WEBVTT - Whiskey Robber, Take My Mind: Attila Ambrus 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.000 Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio. How 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:07.480 does Zarin? What's up, Elizabeth? You know it's ridiculous, Oh girl, 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.640 do I? Okay. So there's this movie called The Conqueror. 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:13.760 How much you've ever heard of it? Okay? So it 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:20.560 stars John Wayne as Mongolian Conqueror. Oh I've actually seen that? Yeah, okay, 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.760 So it's like a vie. It is known as the 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.640 deadliest movie ever. It's terrible. Oh yeah, it's definitely bad. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.280 You know why I was also deadliest? Well, they filmed 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.360 it in Nevada. That was supposed to be the desert 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.879 that's supposed to take place for Central Asia, and the 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:37.920 desert that they filled it in was right where the 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.720 Department of Energy was doing nuclear tests open air above 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:47.000 ground nuclear tests. So by night one of the two 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:52.519 d and twenty cast members had contracted cancer. What and uh? 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.720 Then forty six of them died. This includes Agnes Moorehead 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:00.040 from Bewitched fame, John Wayne obviously Susan Hey, we're a 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.000 bunch of the stars of the film. It's considered the 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.720 deadliest film ever because they filmed on a nuclear testing site. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:07.000 And he also did the same thing with You Are 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:11.800 Yellow ribbon apparently, but is that maybe uh, sort of 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.640 bad mojo from doing yellow Face. That's what I'm just 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.560 saying is it was a cursed film all the way around. 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.320 It's bad. It was a ridiculous idea for a film, 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.520 and a ridiculous place to shoot a film, and a 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.759 terrible recovery of like you know what happened after? That's crazy? 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.600 That is you know what that is straight up ridiculous. Yeah, 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.120 that's ridiculous. You know what else is ridiculous? But you 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.480 got one for me. Hit me with it. Bad wigs, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.320 getting drunk and wearing bad wigs. Okay, my jam, getting 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.319 drunk and wearing bad wigs and robbing banks. I have 0:01:43.400 --> 0:02:05.800 yet to do this. I'm Elizabeth Dutton, and joining me 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.000 is Zarin Burnett. I'm just letting you know you're joining me. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.960 And this is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:23.400 outrageous capers, heists, cons It's always murder free and one ridiculous, Zaren, Elizabeth, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.320 You and I often find ourselves rooting for criminals who 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.320 are entertaining and don't hurt anyone. That's yes, that's kind 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.679 of my motto, my mantra, my jam. If you will 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.960 I feel like I've hit the jackpot here. Um. This 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.480 guy's story that I'm gonna tell you today is delicious. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.000 It makes me dizzy. I want to tell you, I 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.120 want to tell you the story about the whiskey robber, 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:50.400 Attila and Bruce. I would never have known about this 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.160 king if it wasn't for listener Alex w emailed us 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.160 the hot tip. I need to start with a little 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.880 historical background before we dive in them. Please set the stage, 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:04.000 of course, so as you know, the nation of Hungary was, 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.160 following the defeat of the Nazis in World War Two, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.400 a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Yes, behind the 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.079 Iron Curtain. We were establishing that. We know that, yeah. Um. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.520 From the sixties to the eighties it was had some 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.480 like free market introduced into the economy. Um, and it 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.880 was referred to as the happiest barrack in the Eastern Block. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.919 The happiest barrack in the Eastern not the happiest place 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:31.959 on Earth, the happiest barrack in the Eastern Block. They 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.800 had a really high well not really, they had a 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.360 higher standard of living. Things were a little bit looser 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.360 in terms of travel and expression compared to East Berlin 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:45.920 and Ze Republic. Hungarian art and culture is already so 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.680 lush and elegant. Um. So they kind of resisted the 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:54.040 brutalism as communism and so the highest standard of living 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.120 makes sense. It wasn't something that they would want to 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.640 ever reject, so it was easy for them to kind 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.920 of keep keep in their pockets. So in the eighties 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.000 we had a global recession and that made times tough, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:10.240 and because even the Soviets got hit with it, um, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.800 and it kind of opened people's mind in the Eastern 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:19.560 Bloc satellite what would you call them Soviet states, um, 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.279 it opened their mind to the possibility of revolution. So 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:23.440 this is like when they were falling in love with 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:28.960 rock and rolling beligions and Coca cola. UM and so uh. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:34.320 In Hungary dipped out of the Soviet Union. They were 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.880 one of the first. Yeah. So like before the scorpions 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.160 were singing, winds have changed before their bella like us 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:45.520 saying um. And so the eight nine they dip out, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.360 and that kicked off the chain reaction through the Eastern 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.880 Bloc that eventually led to the fall of communism. The 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.800 exit was peaceful, as it was in many of these 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.520 UM all of them, and it eventually, you know, leads 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:03.000 to the fall of communism, rings about serious economic trouble. However, 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:08.880 because Soviet subsidies went away, so everything is also privatized 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:14.120 like basically overnight, and then prices wildly changed exactly. So 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.000 that's just a quick primer to get you situated. Thank 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.320 you in the landscape for catching me up on Hungary's 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:25.479 recent history. It's very base, completely surface level assessment, all 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:30.040 pre Victor or Bon. Yes. And so this brings us 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:34.640 to Attila and Bruce the whiskey robber. He comes from tough, 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.039 tumultuous times, hard living. People had to get creative to survive. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:46.440 Howdy duty was he creative? I was hoping Romanian culture. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.440 I need you to do a little imagination exercise with me. 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.080 Should I maybe close my eye? I want you to 0:05:54.120 --> 0:06:06.719 close your as as a close girl. It's January twenty two, Budapest, hungry. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:12.480 You're at the post office on Village Street, and that's 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.720 on the Buddha side of Budapest by the way. Well, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.440 you know, the Danube splits it into Buddha, and I 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.560 did not know that. Actually I did not know that. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.120 That's great, though I'm not making that up. I know, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.080 I totally believe. I've never heard that before. The trees 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.680 are bear It's just like the post office is on 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.440 a typical Hungarian tree lined boulevard, wide boulevard on the 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.359 trees are bare. Just before closing time at the post 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:44.160 office January. You've just run in after work to pay 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.360 your electric bill. I'm always running late. It's a common 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.200 thing in Hungary and in many parts of Europe. You 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.400 can pay your bills in cash at the post office. