Man jumps into temple pond for coins

Surprised tourists at a Buddhist temple in Zhejiang province watched as a man jumped into a pond and started scooping up coins that had been tossed into the water as donations.

The man, in his late 30s from neighboring Jiangsu province, was dredging up coins for several minutes at Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou on Monday as thousands of tourists looked on, according to the temple's administration office.

He later explained to police that he had simply "run out of money", according to a local Chinese newspaper.