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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. How

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Speaker 1: does Zarin? What's up, Elizabeth? You know it's ridiculous, Oh girl,

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Speaker 1: do I? Okay. So there's this movie called The Conqueror.

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Speaker 1: How much you've ever heard of it? Okay? So it

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Speaker 1: stars John Wayne as Mongolian Conqueror. Oh I've actually seen that? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: So it's like a vie. It is known as the

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Speaker 1: deadliest movie ever. It's terrible. Oh yeah, it's definitely bad.

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Speaker 1: You know why I was also deadliest? Well, they filmed

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Speaker 1: it in Nevada. That was supposed to be the desert

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Speaker 1: that's supposed to take place for Central Asia, and the

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Speaker 1: Department of Energy was doing nuclear tests open air above

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Speaker 1: ground nuclear tests. So by night one of the two

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Speaker 1: Then forty six of them died. This includes Agnes Moorehead

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Speaker 1: from Bewitched fame, John Wayne obviously Susan Hey, we're a

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Speaker 1: bunch of the stars of the film. It's considered the

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Speaker 1: deadliest film ever because they filmed on a nuclear testing site.

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Speaker 1: And he also did the same thing with You Are

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Speaker 1: Yellow ribbon apparently, but is that maybe uh, sort of

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Speaker 1: bad mojo from doing yellow Face. That's what I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying is it was a cursed film all the way around.

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Speaker 1: It's bad. It was a ridiculous idea for a film,

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Speaker 1: and a ridiculous place to shoot a film, and a

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Speaker 1: terrible recovery of like you know what happened after? That's crazy?

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Speaker 1: That is you know what that is straight up ridiculous. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. You know what else is ridiculous? But you

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Speaker 1: got one for me. Hit me with it. Bad wigs,

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Speaker 1: getting drunk and wearing bad wigs. Okay, my jam, getting

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Speaker 1: drunk and wearing bad wigs and robbing banks. I have

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Speaker 1: yet to do this. I'm Elizabeth Dutton, and joining me

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Speaker 1: is Zarin Burnett. I'm just letting you know you're joining me.

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Speaker 1: And this is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and

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Speaker 1: outrageous capers, heists, cons It's always murder free and one ridiculous, Zaren, Elizabeth,

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Speaker 1: You and I often find ourselves rooting for criminals who

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Speaker 1: are entertaining and don't hurt anyone. That's yes, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of my motto, my mantra, my jam. If you will

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Speaker 1: I feel like I've hit the jackpot here. Um. This

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Speaker 1: guy's story that I'm gonna tell you today is delicious.

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Speaker 1: It makes me dizzy. I want to tell you, I

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Speaker 1: want to tell you the story about the whiskey robber,

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Speaker 1: Attila and Bruce. I would never have known about this

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Speaker 1: king if it wasn't for listener Alex w emailed us

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Speaker 1: the hot tip. I need to start with a little

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Speaker 1: historical background before we dive in them. Please set the stage,

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Speaker 1: of course, so as you know, the nation of Hungary was,

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Speaker 1: From the sixties to the eighties it was had some

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Speaker 1: like free market introduced into the economy. Um, and it

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Speaker 1: The happiest barrack in the Eastern not the happiest place

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Speaker 1: So he got into a lot of trouble as a kid.

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Speaker 1: When he was seven, he got arrested for quote, climbing

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Speaker 1: the wig like on one of those like mannequin heads.

422
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: He's like cutting the mullid looking at the photos, cutting

423
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: the mull looking at the photo. Okay, now, very perfect,

424
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: perfect son. So that just of course really cheeses off

425
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: the detective. Um. But wait, hold on hockey career. At

426
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: this time, he actually gets named U t s starting goalie.

427
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 1: But he was so stressed out about being caught that

428
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: he started playing really really badly, even for him. In

429
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: a six game stretch, he gave up goals. It's like,

430
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: seasons I could do better than I just lay across

431
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: in front of the net and just take my hits.

432
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: You could just go back and forth post to post

433
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: and do a better job. Just a random luck. When

434
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 1: you gave up twenty three goals in one game, how

435
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 1: many did he score on his own? Just like I

436
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: just knocked this one and I'm tired. I bet I

437
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: bet that some of them were. I need a break.

438
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: Go ahead. So he leads his team to a zero

439
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: to three loss. Um. But let's get back to the criming, right,

440
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: just a little time out On that one March, Attila

441
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: robs another post office gets around six. I'm he's glad.