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.799 So that's why you're there. Uh. You know, you're making 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.840 small talk with the ladies in the shop. You leave 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.880 the shop and you pass another man walking in. It's 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:05.320 got a big mustache. He's wearing a very obviously cheap, 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.880 long brown wig. And you know, who are you to judge? 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.000 Just let him do his thing. I mean, you're wearing 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.720 ladies panties under your quarter right pants, so I don't 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:23.320 use to say they've fit in front of my shoe. 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.880 So there you are. He's got the wig on. He's 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.880 also wearing like a bright red pointy ski hat that 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:35.240 has ear flaps, and it's cold. We'll give him that. Um. 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:39.440 You look down at his feet, they're enormous, like clown feet. Yeah, 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.360 but then you notice when he's walking, it's not that 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:45.600 his feed are enormous. The shoes are enormous and they're 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.440 way too big. And he reeks of whiskey as he 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:51.720 walks by. So you know, you're just a responsible guy 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:53.600 paying your bill. You look over it an old man 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.720 or an old like you know man walking by, and 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.720 you kind of raise your eyebrows at him, and then 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.720 you pull your collar up on your coat and you 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:06.200 just go off into the cold Hungarian evening. Yeah. Now, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.239 this guy, he gets to the door of the shop 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.800 and this bewigged man. He tries to enter, but a 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:14.000 woman who works there stops him, and she says, look, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.440 we're closed. You gotta come back. He said, no, I 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.040 gotta send a letter to my girlfriend. I have to 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.240 do it. No gotta come back monday is it's a Friday. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.360 I think gotta come back Monday morning. He pushes her 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.560 aside and enters the post office. From his coat pocket, 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.440 he produces a small toy gun and he raises it 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.360 into the air. This is an armed robbery. Now the 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:38.480 cashier just stares at him. She's annoyed because he she 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.959 can see it's a toy guns. Yellow. Yeah, it's like 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.080 a squirre gun. And actually it was a cap gun, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.040 so it kind of looks but she can tell. I 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.840 mean she's around the block, she's you know, uh, and 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.760 he's totally drunk. So she's just like, are you for 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.880 real right now? I'm not worried? This is what you do. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.040 Um shoves her out of the way, nearly tripping over 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.400 his clown shoes, goes behind the counter, and another woman 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.320 who works there says, where are you doing this? And 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:12.960 he says, shut up, please instant regret. So then what 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.800 does he do? He pulls a Joe Camel Duffel bag 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:20.480 out of his coat pocket and empties the contest of 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.320 the register into it his coat pockets, and then he 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.600 demands that these women open the safe and they do 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.480 and it's empty. Yeah, So the man turns and he 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.520 just runs from the shop and he stops only to 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.559 pull a combination lock out of his pocket. There are 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.160 so many things in his pockets, and he locks the 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.080 door to the store from the outside and takes off. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.000 How he's running in these shoes, I don't know. He's 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.360 sprinting down the road the giant shoes. He rips off 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.040 his hat and his wig tosses him in a trash can. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.600 He pulls a disposable razor out of his endless coat pocket, 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.840 spits into his hand and like rubs it on his lip, 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:04.559 and he proceeds to shade his mustache while running down 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.760 the street. This is just like I'm imagining, like the 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.200 Benny Hill music playing in the background, like banjo scramble. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.880 I'm imagine James Brown. He makes it all the way 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.640 to his apartment, locks the door behind him, empties the 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:22.280 contents of the Joe camelbag onto the kitchen table. It's 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:27.520 five yeah, five thousand, four iNTS, which is about six grand. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.960 Attila Ambrose has just committed his first robbery. That was first. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.839 That was Baby's first robbery. How did we get here? 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:43.000 How did he become this desperate, ridiculous criminals running down 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:48.719 the street. So here's a little bio. Mattila born in 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.720 a tiny village outside of a small town called Chicks 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:58.000 being in Hungary. That's a very common name. I mean, 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.040 I know, but still just keeping it traditional. Yeah, I know. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.480 The hunt, He's like the Hunt of huns Um. Yeah. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.559 Chick c is a tiny little village in Transylvania. And 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:13.760 he lives in a smaller village outside this town. Um 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:18.120 the area is technically a part of Romania's. Yeah, but 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.360 he speaks Hungarian is his first language. He considers himself 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:26.680 Hungarian and but also really proudly Transylvanian Wallachia, like they're 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.520 like their own little like region where they're going to say, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.679 we're not really part of either Romania or Hungry we 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.040 are Wallachia. If you say so, I'm just saying that 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.599 one of those areas, it's all shifting sands, right, you know, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:42.680 it's so um the village that he lives in, no cars, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:46.200 no electricity, no running water. Can I get a place? 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:51.360 It's essentially he lives in a field right next to before. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.040 So he got into a lot of trouble as a kid. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.320 When he was seven, he got arrested for quote, climbing 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.200 too high in a tree. Really looking for crimes, aren't they? 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.880 There's nothing in this town. There's a tree. He's like 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:06.439 his house, get out of there. Gets in trouble for 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:12.400 racing a horse, like literally he was running horse. He um. 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:16.680 He had a hockey scholarship to a nearby boarding school, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.800 but he got expelled for short circuiting the electricity on 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:24.319 exam day. But he doesn't know electricity from Adam. What 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.640 does he know? Well, he grew up with no electricities, 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:34.760 like totally did well, because he later admits in an interview, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.760 he says, saying that I was a kleptomaniac is an understatement. 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:43.000 I took everything that wasn't made a concrete He's honest. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.959 He got excommunicated from his small Catholic church after he 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.520 ate a bunch of Communion wafers, drank a bottle of 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.839 Communion wine, and then was found passed out on the 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.640 altar by a priest. Drunk. On God sixteen, he stole 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:03.400 musical instruments from a popular local wedding band. Yeah, and 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.120 then he gets released. He goes into the army for 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.839 about sixteen months, and then he comes back to his 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:13.280 town avoid prison time. Yeah, I think. So he's sixteen. Um, 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.960 there's nothing, no work in the town, and so um, 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.880 life for Transylvanians in Romania at the time was getting 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.560 more and more oppressive. So he decides, I'm going to Hungary. 