Airbags can save your life, but they can’t get you out of prison if you use them to stash funny money as one Málaga man found out. Actually, he won’t see the inside of prison, but neither will he be reunited with his cash stash, either.

It was not long after midnight on the 19th of last month when a Guardia Civil patrol from Santa Fe stopped a vehicle on the GR-330 within the municipality of Vegas del Genil. Now, when the officer peered in through the side window to speak to the 48-year-old driver, he noticed something odd – a piece of tinfoil sticking out from beneath the lid of the airbag compartment.

The officer decided to take a closer look and saw that the cover had been tampered with. Gingerly lifting the cover off, he found a packet, wrapped in tinfoil containing 16,000 euros. Warming to the task, he decided to search the rest of the vehicle and there, in the boot, nestling in slumber, was a paper bag containing 103,560 euros. Remembering to search the driver, he also discovered another 1,410 euros in his wallet.

The next step was to ask the driver where the cash came from and what he was doing with it, and, of course, asked for a document from the Tax Office to justify moving that quantity of cash around.

Well his response had the credibility of a Trump Twitter post, so the officers handed back 110 euros to cover the driver’s trip expenses and pocketed… sorry, confiscated the rest.

The money was paid into a special account belonging to the Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda which exists for this purpose… and the odd knees up – just joking!

(News: Vegas de Genil, Vega, Granada, Andalucia)