442
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: He's good at something. Now back at u t E

443
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 1: at the team, they have a new coach and he

444
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: has a kid. The kid's name is Gabby. Gabby orbon

445
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: like Victor, so Gabby is the son of the new coach.

446
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: He's also a teammate because apparently if you if you're related,

447
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: get out there on the ice. Um. He had been

448
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: hanging around Attila because Attila's got money. They don't make

449
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: money on this team, like they make pennies. It's like,

450
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: what you know, I want to hang out with this dude. Um.

451
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: He befriends him, and then in the summer of ninety six,

452
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: Untila finally relents and it's like, all right, let me

453
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 1: tell you my secret, my secret to success wigs. And

454
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: so they're like, let's do this, And there was a

455
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: montage and music and they ran through the streets buying collections,

456
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: draws back the curtain, giant shoes. In August, they robbed

457
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: a post office together. Now, in this case, Attila was

458
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 1: pretty drunk by the time they arrived at the post office.

459
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 1: I like that, like whiskey is his dumbost feather. He's like,

460
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: I don't believe in me, give me a couple of whiskey. Well,

461
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: he shows up drunk and an employee recognizes him immediately,

462
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: and it's also like, you guys, it's a warm sunny day.

463
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: It's a little suspicious that you have raincoats on. So

464
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: these two drunks and raincoats, not three boys in one raincoat.

465
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: Two drunks and each of their own. This is a

466
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: stick up. So the employee calls the cops and it's like,

467
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: we got we got the whiskey robber up in here,

468
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: and he's talking about his his goaltending. The operator thinks

469
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: it's a joke. When they help, we have the whiskey

470
00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 1: robber in this post office. She's like, yeah, you do,

471
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: weren't weren't um, So she tells the employe, look, if

472
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: you want to be serious, call back and hangs up

473
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: on the employee. Well, at the same time, Attila and

474
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: Gabby are like, everybody away from the phone's everybody in

475
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: the corner. This is a stick up. So the phone

476
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: starts ringing and no one answers, and instead of being like,

477
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: oh snap, I think there's something to float at the

478
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: post office, the operators like nothing going on. There must

479
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: be busy. If it was real, you would call back.

480
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: I won't even answer the phone. Ain't got nobody today.

481
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: I come on now. Attila and Gabby get away with

482
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: thirty four thou dollars in that case. Uh. And it

483
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: was after this incident that the press gave Attila the

484
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 1: nickname the Whiskey Robbers. So I guess before they're like,

485
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: you know it was the drunk Yeah, the guy with

486
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 1: the wig and the drink um. And so he gets

487
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: that name because like bars that are near the robberies

488
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,240
Speaker 1: are reporting a disguised man downing drinks right before the

489
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 1: thefts take place, and they're like, there's this guy wearing

490
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: a wig. He came in, he had a bunch of whiskey.

491
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: I don't want to be judging, but you know, and

492
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 1: he's not showing up sober to these bars. There's another

493
00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: reason he's drawing attention to himself because he rolls up

494
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: having pre partied with the Joe camel Bag at home,

495
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: and then it's just like getting loose at the bar.

496
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: He just needs a couple of to top off his energy. Yeah,

497
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: so now he's referred to as the whiskey robber. He's

498
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: high profile baby. So September, the Dynamic Duo, that gruesome tosome.

499
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: They robbed a bank and took just about fifty grand

500
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: a bank. These are they're doing numbers. He's getting pretty good.

501
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 1: November they robbed another bank. He's getting boring at this point.

502
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: They dressed for this robbery. They dressed in wigs and

503
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: trench coats. Keep it fresh. Well, he's he's can't Attila

504
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: wearing a wig, wearing a trench coat, drunk as a skunk.

505
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: Just as as they're about to begin this robbery, Attila

506
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: realizes that he forgot to bring a bag to put

507
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: the money in. He doesn't have his Joe camel bag,

508
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: doesn't even have anything. So he's like hold on. He

509
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: runs to a nearby supermarket and he buys a loaf

510
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: of bread and they put it into bag for him,

511
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: and then he runs to the bank. He goes in.

512
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: They robbed the bank at ninety grand, put it in

513
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: the bag, and he leaves the bread in the safe

514
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: even trade, even trade. What was going on in his

515
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: hockey life? You're wondering enough with the criming, so he's

516
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: good at robbing. How is the goaltending? Well later that evening,

517
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: after that robbery, but the bread robbery and hockey practice,

518
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: he was so drunk at that point that he missed

519
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: like a super easy goal in A frustrated teammate got

520
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: so mad that he hit him in the head with

521
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: his hockey stick. And then the report I read was

522
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: he hit him, to quote so hard that a nail

523
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 1: from Attila's helmet lodged inside his skull. Attila hardly noticed

524
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: a nail from his That's what jumped out, like, great,

525
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: guy's got a nail in his skull, He's pickled. Whatever

526
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,479
Speaker 1: what is going on with a nail in the helmet?