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.920 He gets a job is what's called a church painter 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.079 in near the Romanian Hungarian border, and this job was 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.120 specifically given to people trying to cross over from Romania 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.320 to Hungary because the church provided like the tallest place 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.120 to look for on routes. So you know, you could 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:42.840 go there and be like, yeah, i'll paint the church, 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.120 wink wink, and you work there for a little bit 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:46.960 and then you coordinate to go to the next stop, 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.199 the next stop. Oh that's smart. I was thinking, like, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.560 we let him paint and we just pray. You know. Well, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.280 I think that happened to Um. So at this time 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.200 they're both Soviet satellite states, Romanian hung Hungry of course, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.080 more progressive, very appealing. Um. After a couple of weeks 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.480 working at the church, he makes it across and he 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:13.480 enters Hungary. October. He has just turned twenty one years old. 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:19.640 Congratulations exactly. So cracks are showing in the Eastern Bloc 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.520 and people are starting to realize that peaceful revolution is possible. 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.520 As I mentioned earlier, he's twenty one. Um. Now, as 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.040 I mentioned he was. When he was a kid, he 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:34.600 played hockey and so well, yeah, I had a scholarship, 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.200 but the last time he played was when he was fifteen. Yeah, 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:38.960 but he was pretty good at him from what everyone 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.240 When you have a passion, you never let it die. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.720 It's in the body, in the muscle memory, and that's 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.440 that's how he was feeling. So he called up Hungary's 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.800 championship pro hockey team Ute and asked them to play 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.520 like just literally was like, what's up? He went to it, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.680 goes to a pay phone, calls the facility, says, can 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.360 I speak to the general manage? Guy gets on the phone. 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.040 This is what he says to him. Hello, comrade, I'm 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.240 Attila Ambruce from Transylvania. I'm a goalie and i'd like 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:12.680 to try up straight up. The manager thinks he's getting pranked, 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.920 so he's like, now, come on now, and he realizes, well, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.600 first of all, he's using this construction of comrade, and 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.760 like he sounds like he's got like a rural accent 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.880 to him. So he's all right, we know what we 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.600 actually kind of do need a goalie. I'll pick you 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.120 up tomorrow and you can come to practice. So he 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:35.400 picks Attila up. Attila has no equipment zero, I mean, 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.280 don't forget well he doesn't. He didn't bring anything with 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.560 him and they fled essentially a refugee, so I'm not 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.680 expecting him to have his full ice kig. The amount 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.920 of equipment he had was equal to the amount of 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.680 skill that he had. So he doesn't make the team, 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:53.400 but they love his moxie. Yeah, they like the spark 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.480 in this guy, so they give him a job as 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.600 a janitor slash zamboni driver slash handyman job. Can I 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.080 just say that right now and let him sleep in 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:08.720 a closet like job comes with your own requorters and 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.640 so he then he winds up getting kicked out of 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.240 that closet because he got drunk and he crashed the 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:19.440 zamboni into the closet just you know it, just doing donuts. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.360 He was, you know, ghost riding the whip drunk driving 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.360 his zamboni is awesome. Let me just say that. But 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.200 they didn't fire him. They just wouldn't let him sleep 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.640 there anymore. So he's like, what am I going to do? 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:32.000 I need money for a place to live. So he 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.080 gets a side gig as a grave digger. He's like, 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:39.120 what is the most ridiculous thing I could do? Grave digging? Um. 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:43.120 In the meantime, the team made him the unpaid second 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.680 string goalie, so they basically just said, like, here have 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.120 a promotional T shirt. So He's like the rudy of 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.880 their hot He never misses a practice, never really played, 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.880 and it frustrated him. So he quits his janitor gig 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.760 in pro in protest, but he stays on as the 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:04.000 unpaid goalie. So he finds odd jobs. He sells expensive 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.280 pens door to door. Um. He manages to meet this 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:11.360 woman who comes from really rich family, and he goes 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.480 on a ski vacation to Austria with this family. The 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.639 owner of the hotel there knew a little bit of 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.040 Hungarian and when he found out that Attila was from Transylvania, 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:23.320 he asked Attila to smuggle pelts for him, like for 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.800 like first, yeah, but not like to make not for 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.560 like a furrier to make coats. He wanted like bear skinned, 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:33.240 boar skin, deer like rugs and stuff and the hotel 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:37.879 yeah exactly. So Attila goes back to Transylvania and his 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:40.320 uncle connects him with a pelt dealer. I mean, whose 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.080 uncle doesn't know a pelt dealer? Come on now, uh 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.080 that he drives. He then drives eight and fifty miles 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.840 on crappy roads back to Austria, paying off border guards 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.320 along the way with a trunk full of bear skin 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.000 and uh, he did this over and over again. It 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.920 was making really good money. He was also spending really 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.280 good money. He got a taste of it. Um. He 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:07.159 owed a lot of money by and he was totally 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.119 ready to call it quits on the smuggling game, but 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:12.960 he owed this money. So he's like, I got one 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.840 last run. But it gets canceled because all the border 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.440 guards that he'd been bribing got fired them, all of them. 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:22.800 And he had that side gig of selling pens door 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.440 to door, fancy pens. Someone broke into his car and 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:29.960 stole all the pens. So he's like desperate, he needs 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.080 cash and he needs it quick. And that's where we 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.119 met him at the post office that day in the 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:39.679 winter of nine. Ah, so he just borrowed the shoes, 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.040 grabbed like a Joe. Cammell looked around and was like, 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.680 I need money. So let's take a break here, listen 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.640 to some advertisements. I know that you know. I've kept 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.639 you waiting on that because they're your favorite part of 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.040 the show. It's why I'm here. Yeah. Um, when we 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.280 come back, I'll tell you more about how Attila blossomed 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:01.440 into a truly ridiculous criminal nice. I'm gonna get cozy 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:25.200 and listen to these ads. Okay. So when we last met, 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:30.040 I was talking about Attila am Bruce, Attila the Ambers, 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.119 and he had a bunch of debt that he had 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.080 to pay off because he'd had crazy living due to 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.080 his pelt smuggling, living high on that fur money. And 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.160 he robbed a post office with a Joe camel bag 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:46.280 and a fright wig and clown shoes. So he stole 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:49.200 enough in that heist to pay off his debts. But 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.160 you know what, he's not going to give up his lifestyle. 