Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff,
Speaker 1: which is a podcast about cool people who did cool stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy. I'm a science fiction author,
Speaker 1: a feminist and an activist. And every week I'll be
Speaker 1: telling a new story of rebellion, revolution and you know,
Speaker 1: cool stuff like that to comedians, writers, journalists, and whoever
Speaker 1: else I can convince to listen. For this mini episode,
Speaker 1: I want to tell you about a nine prison break
Speaker 1: from Punta Caritas prison in Montevideo, the capital Duguay. A
Speaker 1: bunch of anarchist bank robbers had just been arrested. They
Speaker 1: had been over in Argentina robbing the rich to raise
Speaker 1: money for revolution. When it got too hot, so they
Speaker 1: went to Uruguay. They made a big score, they got
Speaker 1: caught and they went to prison. Their friends, though, and
Speaker 1: they had a lot of friends. Their friends were like,
Speaker 1: we should get them out. So to raise money for
Speaker 1: the prison break, they you know, robbed more capitalists and
Speaker 1: a nice upstanding Italian couple with their young daughter went
Speaker 1: and purchased a plot of land next to the prison.
Speaker 1: The cops ran a back ground check it all came
Speaker 1: back fine. They built and ran a successful pole depot
Speaker 1: for a year and a half. They were kind to
Speaker 1: their neighbors, they gave good deals to their customers, and
Speaker 1: they were generally well loved. Then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they left, So did nine prisoners. You see you. Over
Speaker 1: that year and a half, in addition to running the
Speaker 1: coal business, they were digging a tunnel, a fifty meter
Speaker 1: tunnel tall enough to stand in, with lights and ventilation,
Speaker 1: which ran right up to the prison yard. Three cars
Speaker 1: were waiting for their newly free friends, and off they went.
Speaker 1: Not a shot fired, perfect jail brick. Which is cool.
Speaker 1: Breaking your friends out of prison is cool. It's cool
Speaker 1: people you know doing cool stuff. Listen to cool people
Speaker 1: who did cool stuff every Monday and Wednesday, starting May two,
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