527
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: And they mean like a metal nail, not like a fingernail.

528
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: Right now, like a metal nail went into a skull

529
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: in Soviet Russia nail hammers. You what is going on

530
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: with that that the teammate is so mad at the

531
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: drunk goalie just beat him us and Antila is just

532
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: like sitting there all how drawing. So January robs another

533
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: bank Grand March. This litany is incredible. He robs he

534
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: had another bank. This time they dressed as cops and

535
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: they were like, you know, we found we heard that

536
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: there's some smuggling going on. There's some business. Yeah, sure,

537
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: it's all legit. So they're like, fulled you, we're not cops.

538
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: Were the robbers put it in there? Fifty two grand?

539
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: Off they go. So the cops are rushing to that

540
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: bank and they're already gone. Attila and Gabby went to

541
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,479
Speaker 1: grab lunch. So they got lunch while the cops were

542
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: like descending on the bank like oh my god, he

543
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: hit again, and the people are all traumatized in there.

544
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: So they're grabbing lunch, and then they went to a

545
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: post office on the other side of town, and we're like, look,

546
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: we're dressed for it, we might as well just you

547
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: got a minute, Yeah, what do you think? So they

548
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: like they actually they in this case, they were dressed

549
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: as cops. They changed their they had a costume change,

550
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: so um they put on suits, long wigs and baseball caps.

551
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: So it's like zz top um and they stole twenty

552
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: two grand, so that's a two for those are athletes.

553
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: These are endurance athletes though. The performance this is what

554
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: peak performance looks like. So at the next robbery April,

555
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: he and Gabby only managed to steal about a two

556
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: hundred dollars because the bank had just handed off most

557
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,479
Speaker 1: of its cash to an armored vehicle. I can't win

558
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: them all. Bad timing, kind of like how he is

559
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: on the ice. Um the following month way more money.

560
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: So they've got their outfits on business suits and wigs. Um.

561
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: They stole one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars from

562
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: a Budapest bank. Yeah. Um the bills the police had requested,

563
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: Hey listen, you got a lot of cash on hand,

564
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: let's mark the bills. They're like, sure, they marked the bills.

565
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,399
Speaker 1: The problem was is that banks and post offices didn't

566
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: have an ability to read the marks. They just put

567
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: smiley faces on there, so they were like and no

568
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: one knows to look for it to like, oh look

569
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of smile face on. That's funny. Right. Yeah,

570
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: so they're able to pass the money, no, no problem,

571
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: they can't be tracked. Um Now, Attila, after this huge hall,

572
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: he's like, you know what that was it? That was

573
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: my final bow. Yeah, he's like, but hold on, what's

574
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: going on at the hockey career that year? Despite his

575
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: dedication until it was dropped from the hockey team? What

576
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: this out of all the stuff you told me, this

577
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: is just not that injustice? This is just wrong. How

578
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: did he find out the beatings he's endured. He found

579
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 1: out because he was reading the paper and he saw

580
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: the team's roster and his name wasn't on it. Yeah,

581
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: he did manage to get a spot on the team's

582
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: cross town rival, but the teammates didn't like him and

583
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: it didn't last. Um so December, n right, just a

584
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: couple of months later. Uh, he's They're like, you know what, hey,

585
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: Gabby Gabs, I'm a little short on cash. Let's come

586
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: out of retirement. Let's do this. And they did. They

587
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: came out of retirement and did another job. Now I

588
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,759
Speaker 1: need to take a break. I need to think about this.

589
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: I need to think about hockey. I do you think

590
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: about injustice? And when we come back, I'm going to

591
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: tell you what happens next. Little Attila, I'm gonna take

592
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:25,760
Speaker 1: this damboni for a loop. Okay, So Gabby and Attila,

593
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: out of retirement, back at it again. Uh. They stole

594
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: almost forty four thousand dollars from the same bank that

595
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 1: they robbed the previous May. Boys are back in town.

596
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: This time though he used a gun. That's a one.

597
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: He escalated. He hadn't been doing that, never had to.