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.560 He wants more. So a couple of months later he 0:19:55.640 --> 0:20:00.800 hits another post office. No weapons, no weapon, just bluster. 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:05.000 Yeah yeah, he's just all bravado um. And from there 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.800 he moves on to travel agents. He's hitting cash businesses 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.320 and I would have never thought travel I know. Well, 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:16.639 here's the thing. He targets one Mayne. He went to 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.200 a travel agent to rob it, specifically because he was 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:24.320 mad at travel agencies, and that's because he'd had he'd 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.439 taken this trip to Tunisia and they messed it up, 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:29.280 and he was just like, you know what, all of 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:34.280 you guys pox on your house, bunch, of scam. So 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.440 he's like, can't really remember where the one was that 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.359 sold him the bum tickets. He's like, well there's a 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:42.119 travel agent. Good enough slap him. So he goes in. 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.440 He robs a travel agency. Uh what does he get 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.040 like travelers checks? Like, what do you cash? They have cash? Well, yeah, 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:50.920 that wasn't I think that they weren't really running on 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.320 a lot of credit there. So people are using cash 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:57.359 for a large amounts Yeah, packages, okay, so um. The 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.240 Hungarian tabloid covered this theft and said, quote, well wish 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:05.760 he robbed the place. Quote, While wishing the office manager 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.520 all the best and kissing her hand, he swiftly left 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:14.560 the office. What a gentleman, Just shut up? Please money, darling. 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:22.320 So he gets away with twelve thou o. He's doubling. June. 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:28.199 Next month he robs his first bank graduated look at 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:32.639 this every time. Going up. August, he robs another post 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:37.199 office with a fellow Transylvanian hockey teammate is his accomplice. 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:39.960 He's like, hey, Bud, I got a little hometown tried. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.240 Let's do this. Take off these gates and follow me 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.439 to this come with me. They have electricity. Um, they 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.920 get thirty six thousand dollars off of that one, so 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:51.080 they got you know, eighteen apiece. Um. You're probably thinking 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:53.280 to yourself, well, what's going on with his hockey career? 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:55.560 I was, I was just wondering, what did you get 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.480 like a rookie card um. A few months after teaming 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:02.240 up to hit the post office um with his teammate, 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:06.360 in October nine, Attila sees his very first ice time nice. 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:11.040 The team was up fourteen to nothing when he came 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:14.120 on the ice. Hockey comes on the ice, he gives 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:16.600 up three goals, but they still win because they were 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:20.600 up by fourteen. A few days after that, after his debut, 0:22:21.080 --> 0:22:23.920 he robs again, this time another travel agency. And he 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.760 does it so tell Anger to work out. He's just processing. 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.399 It's part of his journey. This is what he considers therapy. 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:33.320 He goes to a crowded train station where there's a 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:37.359 travel agency and he does this during rush hour. It's like, 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:40.720 what would be the most ridiculous time. He's wearing a wig, 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:45.600 but of course the employees so they just started screaming 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:49.119 and people gathered outside. He got away, but he didn't 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:52.240 get money, so they started screaming before he had even 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.200 like said, hey, here's my pop gun. And well I 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:55.840 think he like he said, you know, this is a 0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:59.600 stick up, and they're just and then because it's a 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:01.920 crowd station, they're like, what's going on there in the 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:06.880 travel agency? Um? But so he gets away December ninety three, 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:09.800 so that was October December ninety three. He finally gets 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:13.879 his revenge and he steals about from the original travel 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:18.000 agency that wronged him. That clears the deck is on 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:22.960 that February, he dresses as a businessman and he attempts 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:27.880 his first solo bank robbery. Oh yeah, he successfully takes 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:35.960 about dollars first time effort. March strikes again. He gets 0:23:37.200 --> 0:23:39.680 bucks from another bank. What is he spending this on? 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:44.360 He had a gambling problem. He liked the drink, yeah, 0:23:45.080 --> 0:23:46.760 and he liked to go to Tunisia, and so he 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:50.159 likes Tunisia, the ponies and a good whiskey. He does 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:55.560 another travel agency in July nine. Um dressed as a businessman, 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:57.920 puts on a wig. This time. He had a couple 0:23:57.920 --> 0:24:00.919 of drinks at a nearby bar to comms nerves beforehand, 0:24:00.960 --> 0:24:03.720 but he got so drunk that he forgot to put 0:24:03.800 --> 0:24:06.639 up the closed sign and the agency's entrance after he 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:08.880 walked in, so like people just kept walking in, like, hey, 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:13.920 kind of curious about your next let me finish like 0:24:14.080 --> 0:24:17.600 these timing year. Um, So one of the agents rings 0:24:17.600 --> 0:24:20.120 a silent alarm. Are people still going to take a terra? 0:24:21.800 --> 0:24:25.200 They agent rings a silent alarm, and then he can't 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:29.159 access the safe. Um and as he's leaving, though he 0:24:29.240 --> 0:24:33.920 does get money. He gets as he's leaving, the cops 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:37.000 are there, but they're entering the adjacent building that has 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:39.920 the same address that's a supermarket because they think that's 0:24:39.960 --> 0:24:44.320 what's getting robbed. They're like, who would rob a travel technically? 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:51.040 January he robbed his next bank, scored over with that. 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:55.840 One July he steals another twenty grand from another bank, 0:24:56.440 --> 0:24:59.440 just ping pawing in between banks. He's like freelancing where 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:02.359 he's just get sees these checks and just keeps, you know, 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:07.800 living his life. Bills are yeah, basically um. When he 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:11.320 steals the twenty thousand from another bank that they had 0:25:11.359 --> 0:25:14.400 surveillance video and so a still framed photo of him 0:25:14.640 --> 0:25:17.680 was published in the newspapers and featured on a local 0:25:17.800 --> 0:25:23.879 crime show called Sounds Amazing. Um, he's wearing the wig 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:27.600 and he wore a wig specifically that resembled the lead 0:25:27.680 --> 0:25:31.440 detective on the case, like because he was annoyed the 0:25:31.520 --> 0:25:35.200 detective had called him quote unquote lucky in an interview, 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:37.080 and he's like, no, this ain't luck, baby, and you 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:39.040 want to see luck, So Hi, how about this? Luck? 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:41.479 Is what I do on the ice, skill is how 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:44.399 I bring the ridiculousness. So yeah, he's like, sees this 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:47.880 guy's like mullet or whatever. It's like, totally, I'm styling 0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:49.760 my wig like that. You imagine him like he's got 0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:52.040 the wig like on one of those like mannequin heads. 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:55.080 He's like cutting the mullid looking at the photos, cutting 0:25:55.119 --> 0:25:58.200 the mull looking at the photo. Okay, now, very perfect, 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:02.400 perfect son. So that just of course really cheeses off 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:09.879 the detective. Um. But wait, hold on hockey career. At 0:26:09.920 --> 0:26:13.879 this time, he actually gets named U t s starting goalie. 