioneer Press
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