598
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: He fired three shots at a surveillance camera had pause

599
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:54,760
Speaker 1: in there. Um. So in February of night they robbed

600
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: another bank, and in that case they told the employees

601
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: they had a bomb. They're getting desperate. But the bomb

602
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: was just two cigars wrapped with transistor radio wire to

603
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: a battery, a bullet cartridge, and the face of a

604
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: digital watch. It's a trust me. Don't touch it. It's fine.

605
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: Don't check. Don't check, guys, don't check. Um. The next

606
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: month they robbed another bank, but Attila then they used

607
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,479
Speaker 1: a tank. This time he's wearing this long wool coat.

608
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: He's wearing a blonde wig and a beret, mixing it up. Glasses,

609
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 1: but he was really distracted because he'd recently broken up

610
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: with his girlfriend. His emotional time him getting dropped from

611
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: the hockey steal in his stealing the wigs he's wearing

612
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: all her. So because he's so distracted, he takes a

613
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 1: lot longer than the three minutes that they usually allotted,

614
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: And by the time they left the entrance outside was

615
00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: surrounded by a group of who do you think I'm

616
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,919
Speaker 1: gonna go with Jehovah's witnesses. No, wait a second, guess

617
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 1: Canadian tourists there for a whiskey thon so close vegetable vendors,

618
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: green grocers, so they there's this to do going on,

619
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: and all the vegetable nearby vegetable vendors surround the outside

620
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 1: and they're like, we're going to apprehend the whiskey robber.

621
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: Pickle peddlers and cucumber pushers trying to chase you down.

622
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: The cops are closing in Attila, he's got the gun.

623
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 1: He runs out and he shoots twice into the air

624
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,839
Speaker 1: and then starts running and all the vendors are chasing him.

625
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 1: They chase the man who fired the gun in there

626
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,240
Speaker 1: like this, well, and the guy in a heavy coat,

627
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: blond wig beret and glasses. It's like a Wes Anderson.

628
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: The green grocers follow him and then everyone goes running by.

629
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: I can see the shot well. A cops starts chasing

630
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: him too, and then with it ed Norton as the

631
00:38:56,719 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: cop yes it was. And then Attila carjack someone and

632
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,760
Speaker 1: takes the car. They go on a high speed chase.

633
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 1: The car's windows get shot out American. He escaped, though

634
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:15,160
Speaker 1: I had no doubt dollars uh. I don't know what

635
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,160
Speaker 1: happened to Gabby. I guess Gabby went with him. Gabby

636
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: was in the wind on this one. Good. Let's check

637
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: back in on the hockey career, because it's not over,

638
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: thank good. I keep hoping that that's going to pull

639
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: him back to a life that is more fulfilling. Well,

640
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: he got his unpaid goalie job back at ut E,

641
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: but he was playing so badly and generally so drunk

642
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: that they told him not to come to practice for

643
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 1: a while. Just counted the game. He had just taken

644
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: up space here. But let's get back to the robberies. January,

645
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: Attila and Gabby they robbed another bank, but guard decided

646
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: to fight him like fist fight. Yeah, like over the toaster,

647
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: that free toaster. You can hate the money, but I'm

648
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 1: keeping the free toaster, he said, debate me. So the

649
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: guard is like grappling with them. He delays them enough

650
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: that he only takes about bucks from the register or

651
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: from the teller sorry, because this is a bank. Um,

652
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: so he gets about bucks. And now you know, these

653
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,359
Speaker 1: two are getting low on money despite all their spending money,

654
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: like well, imagine they're living big, buying first pelts. They're

655
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 1: draped in pelts, uncured. So they decide, okay, you know what, Okay,

656
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: one more bank and then we call it quippause just

657
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: for us. Yeah. Well, they end up getting almost eighty

658
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: thou dollars off this one. But they took so long

659
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: to do it in there that the cops were like

660
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: they wanted the moment to laugh. Yeah, the cops were

661
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: on their way. The cops were almost there. Attila got away,

662
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: Gabby did not. Yeah, and the coach knows who hangs

663
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: out with his boy. Yeah, Attila doesn't know where Gabby is,

664
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 1: but he knows he doesn't have a lot of times.

665
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: He makes a break for it, and so he gets home.

666
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: He decides he's going to leave the country or just

667
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: you know, go to the mattresses as they say, right, yes,

668
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: that's what they do say. Help me check my crimical life.

669
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,279
Speaker 1: Who does he take with him when he goes on

670
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: the run? Um the I don't know, the enforcer from

671
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:25,919
Speaker 1: the hockey team. He took his Burmese mountain dog named Don.