0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:17.960 But he was so stressed out about being caught that 0:26:18.080 --> 0:26:22.119 he started playing really really badly, even for him. In 0:26:22.240 --> 0:26:29.440 a six game stretch, he gave up goals. It's like, 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:33.840 seasons I could do better than I just lay across 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:35.720 in front of the net and just take my hits. 0:26:36.200 --> 0:26:38.600 You could just go back and forth post to post 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:42.120 and do a better job. Just a random luck. When 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:45.600 you gave up twenty three goals in one game, how 0:26:45.680 --> 0:26:47.800 many did he score on his own? Just like I 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:50.440 just knocked this one and I'm tired. I bet I 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:52.320 bet that some of them were. I need a break. 0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:55.280 Go ahead. So he leads his team to a zero 0:26:55.640 --> 0:26:59.800 to three loss. Um. But let's get back to the criming, right, 0:27:00.640 --> 0:27:04.280 just a little time out On that one March, Attila 0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:09.000 robs another post office gets around six. I'm he's glad. 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:12.960 He's good at something. Now back at u t E 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:16.480 at the team, they have a new coach and he 0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:20.119 has a kid. The kid's name is Gabby. Gabby orbon 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:24.800 like Victor, so Gabby is the son of the new coach. 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:28.560 He's also a teammate because apparently if you if you're related, 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:30.919 get out there on the ice. Um. He had been 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:35.280 hanging around Attila because Attila's got money. They don't make 0:27:35.359 --> 0:27:38.960 money on this team, like they make pennies. It's like, 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:41.760 what you know, I want to hang out with this dude. Um. 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:45.760 He befriends him, and then in the summer of ninety six, 0:27:45.880 --> 0:27:48.359 Untila finally relents and it's like, all right, let me 0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:53.720 tell you my secret, my secret to success wigs. And 0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:56.480 so they're like, let's do this, And there was a 0:27:56.600 --> 0:28:00.520 montage and music and they ran through the streets buying collections, 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:04.560 draws back the curtain, giant shoes. In August, they robbed 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:10.440 a post office together. Now, in this case, Attila was 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:12.880 pretty drunk by the time they arrived at the post office. 0:28:12.880 --> 0:28:15.359 I like that, like whiskey is his dumbost feather. He's like, 0:28:15.840 --> 0:28:22.960 I don't believe in me, give me a couple of whiskey. Well, 0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:26.480 he shows up drunk and an employee recognizes him immediately, 0:28:26.640 --> 0:28:29.600 and it's also like, you guys, it's a warm sunny day. 0:28:29.680 --> 0:28:32.680 It's a little suspicious that you have raincoats on. So 0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:36.280 these two drunks and raincoats, not three boys in one raincoat. 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:38.720 Two drunks and each of their own. This is a 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:41.040 stick up. So the employee calls the cops and it's like, 0:28:41.240 --> 0:28:43.280 we got we got the whiskey robber up in here, 0:28:43.360 --> 0:28:46.760 and he's talking about his his goaltending. The operator thinks 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:50.520 it's a joke. When they help, we have the whiskey 0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:52.240 robber in this post office. She's like, yeah, you do, 0:28:54.000 --> 0:28:56.880 weren't weren't um, So she tells the employe, look, if 0:28:56.920 --> 0:28:59.120 you want to be serious, call back and hangs up 0:28:59.280 --> 0:29:02.120 on the employee. Well, at the same time, Attila and 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:04.920 Gabby are like, everybody away from the phone's everybody in 0:29:05.000 --> 0:29:07.200 the corner. This is a stick up. So the phone 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:10.280 starts ringing and no one answers, and instead of being like, 0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:13.360 oh snap, I think there's something to float at the 0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:17.320 post office, the operators like nothing going on. There must 0:29:17.360 --> 0:29:19.360 be busy. If it was real, you would call back. 0:29:19.560 --> 0:29:21.600 I won't even answer the phone. Ain't got nobody today. 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:25.040 I come on now. Attila and Gabby get away with 0:29:25.280 --> 0:29:28.560 thirty four thou dollars in that case. Uh. And it 0:29:28.720 --> 0:29:31.400 was after this incident that the press gave Attila the 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:33.960 nickname the Whiskey Robbers. So I guess before they're like, 0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:37.760 you know it was the drunk Yeah, the guy with 0:29:37.840 --> 0:29:40.720 the wig and the drink um. And so he gets 0:29:40.800 --> 0:29:44.080 that name because like bars that are near the robberies 0:29:44.480 --> 0:29:48.240 are reporting a disguised man downing drinks right before the 0:29:48.320 --> 0:29:51.160 thefts take place, and they're like, there's this guy wearing 0:29:51.200 --> 0:29:53.120 a wig. He came in, he had a bunch of whiskey. 0:29:53.520 --> 0:29:55.200 I don't want to be judging, but you know, and 0:29:55.320 --> 0:29:58.960 he's not showing up sober to these bars. There's another 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:01.360 reason he's drawing attention to himself because he rolls up 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:05.160 having pre partied with the Joe camel Bag at home, 0:30:05.440 --> 0:30:07.600 and then it's just like getting loose at the bar. 0:30:07.880 --> 0:30:10.600 He just needs a couple of to top off his energy. Yeah, 0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:13.120 so now he's referred to as the whiskey robber. He's 0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:20.840 high profile baby. So September, the Dynamic Duo, that gruesome tosome. 0:30:21.320 --> 0:30:24.400 They robbed a bank and took just about fifty grand 0:30:25.200 --> 0:30:28.520 a bank. These are they're doing numbers. He's getting pretty good. 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:32.200 November they robbed another bank. He's getting boring at this point. 0:30:33.720 --> 0:30:36.400 They dressed for this robbery. They dressed in wigs and 0:30:36.440 --> 0:30:41.360 trench coats. Keep it fresh. Well, he's he's can't Attila 0:30:42.040 --> 0:30:44.760 wearing a wig, wearing a trench coat, drunk as a skunk. 0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:48.440 Just as as they're about to begin this robbery, Attila 0:30:48.600 --> 0:30:51.360 realizes that he forgot to bring a bag to put 0:30:51.400 --> 0:30:53.440 the money in. He doesn't have his Joe camel bag, 0:30:54.680 --> 0:30:57.280 doesn't even have anything. So he's like hold on. He 0:30:57.440 --> 0:31:00.280 runs to a nearby supermarket and he buys a loaf 0:31:00.360 --> 0:31:02.480 of bread and they put it into bag for him, 0:31:03.520 --> 0:31:06.880 and then he runs to the bank. He goes in. 0:31:07.040 --> 0:31:10.320 They robbed the bank at ninety grand, put it in 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:12.520 the bag, and he leaves the bread in the safe 0:31:14.600 --> 0:31:17.560 even trade, even trade. What was going on in his 0:31:17.720 --> 0:31:22.040 hockey life? You're wondering enough with the criming, so he's 0:31:22.040 --> 0:31:25.640 good at robbing. How is the goaltending? Well later that evening, 0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:29.520 after that robbery, but the bread robbery and hockey practice, 0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:33.480 he was so drunk at that point that he missed 0:31:33.520 --> 0:31:36.760 like a super easy goal in A frustrated teammate got 0:31:36.880 --> 0:31:38.920 so mad that he hit him in the head with 0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:43.040 his hockey stick. And then the report I read was 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:46.160 he hit him, to quote so hard that a nail 0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:50.440 from Attila's helmet lodged inside his skull. Attila hardly noticed 0:31:50.720 --> 0:31:55.040 a nail from his That's what jumped out, like, great, 0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:57.960 guy's got a nail in his skull, He's pickled. Whatever 0:32:00.480 --> 0:32:02.479 what is going on with a nail in the helmet? 0:32:03.040 --> 0:32:05.880 And they mean like a metal nail, not like a fingernail. 0:32:05.960 --> 0:32:08.120 Right now, like a metal nail went into a skull 0:32:09.040 --> 0:32:16.040 in Soviet Russia nail hammers. You what is going on 0:32:16.240 --> 0:32:18.320 with that that the teammate is so mad at the 0:32:18.400 --> 0:32:23.160 drunk goalie just beat him us and Antila is just 0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:32.280 like sitting there all how drawing. So January robs another 0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:38.560 bank Grand March. This litany is incredible. He robs he 0:32:38.680 --> 0:32:42.600 had another bank. This time they dressed as cops and 0:32:42.680 --> 0:32:45.400 they were like, you know, we found we heard that 0:32:45.520 --> 0:32:50.680 there's some smuggling going on. There's some business. Yeah, sure, 0:32:50.760 --> 0:32:54.400 it's all legit. So they're like, fulled you, we're not cops. 0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:58.720 Were the robbers put it in there? Fifty two grand? 0:32:58.960 --> 0:33:01.880 Off they go. So the cops are rushing to that 0:33:02.120 --> 0:33:05.880 bank and they're already gone. Attila and Gabby went to 0:33:06.040 --> 0:33:09.479 grab lunch. So they got lunch while the cops were 0:33:09.520 --> 0:33:11.400 like descending on the bank like oh my god, he 0:33:11.480 --> 0:33:14.440 hit again, and the people are all traumatized in there. 0:33:14.840 --> 0:33:16.640 So they're grabbing lunch, and then they went to a 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:19.360 post office on the other side of town, and we're like, look, 0:33:19.400 --> 0:33:21.840 we're dressed for it, we might as well just you 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:24.200 got a minute, Yeah, what do you think? So they 0:33:24.320 --> 0:33:27.440 like they actually they in this case, they were dressed 0:33:27.480 --> 0:33:30.640 as cops. They changed their they had a costume change, 0:33:31.800 --> 0:33:37.400 so um they put on suits, long wigs and baseball caps. 0:33:37.880 --> 0:33:42.440 So it's like zz top um and they stole twenty 0:33:42.480 --> 0:33:46.320 two grand, so that's a two for those are athletes. 