scramble
昨夜、見つけたニュースです。１２月２４日に香港で走行中の現金輸送車の扉が突然開き、道路に散乱した紙幣が人々によって持ち去られました。その金額は報道される度にふくらみ、およそ２億円が行方不明となっています。
香港でのハプニングですが、あえてロシアの英文ニュースのものを使いました。とりあげるのは、“scramble”です。この語はブログでも何度も取り上げられていますが、ここはresulting in a scramble of onlookersという形で用いられ、「…を求めて/…するために≫先を争うこと、大慌て［大急ぎ］（の状況）」という意味を表しています。（『Wisdom英和辞典第三版』三省堂）（野球小僧）
MOSCOW, December 24 (Sputnik) – An armored cash transport vehicle spilled its load of banknotes onto a Hong Kong highway on Wednesday, resulting in a scramble of onlookers grabbing bundles of notes which fell onto the road.
"I saw a lady with 10 of them, easily. She looked like a very regular Hong Kong lady. She had an armful of bricks of cash — it was as much as she could carry. She just disappeared into the depths of Wan Chai," a witness told the South China Morning Post.
"At first people did nothing, then one person went into the road," the man told the newspaper, adding, "You couldn't make it up. There were 20 or 30 people picking up cash from the road on Christmas Eve." A video of the incident posted to the paper's website shows people crouching among stopped cars grabbing money from the tarmac.
According to the police, the van was carrying a total of HK$525 million (US$68 million) in cash, of which HK$35 million was spilled by the van after an accident on the city's Gloucester Road. Law enforcement said that around $20 million has been retrieved so far.
"I would like to take the opportunity to appeal to every member of the public that if they picked up any money to handover to any police officer or any police station as soon as possible," said police superintendent Wan Sui-hung, the SCMP reports.
According to Radio Television Hong Kong, superintendent Sui-hung warned that people who took the money could be facing up to 10 years in jail, but that so far no arrests have been made. The banknotes are said to have been newly printed, and investigators are set to try and trace the trail of the missing cash.
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