672
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: I was close named Don Don. This is the first

673
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: mentioned of the dog in the coverage of it is

674
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: this And it's like, wait, hold on, why is this

675
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: not the first thing that's ever told about him. I

676
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: have a Burmese mountain dog named Don. Um so he

677
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: and Don took off and sped to the Romanian border.

678
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: I wonder what Don Don is named after. We're in

679
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 1: the late nineties and tiny bubbles, the tiny bubbles. It's

680
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: definitely not Don Johnson. It's probably not Donald could be

681
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 1: I mean it is Eastern Bloc. Yeah, but it's the

682
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: late nineties. Yeah, so I'm thinking, like, you know, and

683
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 1: it's probably not Donald Duck, probably not Donald Sutherland. Maybe

684
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: he missheard Dom DeLuise. There you go. I like that

685
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: he named his talk after Tom Deelwise, but he missheard it. Yeah,

686
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: uh so he uh it was actually a sports journalist

687
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: who first outed Attila publicly. Well, he figured, like, okay,

688
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: this robbery went down. I've been noticing that the goalie

689
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: is rich and he didn't show up. And he didn't

690
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: show up. There was a robbery today and he almost

691
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: got caught. And now, hold on a second. So he

692
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: starts like clocking all the stuff. Attila makes it to

693
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: the Romanian border. Um, but the guards were all waiting

694
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: for him. He tried to go over on the road.

695
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 1: He goes on the road and he shows up with

696
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,399
Speaker 1: his passport. He's like coming to you know, don show

697
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 1: your passport, um, don want to see the hometown. Just

698
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: homesick um. So Attila immediately confesses to all of the robberies, uh,

699
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: twenty six of them at this point. And he even

700
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,399
Speaker 1: told him like, these are the disguises that I wore.

701
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: Here's my look book, Here's how much I took. He

702
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: had laid it all out in all at this point,

703
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: he'd taken about six dred thousand dollars. And that's like

704
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: if you're exchanging the exchange rates for forens dollars um.

705
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: Over a thousand people stepped forward to adopt don. I

706
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:38,360
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. I'll taked on um. Attila

707
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: spent the next six months in a Budapest jail awaiting

708
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: his charges. He was split down the middle. Um. He

709
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: gave a bunch of interviews when he was in jail,

710
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,800
Speaker 1: including to criminalis Um and that just like fortified his

711
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: whiskey robber pathology and made him a total folk hero

712
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: because he wasn't hurting people. It was just you know. Um. July,

713
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: they finally formally charge him. So besides the robberies, he

714
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: was accused of attempted murder because of the fire and

715
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: the gun uh and he um. You know it's bad

716
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,439
Speaker 1: to fire guns around vegetable vendors. They're very sensitive people,

717
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 1: are you could have bruised the cabbage. Um. The morning

718
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: of July, he had this you know, usual routine. He's

719
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: led outside to the jail's exercise facilities. Zaren, I want

720
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: you to picture it. I'm going I'm going for to

721
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: come here. Attila is out in the yard. It's a

722
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: hot day. He's wearing heavy jeans and a long sleeve shirt.

723
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 1: At this prison, each inmates given a small private space

724
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: to work out in. There's a door that locks, but

725
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 1: the space is open to the sky. The guard locks

726
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: the door. Attila reaches under his clothes and pulls out

727
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: a rope that he's made from sheets, shoe paces, and towels.

728
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: He scales the wall, and just as he suspected would

729
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: be the case, there's no one in the guard tower

730
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: looking form, no one, no one on on watch. He

731
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: crosses the interior courtyard to the jail's administration building. Now,

732
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 1: his plan was to find an unlocked office on either

733
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: the first or second floor and then pop out the

734
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: window lower himself down with this amazing rope that he

735
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,840
Speaker 1: has crafted. Um, but he hears people on those floors,

736
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: so he has to go up to the fourth floor.

737
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: Waight up to the fourth like on the outside of

738
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: the building. No, no, no, he's inside, and he's like,

739
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: I got to get to the outside of the jails

740
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: and find a window. Well, he has to go up

741
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: to the fourth floor. Um, the rope not long enough,

742
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: but you know, he didn't have a whole lot of options. Uh,

743
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: So he descends nearly fifty ft to the ground, severely

744
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:56,240
Speaker 1: sprains both ankles, and then just rips his palms to shreds.