0:33:46.400 --> 0:33:51.320 These are endurance athletes though. The performance this is what 0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:56.200 peak performance looks like. So at the next robbery April, 0:33:57.120 --> 0:34:00.320 he and Gabby only managed to steal about a two 0:34:00.480 --> 0:34:04.360 hundred dollars because the bank had just handed off most 0:34:04.400 --> 0:34:06.479 of its cash to an armored vehicle. I can't win 0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:08.680 them all. Bad timing, kind of like how he is 0:34:08.760 --> 0:34:11.600 on the ice. Um the following month way more money. 0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:15.600 So they've got their outfits on business suits and wigs. Um. 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:19.239 They stole one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars from 0:34:19.280 --> 0:34:23.920 a Budapest bank. Yeah. Um the bills the police had requested, 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:26.520 Hey listen, you got a lot of cash on hand, 0:34:26.600 --> 0:34:30.320 let's mark the bills. They're like, sure, they marked the bills. 0:34:30.719 --> 0:34:33.399 The problem was is that banks and post offices didn't 0:34:33.440 --> 0:34:35.759 have an ability to read the marks. They just put 0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:38.360 smiley faces on there, so they were like and no 0:34:38.400 --> 0:34:39.960 one knows to look for it to like, oh look 0:34:40.000 --> 0:34:42.520 that's that's kind of smile face on. That's funny. Right. Yeah, 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:45.560 so they're able to pass the money, no, no problem, 0:34:45.680 --> 0:34:50.200 they can't be tracked. Um Now, Attila, after this huge hall, 0:34:50.280 --> 0:34:53.560 he's like, you know what that was it? That was 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:59.600 my final bow. Yeah, he's like, but hold on, what's 0:34:59.640 --> 0:35:03.480 going on at the hockey career that year? Despite his 0:35:03.600 --> 0:35:06.840 dedication until it was dropped from the hockey team? What 0:35:07.239 --> 0:35:09.759 this out of all the stuff you told me, this 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:13.759 is just not that injustice? This is just wrong. How 0:35:13.840 --> 0:35:16.359 did he find out the beatings he's endured. He found 0:35:16.400 --> 0:35:17.879 out because he was reading the paper and he saw 0:35:17.960 --> 0:35:22.080 the team's roster and his name wasn't on it. Yeah, 0:35:22.680 --> 0:35:25.240 he did manage to get a spot on the team's 0:35:25.280 --> 0:35:28.400 cross town rival, but the teammates didn't like him and 0:35:28.520 --> 0:35:33.680 it didn't last. Um so December, n right, just a 0:35:33.719 --> 0:35:37.200 couple of months later. Uh, he's They're like, you know what, hey, 0:35:37.280 --> 0:35:40.719 Gabby Gabs, I'm a little short on cash. Let's come 0:35:40.719 --> 0:35:45.520 out of retirement. Let's do this. And they did. They 0:35:46.160 --> 0:35:49.200 came out of retirement and did another job. Now I 0:35:49.320 --> 0:35:51.759 need to take a break. I need to think about this. 0:35:52.560 --> 0:35:55.200 I need to think about hockey. I do you think 0:35:55.200 --> 0:35:57.759 about injustice? And when we come back, I'm going to 0:35:57.840 --> 0:36:00.799 tell you what happens next. Little Attila, I'm gonna take 0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:25.760 this damboni for a loop. Okay, So Gabby and Attila, 0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:30.800 out of retirement, back at it again. Uh. They stole 0:36:30.880 --> 0:36:33.960 almost forty four thousand dollars from the same bank that 0:36:34.040 --> 0:36:36.879 they robbed the previous May. Boys are back in town. 0:36:37.840 --> 0:36:40.520 This time though he used a gun. That's a one. 0:36:40.600 --> 0:36:43.239 He escalated. He hadn't been doing that, never had to. 0:36:43.480 --> 0:36:49.160 He fired three shots at a surveillance camera had pause 0:36:49.200 --> 0:36:54.760 in there. Um. So in February of night they robbed 0:36:54.920 --> 0:36:59.320 another bank, and in that case they told the employees 0:36:59.360 --> 0:37:02.759 they had a bomb. They're getting desperate. But the bomb 0:37:02.880 --> 0:37:06.440 was just two cigars wrapped with transistor radio wire to 0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:08.960 a battery, a bullet cartridge, and the face of a 0:37:09.040 --> 0:37:14.239 digital watch. It's a trust me. Don't touch it. It's fine. 0:37:15.840 --> 0:37:19.680 Don't check. Don't check, guys, don't check. Um. The next 0:37:19.760 --> 0:37:23.759 month they robbed another bank, but Attila then they used 0:37:23.800 --> 0:37:27.479 a tank. This time he's wearing this long wool coat. 0:37:28.040 --> 0:37:33.520 He's wearing a blonde wig and a beret, mixing it up. Glasses, 0:37:34.480 --> 0:37:37.319 but he was really distracted because he'd recently broken up 0:37:37.320 --> 0:37:41.920 with his girlfriend. His emotional time him getting dropped from 0:37:41.920 --> 0:37:45.319 the hockey steal in his stealing the wigs he's wearing 0:37:45.360 --> 0:37:49.759 all her. So because he's so distracted, he takes a 0:37:49.840 --> 0:37:52.760 lot longer than the three minutes that they usually allotted, 0:37:53.320 --> 0:37:56.239 And by the time they left the entrance outside was 0:37:56.320 --> 0:38:00.200 surrounded by a group of who do you think I'm 0:38:00.239 --> 0:38:03.919 gonna go with Jehovah's witnesses. No, wait a second, guess 0:38:04.280 --> 0:38:09.720 Canadian tourists there for a whiskey thon so close vegetable vendors, 0:38:11.400 --> 0:38:15.960 green grocers, so they there's this to do going on, 0:38:16.280 --> 0:38:19.840 and all the vegetable nearby vegetable vendors surround the outside 0:38:19.840 --> 0:38:21.879 and they're like, we're going to apprehend the whiskey robber. 0:38:23.000 --> 0:38:25.839 Pickle peddlers and cucumber pushers trying to chase you down. 0:38:26.200 --> 0:38:29.279 The cops are closing in Attila, he's got the gun. 0:38:30.360 --> 0:38:32.879 He runs out and he shoots twice into the air 0:38:33.360 --> 0:38:35.839 and then starts running and all the vendors are chasing him. 0:38:36.520 --> 0:38:38.279 They chase the man who fired the gun in there 0:38:38.600 --> 0:38:42.240 like this, well, and the guy in a heavy coat, 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:46.480 blond wig beret and glasses. It's like a Wes Anderson. 0:38:48.320 --> 0:38:51.000 The green grocers follow him and then everyone goes running by. 0:38:51.120 --> 0:38:54.080 I can see the shot well. A cops starts chasing 0:38:54.160 --> 0:38:56.680 him too, and then with it ed Norton as the 0:38:56.719 --> 0:39:00.520 cop yes it was. And then Attila carjack someone and 0:39:00.719 --> 0:39:02.760 takes the car. They go on a high speed chase. 0:39:03.600 --> 0:39:08.399 The car's windows get shot out American. He escaped, though 0:39:08.880 --> 0:39:15.160 I had no doubt dollars uh. I don't know what 0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:18.160 happened to Gabby. I guess Gabby went with him. Gabby 0:39:18.360 --> 0:39:21.080 was in the wind on this one. Good. Let's check 0:39:21.120 --> 0:39:23.239 back in on the hockey career, because it's not over, 0:39:23.600 --> 0:39:25.799 thank good. I keep hoping that that's going to pull 0:39:25.920 --> 0:39:28.000 him back to a life that is more fulfilling. Well, 0:39:28.040 --> 0:39:31.120 he got his unpaid goalie job back at ut E, 0:39:32.040 --> 0:39:35.920 but he was playing so badly and generally so drunk 0:39:36.400 --> 0:39:38.160 that they told him not to come to practice for 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:40.800 a while. Just counted the game. He had just taken 0:39:40.880 --> 0:39:44.880 up space here. But let's get back to the robberies. January, 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:51.680 Attila and Gabby they robbed another bank, but guard decided 0:39:51.719 --> 0:39:54.600 to fight him like fist fight. Yeah, like over the toaster, 0:39:54.680 --> 0:39:56.520 that free toaster. You can hate the money, but I'm 0:39:56.560 --> 0:40:01.279 keeping the free toaster, he said, debate me. So the 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:05.080 guard is like grappling with them. He delays them enough 0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:08.840 that he only takes about bucks from the register or 0:40:08.920 --> 0:40:11.799 from the teller sorry, because this is a bank. Um, 0:40:12.000 --> 0:40:14.920 so he gets about bucks. And now you know, these 0:40:14.960 --> 0:40:18.359 two are getting low on money despite all their spending money, 0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:22.560 like well, imagine they're living big, buying first pelts. They're 0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:28.239 draped in pelts, uncured. So they decide, okay, you know what, Okay, 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:31.880 one more bank and then we call it quippause just 0:40:31.960 --> 0:40:35.200 for us. Yeah. Well, they end up getting almost eighty 0:40:35.280 --> 0:40:39.680 thou dollars off this one. But they took so long 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:42.640 to do it in there that the cops were like 0:40:42.840 --> 0:40:45.080 they wanted the moment to laugh. Yeah, the cops were 0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:48.160 on their way. The cops were almost there. Attila got away, 0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:53.200 Gabby did not. Yeah, and the coach knows who hangs 0:40:53.200 --> 0:40:56.520 out with his boy. Yeah, Attila doesn't know where Gabby is, 0:40:56.840 --> 0:40:58.399 but he knows he doesn't have a lot of times. 0:40:58.480 --> 0:41:01.680 He makes a break for it, and so he gets home. 0:41:02.520 --> 0:41:05.040 He decides he's going to leave the country or just 0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:08.440 you know, go to the mattresses as they say, right, yes, 0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:12.440 that's what they do say. Help me check my crimical life. 0:41:13.600 --> 0:41:15.279 Who does he take with him when he goes on 0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:21.680 the run? Um the I don't know, the enforcer from 0:41:21.719 --> 0:41:25.919 the hockey team. He took his Burmese mountain dog named Don. 0:41:26.600 --> 0:41:32.359 I was close named Don Don. This is the first 0:41:32.480 --> 0:41:34.759 mentioned of the dog in the coverage of it is 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:36.680 this And it's like, wait, hold on, why is this 0:41:36.800 --> 0:41:38.719 not the first thing that's ever told about him. I 0:41:38.800 --> 0:41:42.000 have a Burmese mountain dog named Don. Um so he 0:41:42.120 --> 0:41:44.600 and Don took off and sped to the Romanian border. 