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The World's most Ingenious Thief

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Re: The World's most Ingenious Thief

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You have to give the guy credit. Arrested, he escapes into the ceiling tiles, steals a uniform, and walks out the front door. Arrested by a frackin SWAT team, he steals the squad car he's placed in and makes a run for it? Hats off, ladies and gentlemen; we have a winner.

What I'm afraid of are the multitudes of copycat buglers who may look up to him as a role model, meanwhile causing more harm than good.

The copycat buglers would play reveille as they made their escape :)

Re: The World's most Ingenious Thief

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh noes, another one defending the banks . . . look, it's very SIMPLE: overcharging clients that much simply because the bank in question CAN is predatory to the point where it amounts to stealing, there is no justification for charging that much, specially in a country as poverty ridden as this one. If you like overpaying that much, suit yourself, but defending such institutions at this point is beyond ludicrous.

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/poverty.jpg That is poverty. $5 bank fees is not. Get a new bank or make fewer deposits.

You spoiled little swine, you have no idea, how fng dare you

Calling yourself a hacker while doing .net and flash?

You little PUSSY

You little BITCH

How dare you, sitting in your gluttonous SWINE of a country, you spoiled little swine

Re: The World's most Ingenious Thief

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post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh noes, another one defending the banks . . . look, it's very SIMPLE: overcharging clients that much simply because the bank in question CAN is predatory to the point where it amounts to stealing, there is no justification for charging that much, specially in a country as poverty ridden as this one. If you like overpaying that much, suit yourself, but defending such institutions at this point is beyond ludicrous.

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/poverty.jpg That is poverty. $5 bank fees is not. Get a new bank or make fewer deposits.

Ok, this is enough of little bitches like you, I am leaving this forum, and go interact with

HACKERS

But how fng dare you, you little swine

Bye bye, cretin, and yes, I would say this to your face, would love to

Re: The World's most Ingenious Thief

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post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/poverty.jpg That is poverty. $5 bank fees is not. Get a new bank or make fewer deposits.

Ok, this is enough of little bitches like you, I am leaving this forum, and go interact with HACKERS But how fng dare you, you little swine Bye bye, cretin, and yes, I would say this to your face, would love to

Hasta luego.

Re: The World's most Ingenious Thief

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I wonder how much of the story is true and how much is fabricated by the ego of this guy. It would be all the more believable to the cops interviewing him, they want to believe that they caught the ultimate criminal mastermind. Of course bits of it must be true, the bits with solid corroborating evidence, but I wonder if the truth is quite so cool and impressive?

That's a good thing then, that he videotaped cool and impressive stuff he did and kept records from security cameras that were in place while he was operating.

But to my mind the fact that he videotaped so much really does support the big ego argument. It's the little things that make it all the more impressive and maybe those things weren't directly caught on tape, the article certainly doesn't mention any massively impressive stuff caught on tape and don't you think they would?

All the article really mentions on tape is him going around with a bunch of people emptying ATMs. Now, as far as positions in the criminal underworld go, being the ATM guy is about as low level and grunt workish as you can get, hardly the sort of work you'd expect a criminal mastermind to be doing himself!

Of course neither of us know so this is just idle speculation, I just think these things should be taken with a grain of salt since all the people involved (cops, journalists and the guy himself) have a vested interest in making it sound cooler and more impressive.

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