745
00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: Like he just gets mess. He's basically just sliding down

746
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: a rope with his hands, taking all the s off

747
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: yea like shoe lace rope um. It was the first

748
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: time anyone had ever escaped from this jail before. So

749
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: with the help of a contact, he found an apartment

750
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: in Budapest. I don't know which side to hide out

751
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: in um, but first he had to celebrate with a

752
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: couple of beers. You know. He goes to a bar

753
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: and goes in the bathroom, gets rid of the clothes

754
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 1: you've been wearing, shaves his face, and then the bartender

755
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: like sees him and it's like, hey, are you a

756
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: whiskey robber shrugs. He's like, I get that a lot. Meanwhile,

757
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: good non answer at eleven am, because this is like

758
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: in the early and the first in the morning where

759
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: he's getting his workout. At eleven am, they put Budapest

760
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: on an emergency lockdown and it was the largest man

761
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 1: hunt in post communist Eastern Europe's history at this point. Yeah. So,

762
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: not long after his escape, his attorney makes a statement

763
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: and he says that he wants to an o ounce

764
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: that Attila would be at the center of an advertising

765
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 1: campaign for a new energy drink. Did I just have

766
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 1: a stroke? I was saying you're listening to you, and

767
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 1: I did none of that. Mads tense. So instead of

768
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: saying I've asked my client to turn himself, this is

769
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 1: a great misunderstanding, He's like, I'm glad you were all

770
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: gathered here today. A really important announcement. I want to

771
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: tell you about a new drink called Attila Pow. It's

772
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 1: a very rare brand partnership. It's there and he says, look,

773
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: promotional t shirts, buttons, souvenirs, they're already in production. An

774
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: alcoholic is the precursor to like vodka and Red Bull exactly.

775
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: It goes really well with whiskey. So they did. They

776
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: had all these promotional things in place, and there was

777
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: a partnership with like a Western European manufacturer and they're

778
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: going to distribute it. Um. So you know the attorney

779
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: is doing that. He obviously has the best attorney possum.

780
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: There's also a reward of one million four ins. That's

781
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: like about so for anyone who wants to help catch him,

782
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: Red Bull gives you wigs. Sorry, I was just thinking

783
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: I just need to rest in that from it, and

784
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 1: that was great. Um. So there's this one million fourans

785
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: reward for any help in catching him. Hungarians uninterested. They're like,

786
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: we're not helping you with this. Look what you you

787
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: bunched this up? Do I look like a snitch? Yeah?

788
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: Why you got to insult me? They're like chugging their

789
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,879
Speaker 1: Attila juice and just looking like, look somewhere else. Pal

790
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 1: Attila calculated that he'd need between eighty five thousand and

791
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 1: a hundred and ten thousand dollars to start a new

792
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: life somewhere else, and he was considering Brazil. Always a

793
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: good choice, right, Argentina maybe so um, he didn't have

794
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 1: that kind of money. So what does he do? Steals it? Yeah,

795
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: end of July robs a bank. So he's on the run.

796
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: He robs a bank the best time to rob. And

797
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: my favorite is that he's like, Okay, everyone knows who

798
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: I am. I need this money. I'm going to go

799
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: back to a bank I've robbed before. I like the

800
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: comfort of it. They'll probably respect me. You know what

801
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 1: I do. They know what I'm working with. So he

802
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: goes in to this bank that he'd robbed previously, and

803
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: you know, they're just oh godly, and so he's like,

804
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: you know, can you heal your money? Open the safe

805
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: but the safe had been moved since he'd been there last,

806
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: so it was very confusing for him. And he was drunk.

807
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: He allegedly yells, you know who I am. I have

808
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: nothing to lose. I'm talking about care. He was only

809
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: able to get before he escaped. And how did he escape.

810
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: He swam across the Danube to an island to evade

811
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: the police, across which divides Buddha. And there we go.

812
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 1: September does it again. He gets, he buys a moped

813
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,840
Speaker 1: and he drives the mop head to the bank. But

814
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: he's him murk. He drank an entire bottle of whiskey,

815
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: and he was so drunk that when he walked in,

816
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: the tellers started laughing. He's drooling, and he's like, I

817
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: can only keep one eye open. He's like, listen, I

818
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:21,760
Speaker 1: love you guys so much. Don't give me the money please.

819
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: He only got two sixty bucks out of this one,

820
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: and the cops were like, you know, that's less than

821
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: the price of the scooter. That you've forgotten the parking lot,

822
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: and that you left your helmet on. He left the

823
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:40,280
Speaker 1: keys in the moped. Everything he left the moped, keys, helmet, whatever,

824
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: So he gets less than that's worth. He's like, all right,

825
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: October rolls around him, gonna try it again, different bank.

826
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: He wears a baseball hat and jacket and brand new loafers.