0:41:45.000 --> 0:41:49.320 I wonder what Don Don is named after. We're in 0:41:49.400 --> 0:41:55.879 the late nineties and tiny bubbles, the tiny bubbles. It's 0:41:55.880 --> 0:41:59.560 definitely not Don Johnson. It's probably not Donald could be 0:41:59.719 --> 0:42:01.800 I mean it is Eastern Bloc. Yeah, but it's the 0:42:01.880 --> 0:42:04.600 late nineties. Yeah, so I'm thinking, like, you know, and 0:42:04.880 --> 0:42:08.759 it's probably not Donald Duck, probably not Donald Sutherland. Maybe 0:42:08.880 --> 0:42:11.680 he missheard Dom DeLuise. There you go. I like that 0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:15.560 he named his talk after Tom Deelwise, but he missheard it. Yeah, 0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:20.640 uh so he uh it was actually a sports journalist 0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:25.360 who first outed Attila publicly. Well, he figured, like, okay, 0:42:25.920 --> 0:42:28.520 this robbery went down. I've been noticing that the goalie 0:42:28.560 --> 0:42:32.560 is rich and he didn't show up. And he didn't 0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:35.640 show up. There was a robbery today and he almost 0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:37.640 got caught. And now, hold on a second. So he 0:42:37.680 --> 0:42:40.640 starts like clocking all the stuff. Attila makes it to 0:42:40.719 --> 0:42:43.960 the Romanian border. Um, but the guards were all waiting 0:42:44.040 --> 0:42:46.680 for him. He tried to go over on the road. 0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:49.320 He goes on the road and he shows up with 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:53.399 his passport. He's like coming to you know, don show 0:42:53.560 --> 0:42:57.800 your passport, um, don want to see the hometown. Just 0:42:58.120 --> 0:43:03.759 homesick um. So Attila immediately confesses to all of the robberies, uh, 0:43:03.960 --> 0:43:07.080 twenty six of them at this point. And he even 0:43:07.120 --> 0:43:09.399 told him like, these are the disguises that I wore. 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:13.719 Here's my look book, Here's how much I took. He 0:43:13.840 --> 0:43:17.640 had laid it all out in all at this point, 0:43:17.719 --> 0:43:21.279 he'd taken about six dred thousand dollars. And that's like 0:43:21.400 --> 0:43:27.080 if you're exchanging the exchange rates for forens dollars um. 0:43:27.440 --> 0:43:32.960 Over a thousand people stepped forward to adopt don. I 0:43:33.000 --> 0:43:38.360 don't know what's going on. I'll taked on um. Attila 0:43:38.400 --> 0:43:41.600 spent the next six months in a Budapest jail awaiting 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:47.600 his charges. He was split down the middle. Um. He 0:43:47.719 --> 0:43:49.680 gave a bunch of interviews when he was in jail, 0:43:50.000 --> 0:43:54.800 including to criminalis Um and that just like fortified his 0:43:54.960 --> 0:43:58.279 whiskey robber pathology and made him a total folk hero 0:43:58.560 --> 0:44:02.680 because he wasn't hurting people. It was just you know. Um. July, 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:07.640 they finally formally charge him. So besides the robberies, he 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:10.279 was accused of attempted murder because of the fire and 0:44:10.440 --> 0:44:14.960 the gun uh and he um. You know it's bad 0:44:15.080 --> 0:44:18.439 to fire guns around vegetable vendors. They're very sensitive people, 0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:22.319 are you could have bruised the cabbage. Um. The morning 0:44:22.400 --> 0:44:26.640 of July, he had this you know, usual routine. He's 0:44:26.719 --> 0:44:31.640 led outside to the jail's exercise facilities. Zaren, I want 0:44:31.719 --> 0:44:34.640 you to picture it. I'm going I'm going for to 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:39.080 come here. Attila is out in the yard. It's a 0:44:39.160 --> 0:44:43.400 hot day. He's wearing heavy jeans and a long sleeve shirt. 0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:48.400 At this prison, each inmates given a small private space 0:44:48.600 --> 0:44:50.880 to work out in. There's a door that locks, but 0:44:51.000 --> 0:44:53.879 the space is open to the sky. The guard locks 0:44:53.920 --> 0:44:57.200 the door. Attila reaches under his clothes and pulls out 0:44:57.239 --> 0:45:00.800 a rope that he's made from sheets, shoe paces, and towels. 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:06.520 He scales the wall, and just as he suspected would 0:45:06.520 --> 0:45:08.680 be the case, there's no one in the guard tower 0:45:08.880 --> 0:45:12.480 looking form, no one, no one on on watch. He 0:45:13.760 --> 0:45:18.120 crosses the interior courtyard to the jail's administration building. Now, 0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:20.839 his plan was to find an unlocked office on either 0:45:20.920 --> 0:45:23.080 the first or second floor and then pop out the 0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:26.640 window lower himself down with this amazing rope that he 0:45:26.719 --> 0:45:30.840 has crafted. Um, but he hears people on those floors, 0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:32.840 so he has to go up to the fourth floor. 0:45:33.600 --> 0:45:35.960 Waight up to the fourth like on the outside of 0:45:36.000 --> 0:45:38.040 the building. No, no, no, he's inside, and he's like, 0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:40.120 I got to get to the outside of the jails 0:45:40.120 --> 0:45:41.839 and find a window. Well, he has to go up 0:45:41.840 --> 0:45:45.160 to the fourth floor. Um, the rope not long enough, 0:45:45.320 --> 0:45:48.040 but you know, he didn't have a whole lot of options. Uh, 0:45:48.360 --> 0:45:52.080 So he descends nearly fifty ft to the ground, severely 0:45:52.239 --> 0:45:56.240 sprains both ankles, and then just rips his palms to shreds. 0:45:57.680 --> 0:45:59.719 Like he just gets mess. He's basically just sliding down 0:45:59.719 --> 0:46:01.600 a rope with his hands, taking all the s off 0:46:01.760 --> 0:46:04.560 yea like shoe lace rope um. It was the first 0:46:04.600 --> 0:46:09.719 time anyone had ever escaped from this jail before. So 0:46:09.920 --> 0:46:12.719 with the help of a contact, he found an apartment 0:46:12.960 --> 0:46:16.759 in Budapest. I don't know which side to hide out 0:46:16.800 --> 0:46:19.440 in um, but first he had to celebrate with a 0:46:19.480 --> 0:46:22.480 couple of beers. You know. He goes to a bar 0:46:23.120 --> 0:46:25.640 and goes in the bathroom, gets rid of the clothes 0:46:25.680 --> 0:46:28.800 you've been wearing, shaves his face, and then the bartender 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:30.759 like sees him and it's like, hey, are you a 0:46:30.840 --> 0:46:36.200 whiskey robber shrugs. He's like, I get that a lot. Meanwhile, 0:46:36.440 --> 0:46:39.800 good non answer at eleven am, because this is like 0:46:39.840 --> 0:46:42.040 in the early and the first in the morning where 0:46:42.080 --> 0:46:44.680 he's getting his workout. At eleven am, they put Budapest 0:46:44.719 --> 0:46:48.160 on an emergency lockdown and it was the largest man 0:46:48.280 --> 0:46:52.960 hunt in post communist Eastern Europe's history at this point. Yeah. So, 0:46:53.520 --> 0:46:57.320 not long after his escape, his attorney makes a statement 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:00.279 and he says that he wants to an o ounce 0:47:00.360 --> 0:47:03.640 that Attila would be at the center of an advertising 0:47:03.719 --> 0:47:08.440 campaign for a new energy drink. Did I just have 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:12.320 a stroke? I was saying you're listening to you, and 0:47:12.480 --> 0:47:16.200 I did none of that. Mads tense. So instead of 0:47:16.320 --> 0:47:19.440 saying I've asked my client to turn himself, this is 0:47:19.480 --> 0:47:21.839 a great misunderstanding, He's like, I'm glad you were all 0:47:21.920 --> 0:47:25.360 gathered here today. A really important announcement. I want to 0:47:25.480 --> 0:47:28.480 tell you about a new drink called Attila Pow. It's 0:47:28.480 --> 0:47:31.960 a very rare brand partnership. It's there and he says, look, 0:47:32.200 --> 0:47:36.480 promotional t shirts, buttons, souvenirs, they're already in production. An 0:47:36.480 --> 0:47:42.360 alcoholic is the precursor to like vodka and Red Bull exactly. 0:47:42.480 --> 0:47:45.080 It goes really well with whiskey. So they did. They 0:47:45.120 --> 0:47:47.239 had all these promotional things in place, and there was 0:47:47.280 --> 0:47:51.000 a partnership with like a Western European manufacturer and they're 0:47:51.040 --> 0:47:54.600 going to distribute it. Um. So you know the attorney 0:47:54.680 --> 0:47:58.440 is doing that. He obviously has the best attorney possum. 0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:02.239 There's also a reward of one million four ins. That's 0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:07.440 like about so for anyone who wants to help catch him, 0:48:07.520 --> 0:48:16.560 Red Bull gives you wigs. Sorry, I was just thinking 0:48:17.080 --> 0:48:18.719 I just need to rest in that from it, and 0:48:18.800 --> 0:48:21.800 that was great. Um. So there's this one million fourans 0:48:21.920 --> 0:48:26.279 reward for any help in catching him. Hungarians uninterested. They're like, 0:48:26.320 --> 0:48:28.120 we're not helping you with this. Look what you you 0:48:28.239 --> 0:48:30.279 bunched this up? Do I look like a snitch? Yeah? 0:48:30.320 --> 0:48:32.640 Why you got to insult me? They're like chugging their 0:48:32.840 --> 0:48:35.879 Attila juice and just looking like, look somewhere else. Pal 0:48:37.120 --> 0:48:40.759 Attila calculated that he'd need between eighty five thousand and 0:48:40.880 --> 0:48:42.880 a hundred and ten thousand dollars to start a new 0:48:42.960 --> 0:48:45.880 life somewhere else, and he was considering Brazil. Always a 0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:50.080 good choice, right, Argentina maybe so um, he didn't have 0:48:50.200 --> 0:48:53.799 that kind of money. So what does he do? Steals it? Yeah, 0:48:54.920 --> 0:48:58.600 end of July robs a bank. So he's on the run. 0:48:58.920 --> 0:49:01.120 He robs a bank the best time to rob. And 0:49:01.440 --> 0:49:04.480 my favorite is that he's like, Okay, everyone knows who 0:49:04.480 --> 0:49:08.320 I am. I need this money. I'm going to go 0:49:08.400 --> 0:49:10.080 back to a bank I've robbed before. I like the 0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:11.960 comfort of it. They'll probably respect me. You know what 0:49:12.040 --> 0:49:14.040 I do. They know what I'm working with. So he 0:49:14.160 --> 0:49:17.040 goes in to this bank that he'd robbed previously, and 0:49:17.160 --> 0:49:21.040 you know, they're just oh godly, and so he's like, 0:49:21.280 --> 0:49:23.120 you know, can you heal your money? Open the safe 0:49:23.160 --> 0:49:25.680 but the safe had been moved since he'd been there last, 0:49:25.719 --> 0:49:27.920 so it was very confusing for him. And he was drunk. 0:49:28.120 --> 0:49:30.880 He allegedly yells, you know who I am. I have 0:49:31.080 --> 0:49:36.040 nothing to lose. I'm talking about care. He was only 0:49:36.080 --> 0:49:39.680 able to get before he escaped. And how did he escape. 0:49:40.000 --> 0:49:43.560 He swam across the Danube to an island to evade 0:49:43.600 --> 0:49:49.160 the police, across which divides Buddha. And there we go. 0:49:50.440 --> 0:49:55.320 September does it again. He gets, he buys a moped 0:49:56.360 --> 0:49:58.840 and he drives the mop head to the bank. But 0:49:59.280 --> 0:50:03.680 he's him murk. He drank an entire bottle of whiskey, 0:50:03.880 --> 0:50:06.279 and he was so drunk that when he walked in, 0:50:06.360 --> 0:50:11.640 the tellers started laughing. He's drooling, and he's like, I 0:50:11.680 --> 0:50:15.640 can only keep one eye open. He's like, listen, I 0:50:15.760 --> 0:50:21.760 love you guys so much. Don't give me the money please. 0:50:23.800 --> 0:50:26.880 He only got two sixty bucks out of this one, 0:50:27.640 --> 0:50:30.400 and the cops were like, you know, that's less than 0:50:30.440 --> 0:50:33.000 the price of the scooter. That you've forgotten the parking lot, 0:50:33.440 --> 0:50:35.680 and that you left your helmet on. He left the 0:50:35.800 --> 0:50:40.280 keys in the moped. Everything he left the moped, keys, helmet, whatever, 0:50:40.520 --> 0:50:43.359 So he gets less than that's worth. He's like, all right, 0:50:43.400 --> 0:50:46.279 October rolls around him, gonna try it again, different bank. 0:50:46.960 --> 0:50:50.160 He wears a baseball hat and jacket and brand new loafers. 