Bandito
18th March 2011, 18:57
...that aren't famous or Hollywood didn't made a movie about. Common people whose lives were out of the normal fashion. I'll start off with a drunkard who robbed tens of banks in Hungary, managed to be an animal fur smuggler, a reserve goalkeeper for a hockey club, and a gentleman.
It's a story made for Hollywood, but this is a true-life tale of a Transylvanian-born ice-hockey player turned bank robber. A gentleman- bandit who slugged back a shot of whisky before each of his 29 heists across Budapest, and who, when finally arrested, escaped from prison by tying sheets together. Now incarcerated in a high-security jail, Attila Ambrus, known as the "Whisky Robber", is serving 15 years for armed robbery, but his status as a Hungarian folk hero is assured. He gave flowers to female cashiers as he held up the banks, went home to pick up his dog with the police on his tail, and fled one crime scene by diving into the Danube.
Whole story here. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/attila-ambrus-the-legend-of-the-whisky-robber-675500.html)
It's a story made for Hollywood, but this is a true-life tale of a Transylvanian-born ice-hockey player turned bank robber. A gentleman- bandit who slugged back a shot of whisky before each of his 29 heists across Budapest, and who, when finally arrested, escaped from prison by tying sheets together. Now incarcerated in a high-security jail, Attila Ambrus, known as the "Whisky Robber", is serving 15 years for armed robbery, but his status as a Hungarian folk hero is assured. He gave flowers to female cashiers as he held up the banks, went home to pick up his dog with the police on his tail, and fled one crime scene by diving into the Danube.
Whole story here. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/attila-ambrus-the-legend-of-the-whisky-robber-675500.html)