827
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:52,320
Speaker 1: You know, it's like your first day of school and

828
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: you just want to get fitted um the shoes, though

829
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:57,800
Speaker 1: they sliced the back of his ankles so badly that

830
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,360
Speaker 1: he had to abort the mission. He it back to

831
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: his apartment and he had to let his feet heal.

832
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 1: He's just like got his toad season some ice and

833
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: he's like, we should I should have broken these in.

834
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 1: Really I didn't think that through. He probably forgot to

835
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 1: like sand down roughen up the souls to these loafers

836
00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: and sliding around. He's walking around his house and his

837
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: ice skates and don't hurt. A week later, he gives

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Speaker 1: himself a week to rest up. October eighteenth, he gets drunk.

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Speaker 1: He enters a bank. They're about fifteen customers. They're about

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Speaker 1: fifteen customers in there. He forgets again to put the

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Speaker 1: clothes sign on the door. So by the time the

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00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: robberies in progress, forty new people have entered, singing closing

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Speaker 1: time time. Do you give me all the money you

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Speaker 1: guys that deserves an arrest. Um. It took him sixteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: That's a long time, but he got two dollars. He

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Speaker 1: got away, yeah, well kind of yeah. He leaves right

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Speaker 1: when the cops are getting there, and he would have

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00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: been they would have gotten there sooner, but the two

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Speaker 1: separate police cars got an unrelated accidents on the way over,

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Speaker 1: and so he gets out the back. He's outside, he's running,

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Speaker 1: he's looking for a place to hide. He jumps um

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Speaker 1: into a nearby back yard. He jumps a fence, but

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Speaker 1: he falls head first over the fence and he breaks

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Speaker 1: two of his fingers and knocks himself unconscious. So he

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Speaker 1: spent the night in the yard and the next morning

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Speaker 1: he gets but he's wakes up unconscious, Yes, and like

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Speaker 1: a dog lookscept sniffs on him, peas on him, goes

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Speaker 1: back inside. He goes back to his apartment and the

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Speaker 1: next morning he thought he got away with it, but

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Speaker 1: in the whole kerf fluffle, he dropped his phone card

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Speaker 1: and police were able to trace a call to his

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00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: Transylvanian apartment owner, who was in the process of getting

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00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: Attila a new passport, and they figured out where he

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Speaker 1: was hiding. So October Attila is cooking his friend the

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Speaker 1: thank you dinner, thank you for being a friend, and

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Speaker 1: the Budapest police arrive. Um, they arrest him. He had

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Speaker 1: been on the lamp for a hundred and nine days

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Speaker 1: at this point, and so in all over the course

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Speaker 1: of six years, he committed twenty nine successful robberies, one unsuccessful.

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Speaker 1: Um he stole around one point nine million four iNTS,

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00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: which is about UM eight hundred and forty thousand dollars

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00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:40,520
Speaker 1: in exchange rate in today would be almost one point

873
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Speaker 1: five million dollars UM. Sewing all that drunk. Yeah, like

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00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: other bank robbers just must hear this story and just

875
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 1: hang their heads. He was just consistent. It was like

876
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 1: trying to get on the hockey team. He's consistent. He's

877
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: just gonna keep hammering at it. Just showed up, success, success,

878
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: showing up. So but here he gets arrested. They're not

879
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: going to put him back in the jail. Instead, they

880
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 1: housed him in a government building. Quote in a special

881
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 1: all glass cage built five years earlier for the country's

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00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: most notorious serial killer, Magda Marinko, a convicted butcher of

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00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,800
Speaker 1: four Wow, So they actually put him in like a

884
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: life size whiskey ball. They put him in like a

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00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:22,440
Speaker 1: bond villain or a life sized whiskey. They poured him

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00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: on in Um, he's licking the bottom of it. He

887
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: was charged with sixty counts of robbery. He was charged

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00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: with attempted murder. He was charged with violations of personal

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00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: freedom for the people that he temporarily held against their will.

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00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 1: Dimly charged with the abuse of a green grocer. Yes,

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00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 1: he played guilty to all the robberies, and he was

892
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: mad though he was mad about attempted murder. He's like,

893
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:48,000
Speaker 1: I didn't aim that at any It was just you know,

894
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,359
Speaker 1: with all this booze, right is livers all who um

895
00:54:54,040 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 1: he The trial lasted six months. There were seventy witnesses, everyone,

896
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:05,840
Speaker 1: everyone turned up for it, and despite asking the judge

897
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:09,240
Speaker 1: for leniency, in December of two thousand he was sentenced

898
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: to fifteen years in a maximum security prison. And that's

899
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 1: more than at that point what murders were getting. Um.