0:50:50.880 --> 0:50:52.320 You know, it's like your first day of school and 0:50:52.360 --> 0:50:55.160 you just want to get fitted um the shoes, though 0:50:55.280 --> 0:50:57.800 they sliced the back of his ankles so badly that 0:50:57.880 --> 0:51:00.360 he had to abort the mission. He it back to 0:51:00.440 --> 0:51:02.600 his apartment and he had to let his feet heal. 0:51:04.680 --> 0:51:07.279 He's just like got his toad season some ice and 0:51:07.320 --> 0:51:10.440 he's like, we should I should have broken these in. 0:51:11.640 --> 0:51:14.360 Really I didn't think that through. He probably forgot to 0:51:14.440 --> 0:51:18.000 like sand down roughen up the souls to these loafers 0:51:18.000 --> 0:51:20.719 and sliding around. He's walking around his house and his 0:51:20.800 --> 0:51:25.120 ice skates and don't hurt. A week later, he gives 0:51:25.200 --> 0:51:28.360 himself a week to rest up. October eighteenth, he gets drunk. 0:51:28.400 --> 0:51:33.759 He enters a bank. They're about fifteen customers. They're about 0:51:33.800 --> 0:51:37.080 fifteen customers in there. He forgets again to put the 0:51:37.120 --> 0:51:39.480 clothes sign on the door. So by the time the 0:51:39.600 --> 0:51:44.040 robberies in progress, forty new people have entered, singing closing 0:51:44.400 --> 0:51:47.800 time time. Do you give me all the money you 0:51:48.040 --> 0:51:52.800 guys that deserves an arrest. Um. It took him sixteen minutes. 0:51:52.840 --> 0:51:57.000 That's a long time, but he got two dollars. He 0:51:57.080 --> 0:52:02.120 got away, yeah, well kind of yeah. He leaves right 0:52:02.160 --> 0:52:03.960 when the cops are getting there, and he would have 0:52:04.040 --> 0:52:06.719 been they would have gotten there sooner, but the two 0:52:06.800 --> 0:52:10.000 separate police cars got an unrelated accidents on the way over, 0:52:12.080 --> 0:52:15.560 and so he gets out the back. He's outside, he's running, 0:52:15.600 --> 0:52:18.200 he's looking for a place to hide. He jumps um 0:52:18.280 --> 0:52:20.320 into a nearby back yard. He jumps a fence, but 0:52:20.400 --> 0:52:23.560 he falls head first over the fence and he breaks 0:52:23.640 --> 0:52:27.360 two of his fingers and knocks himself unconscious. So he 0:52:27.480 --> 0:52:31.760 spent the night in the yard and the next morning 0:52:33.719 --> 0:52:40.759 he gets but he's wakes up unconscious, Yes, and like 0:52:40.840 --> 0:52:43.680 a dog lookscept sniffs on him, peas on him, goes 0:52:43.760 --> 0:52:49.279 back inside. He goes back to his apartment and the 0:52:49.400 --> 0:52:51.680 next morning he thought he got away with it, but 0:52:51.880 --> 0:52:54.560 in the whole kerf fluffle, he dropped his phone card 0:52:55.160 --> 0:52:57.560 and police were able to trace a call to his 0:52:57.719 --> 0:53:01.320 Transylvanian apartment owner, who was in the process of getting 0:53:01.320 --> 0:53:04.279 Attila a new passport, and they figured out where he 0:53:04.400 --> 0:53:09.400 was hiding. So October Attila is cooking his friend the 0:53:09.480 --> 0:53:12.920 thank you dinner, thank you for being a friend, and 0:53:13.160 --> 0:53:17.000 the Budapest police arrive. Um, they arrest him. He had 0:53:17.040 --> 0:53:19.040 been on the lamp for a hundred and nine days 0:53:19.160 --> 0:53:23.080 at this point, and so in all over the course 0:53:23.200 --> 0:53:28.360 of six years, he committed twenty nine successful robberies, one unsuccessful. 0:53:28.960 --> 0:53:33.160 Um he stole around one point nine million four iNTS, 0:53:33.320 --> 0:53:36.880 which is about UM eight hundred and forty thousand dollars 0:53:37.200 --> 0:53:40.520 in exchange rate in today would be almost one point 0:53:40.600 --> 0:53:45.600 five million dollars UM. Sewing all that drunk. Yeah, like 0:53:45.719 --> 0:53:47.680 other bank robbers just must hear this story and just 0:53:47.760 --> 0:53:49.880 hang their heads. He was just consistent. It was like 0:53:49.960 --> 0:53:51.839 trying to get on the hockey team. He's consistent. He's 0:53:51.840 --> 0:53:56.080 just gonna keep hammering at it. Just showed up, success, success, 0:53:56.160 --> 0:53:58.680 showing up. So but here he gets arrested. They're not 0:53:58.680 --> 0:54:00.960 going to put him back in the jail. Instead, they 0:54:01.000 --> 0:54:04.640 housed him in a government building. Quote in a special 0:54:04.840 --> 0:54:08.600 all glass cage built five years earlier for the country's 0:54:08.640 --> 0:54:13.080 most notorious serial killer, Magda Marinko, a convicted butcher of 0:54:13.200 --> 0:54:15.800 four Wow, So they actually put him in like a 0:54:15.840 --> 0:54:17.640 life size whiskey ball. They put him in like a 0:54:17.800 --> 0:54:22.440 bond villain or a life sized whiskey. They poured him 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:25.920 on in Um, he's licking the bottom of it. He 0:54:26.080 --> 0:54:29.200 was charged with sixty counts of robbery. He was charged 0:54:29.239 --> 0:54:32.640 with attempted murder. He was charged with violations of personal 0:54:32.719 --> 0:54:35.680 freedom for the people that he temporarily held against their will. 0:54:36.200 --> 0:54:39.440 Dimly charged with the abuse of a green grocer. Yes, 0:54:40.080 --> 0:54:43.360 he played guilty to all the robberies, and he was 0:54:43.560 --> 0:54:45.640 mad though he was mad about attempted murder. He's like, 0:54:45.640 --> 0:54:48.000 I didn't aim that at any It was just you know, 0:54:50.239 --> 0:54:53.359 with all this booze, right is livers all who um 0:54:54.040 --> 0:55:02.440 he The trial lasted six months. There were seventy witnesses, everyone, 0:55:02.640 --> 0:55:05.840 everyone turned up for it, and despite asking the judge 0:55:05.880 --> 0:55:09.240 for leniency, in December of two thousand he was sentenced 0:55:09.280 --> 0:55:12.759 to fifteen years in a maximum security prison. And that's 0:55:12.800 --> 0:55:15.719 more than at that point what murders were getting. Um. 0:55:15.920 --> 0:55:18.680 He was acquitted on the attempted murder charges, but found 0:55:18.719 --> 0:55:23.120 guilty on forty six robbery charges. The prosecution and the 0:55:23.200 --> 0:55:26.320 defense both appealed to the Hungarian Supreme Court, like no 0:55:26.440 --> 0:55:29.640 one's happy here. There are no winners. The court like 0:55:29.840 --> 0:55:33.440 they agree prosecutions appealing, like, yeah, damn it, give me 0:55:33.480 --> 0:55:36.799 another shot. Well, I guess because they wanted the attempted murder. 0:55:37.040 --> 0:55:38.719 The court is like, you know what, No, we're going 0:55:38.760 --> 0:55:40.839 to acquit him of the attempted murder. But let's put 0:55:40.880 --> 0:55:44.319 two more years on this. Let him steal. He won't. 0:55:44.560 --> 0:55:48.719 He's drunk. He got out of prison in January. Welcome back, 0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:51.840 and he is going to hunt me down. And he 0:55:52.040 --> 0:55:55.240 was released early for being for good behavior. And today 0:55:56.440 --> 0:56:00.880 he works in ceramics. He learned how to, you know, 0:56:01.000 --> 0:56:04.000 throw pottery in prison. He sells his pottery at art 0:56:04.080 --> 0:56:07.760 fairs and around hungry and he does workshops. He's also 0:56:07.960 --> 0:56:11.520 on Instagram. Can I get some of his well, he's 0:56:11.600 --> 0:56:14.520 You can buy his stuff through Instagram. His handle is 0:56:14.680 --> 0:56:20.600 at t E Underscore r E A L Underscore v 0:56:21.000 --> 0:56:27.440 I s z k I S the real VIC. I 0:56:27.480 --> 0:56:29.640 don't know. I'm not smart enough to know the how 0:56:29.640 --> 0:56:32.200 to say the last word. Um, you can buy his wares. 0:56:32.400 --> 0:56:35.760 I want a mug. He does these ceramic fake whiskey bottles. 0:56:36.080 --> 0:56:38.920 Oh yeah, he's does he sign him? Can I get 0:56:38.960 --> 0:56:41.759 like a custom piece? I bet? I bet what's your 0:56:41.840 --> 0:56:46.759 ridiculous takeaway on this, Oh man, my ridiculous takeaway. Look 0:56:46.840 --> 0:56:49.520 what you know a wig can do for a man's confidence? 0:56:49.680 --> 0:56:52.560 You know this. You put him on a hockey ice, 0:56:52.760 --> 0:56:54.880 couldn't even stand up. You give him a wig all 0:56:54.880 --> 0:56:58.880 of a sudden, and he's like, you know what, Suddenly, 0:56:58.960 --> 0:57:01.080 now I can do the rhymes that have only dreamed 0:57:01.120 --> 0:57:04.399 of six Sampson. Yeah, exactly. So you know you care 0:57:04.440 --> 0:57:06.280 about a man who's having a little bit of a problem, 0:57:06.400 --> 0:57:07.919 Maybe get him a wig, Get him a fright wig 0:57:08.640 --> 0:57:10.839 about fun, mix it up, not just one wig. If 0:57:10.840 --> 0:57:12.759 that doesn't work, get him some whiskey. Let's just try 0:57:12.840 --> 0:57:17.240 it all. I think Attila is the apex ridiculous criminals 0:57:17.280 --> 0:57:20.080 so far in our young show. Really well, he doesn't 0:57:20.120 --> 0:57:25.080 hurt people. He don's silly disguises. He does stuff like 0:57:25.240 --> 0:57:27.600 rob the same place twice, or rob a place because 0:57:27.600 --> 0:57:31.720 they messed up his travel arrangement. He has a ridiculously 0:57:31.920 --> 0:57:35.960 unhealthy relationship with alcohol. He can't play hockey, but somehow 0:57:36.040 --> 0:57:40.520 also plays it professionally. Uh. He is the living embodiment 0:57:40.640 --> 0:57:43.960 of my grandma's advice of act like you know, and 0:57:44.400 --> 0:57:47.960 he just bungles his way to success. Plus he gets 0:57:48.040 --> 0:57:50.360 extra points for owning a dog and naming that dog 0:57:50.440 --> 0:57:53.240 don because human names for dogs. That's the way to go. 0:57:53.400 --> 0:57:56.280 You've made your case. Thank you. That's my takeaway. That's excellently. 0:57:57.320 --> 0:58:02.400 I'm done here. I'm over here, sweat dripping delicious, right 0:58:02.440 --> 0:58:07.240 are you dizzy? Dizzy, delicious and drunk? It's amazing. Thank you, 0:58:07.640 --> 0:58:11.040 thank you, thank you all, thank you, thank you, thanks you. 0:58:11.160 --> 0:58:14.520 With the academy. Um, that's it. So you can find 0:58:14.600 --> 0:58:18.080 us online at Ridiculous Crime on both Twitter and Instagram. 0:58:18.520 --> 0:58:20.520 Do you have a tip for us about a ridiculous 0:58:20.600 --> 0:58:22.320 crime you'd like to hear about. Do you want to 0:58:22.400 --> 0:58:25.160 confess to a ridiculous crime? And when I say like 0:58:25.280 --> 0:58:29.640 a crime crime, give it to me, give me good crime? Uh? 0:58:30.200 --> 0:58:32.560 Stuff that like you're going to confess it and pray 0:58:32.720 --> 0:58:34.600 I don't pass it on to the authority. Yeah. Like 0:58:34.640 --> 0:58:36.600 if you and your grandfather once I had like a 0:58:36.720 --> 0:58:38.280 pot field and then you had to rob a bank 0:58:38.360 --> 0:58:40.920 to be able to afford to get the pot field market, 0:58:41.160 --> 0:58:44.800 that's a ridiculous that's no no one dead, no one hurt, 0:58:45.320 --> 0:58:48.120 but ridiculous. But like, legitimately you could have been arrested. 0:58:48.240 --> 0:58:51.080 Email at ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com. Tune in 0:58:51.200 --> 0:58:57.640 next time. Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and 0:58:57.760 --> 0:59:01.360 Zarin Burnett, produced and edited by Dave Kusten. The Transylvanian 0:59:01.520 --> 0:59:05.680 Terror researches by Austrian pelp magn Marissa Brown. The theme 0:59:05.760 --> 0:59:09.360 song is by Hungarian hustler Thomas Lee and Romanian renegade 0:59:09.400 --> 0:59:13.640 Travis Dutton. Executive producers are Ben Buddha Volan and Noel 0:59:13.760 --> 0:59:25.960 pest Brownde. 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