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Hidden Cash Guy Hides Dough In Red Angry Birds At The Beach
An adorable red Angry Birds doll (Photo by ohitzanna via the Creative Commons on Flickr)
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The Hidden Cash guy continued to make it rain on Los Angeles this weekend by announcing he’d hidden cash in 36 models of red Angry Birds at the beach.The mysterious benefactor said via his @HiddenCash account that he’d reveal at 11 a.m. at which beach he'd hidden the cash, and that it would include “a few large bills” in each toy bird modeled after the Angry Birds game app:
He went on to gives rules of sorts for today’s drop via a three-part tweet:
“A few things about today's EPIC, gigantic scavenger hunt: 1. It will be kind of like an Easter egg hunt, except instead of eggs, they are... birds, which I guess are eggs that have hatched. Inside each is the original contents plus a few large bills. 2. I will tell you exactly where they birds are at 11 AM. There will be no guesswork for the area, but then you need to find the birds WITHIN that area. 3. Be safe!”
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He then tweeted that the beach drop would be today’s only hidden cash event, and to expect another one tomorrow, “then bye bye LA :(.”
Last night, he posted this creepy tweet previewing the next cash drop:
The @HiddenCash benefactor, said to be between 35 and 45 years old, started the cash drops in San Francisco before moving on to L.A. this weekend. So far, he’s made drops in Burbank, at the Huntington Library and Echo Park, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Update 11:30 a.m.: There's still no word on where the hidden birds are—and that's because the @HiddenCash dude is stuck in traffic, according to his Twitter account:
How do you like L.A. now, @HiddenCash?
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Update 11:45 a.m.: It's in Hermosa Beach, guys! The cash is in Hermosa Beach. Don't trip over any bros as you scurry to find that hidden cash.
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