A MIX-UP with a sandwich bag cost a Glasgow businesssman as much as £8000 when an opportunist thief snatched his cash. 

Joe Harvie, the owner of a junk removal firm based in Maryhill, was coming into work this morning when he accidentally dropped a resealable bag filled with notes in Gairbraid Avenue. 

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He told how the money he had stashed for safekeeping in a food carrier fell on the ground as he crossed the street to enter the key code to enter his office. 

"You couldn't write this stuff," he said.

"It landed on a sandwich wrapper. This guy, who was quite smartly dressed walked past me and took two steps back. 

"I thought he had dropped his sandwich wrapper and I thought he was trying not to litter. 

"I thought the money was safe in my pocket."

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In the bag was money for the firm's cash flow, spending money for an upcoming holiday to the Highlands and money he was to send to the bank. 

Police are now on the hunt for the chancing thief and Joe said they already have them on CCTV.

He added: "The footage is very grainy."

A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: "We received a report of a sum of cash stolen on Gairbraid Avenue around 8.40am on Thursday, July 1.

“Enquiries into the incident are currently ongoing.”