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06:18:11 Devastator: "He began his criminal career in 1988 when he found himself needing a small amount of money to kickstart a new career as a sausage-vendor on Germany's streets."
06:19:45 Devastator: A guy known as Dagobert.
06:19:53 Devastator: the greatest German extortionist in history.
06:21:08 Devastator: sadly, he never got paid off, although reports say that in the last couple attempts, the cops would have given him the money if the handoffs worked.
06:22:17 Devastator: (well, no, he got paid off for his first attempt in 1988. He tried again in 1992-4.)
06:23:00 Devastator: (in 1988, the newly reunified german state didn't really have the police force to catch him. He got his money by having the cops ride a train and throw the money out the back at a point where he signaled them by radio.)
06:23:19 Devastator: (Since they couldn't have the entire rail line patrolled by cops..)
06:24:06 Devastator: (In 1992 he started using remote-controlled devices, starting with one that they'd attach to the back of the train. Eventually he went to more complicated schemes, as the police proved entirely willing and capable of staking out the entire railway line.
06:25:44 Devastator: There were several times where he got away with the money pack, except the cops didn't put money in it.
06:25:57 Devastator: usually he'd follow that up with another bomb.
06:27:09 Devastator: Also, he called himself the German name for Scrooge McDuck.
06:29:05 Devastator: there were a lot of T-shirts sold with "I am Dagobert" on them.
06:29:29 Devastator: mostly because he never hurt anyone, and his bombings were very precise.
06:30:25 MJ: So very clever and somewhat crazy extoronist who mostly liikes to cause very large problems for large entities and no one else. I can see why people found him entertaining~
06:32:36 Devastator: also a couple of the handover devices were genuinely brilliant.
06:33:29 Devastator: One was a fake box for road grit with a false bottom, homemade and placed over a sewer entrance. Put the money in the box full of sand, and he then hits a button that drops the contents down into the sewer, where he is.
06:33:56 Devastator: had a radio reciever near it so he could hear what the police were saying and know when the money is in it and nobody's standing next to it.
06:34:11 Devastator: got away with the package there, but there was no money.
06:36:11 Devastator: It is. It's one of the most ordinary items imaginable.
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