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00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 1: He was acquitted on the attempted murder charges, but found

901
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 1: guilty on forty six robbery charges. The prosecution and the

902
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,320
Speaker 1: defense both appealed to the Hungarian Supreme Court, like no

903
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: one's happy here. There are no winners. The court like

904
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: they agree prosecutions appealing, like, yeah, damn it, give me

905
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 1: another shot. Well, I guess because they wanted the attempted murder.

906
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: The court is like, you know what, No, we're going

907
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:40,839
Speaker 1: to acquit him of the attempted murder. But let's put

908
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 1: two more years on this. Let him steal. He won't.

909
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:48,719
Speaker 1: He's drunk. He got out of prison in January. Welcome back,

910
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,840
Speaker 1: and he is going to hunt me down. And he

911
00:55:52,040 --> 00:55:55,240
Speaker 1: was released early for being for good behavior. And today

912
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: he works in ceramics. He learned how to, you know,

913
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: throw pottery in prison. He sells his pottery at art

914
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:07,760
Speaker 1: fairs and around hungry and he does workshops. He's also

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00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,520
Speaker 1: on Instagram. Can I get some of his well, he's

916
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: You can buy his stuff through Instagram. His handle is

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Speaker 1: at t E Underscore r E A L Underscore v

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Speaker 1: I s z k I S the real VIC. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not smart enough to know the how

920
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: to say the last word. Um, you can buy his wares.

921
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,760
Speaker 1: I want a mug. He does these ceramic fake whiskey bottles.

922
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's does he sign him? Can I get

923
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: like a custom piece? I bet? I bet what's your

924
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: ridiculous takeaway on this, Oh man, my ridiculous takeaway. Look

925
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: what you know a wig can do for a man's confidence?

926
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 1: You know this. You put him on a hockey ice,

927
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: couldn't even stand up. You give him a wig all

928
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 1: of a sudden, and he's like, you know what, Suddenly,

929
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: now I can do the rhymes that have only dreamed

930
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 1: of six Sampson. Yeah, exactly. So you know you care

931
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:06,280
Speaker 1: about a man who's having a little bit of a problem,

932
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:07,919
Speaker 1: Maybe get him a wig, Get him a fright wig

933
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 1: about fun, mix it up, not just one wig. If

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00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, get him some whiskey. Let's just try

935
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Speaker 1: it all. I think Attila is the apex ridiculous criminals

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Speaker 1: so far in our young show. Really well, he doesn't

937
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: hurt people. He don's silly disguises. He does stuff like

938
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: rob the same place twice, or rob a place because

939
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: they messed up his travel arrangement. He has a ridiculously

940
00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: unhealthy relationship with alcohol. He can't play hockey, but somehow

941
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 1: also plays it professionally. Uh. He is the living embodiment

942
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: of my grandma's advice of act like you know, and

943
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: he just bungles his way to success. Plus he gets

944
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: extra points for owning a dog and naming that dog

945
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: don because human names for dogs. That's the way to go.

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00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: You've made your case. Thank you. That's my takeaway. That's excellently.

947
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: I'm done here. I'm over here, sweat dripping delicious, right

948
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: are you dizzy? Dizzy, delicious and drunk? It's amazing. Thank you,

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00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you all, thank you, thank you, thanks you.

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Speaker 1: With the academy. Um, that's it. So you can find

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Speaker 1: us online at Ridiculous Crime on both Twitter and Instagram.

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00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: Do you have a tip for us about a ridiculous

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00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: crime you'd like to hear about. Do you want to

954
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: confess to a ridiculous crime? And when I say like

955
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: a crime crime, give it to me, give me good crime? Uh?

956
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: Stuff that like you're going to confess it and pray

957
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: I don't pass it on to the authority. Yeah. Like

958
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: if you and your grandfather once I had like a

959
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: pot field and then you had to rob a bank

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00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: to be able to afford to get the pot field market,

961
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: that's a ridiculous that's no no one dead, no one hurt,

962
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 1: but ridiculous. But like, legitimately you could have been arrested.

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Speaker 1: Email at ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com. Tune in

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Speaker 1: next time. Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and

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00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: Zarin Burnett, produced and edited by Dave Kusten. The Transylvanian

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Speaker 1: Terror researches by Austrian pelp magn Marissa Brown. The theme

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Speaker 1: song is by Hungarian hustler Thomas Lee and Romanian renegade

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