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Paleokostas/Kodos 2012
Somehow out of the blue, the strangely morbid yet delightfully Hollywood-esque story of Greek modern day Robin Hood Vassilis Paleokostas re-emerged today. Which, considering the latest developments out of Greece is probably oddly appropriate: if there is anything the Greek population needs now to finally free itself of its usurping, unelected and banker-appointed technocratic oligarchy, which does nothing but keep selling the nation ever further down the river just so it can use Greece as a passthru funding vehicle to keep Europe's banks solvent, it is many more like Paleokostas. And incidentally, so does the US, when considering the farce the country's "democratic process" has become, where both parties are merely representative agents of the Wall Street banking class (recall who the main funders are of the last three presidential campaigns). It is thus our belief that in keeping with the endless global Onion-esque farce that has gripped the world, Kodos (of Simpsons fame) is a perfect running mate for Paleokostas' presidential campaign - a campaign that is suitable not just for the US, but for any country which is controlled not by democratic checks-and-balances, but by bank issued checks (backed by nothing but electronic "money"). Because the farce will truly be strong with those two. And that, unfortunately, is all that makes any sense in this centrally planned world.
Courtesy of our own William Banzai, the campaign art work is already prepared.
Why Paleokostas? A brief primer on Paleokostas courtesy of badassoftheweek.com
Vassilis Paleokostas
What do you get when you cross Jesse James, Robin Hood, and Jack Bauer in the body of a giant, bearded, bald Greek man?
Meet Vassilis Paleokostas:
This crazy, utterly fearless dude is public enemy number one in Greece, and probably one of the most badass motherfuckers to come from the country since the days of our friend Leonidas.
Vassilis' story starts back in the early 90s, when he went on an insane crime spree of delicious armed robbery, blackmail, extortion, and kidnapping. Basically, his modus operandi was to kidnap a super-rich bastard, hold him for a ridiculous ransom, and then sell him back to his stupid family in exchange for giant piles of cold, hard cash. Then, he'd take that bling, keep a small percentage of it for himself, and distribute the rest of his newly-acquired wealth to impoverished farmers of the tiny rural province in which he grew up. The dude quickly made a name for himself as the Robin Hood of Greece, and was beloved by fans of badassery, the people of the lower classes, and pretty much anybody else he wasn't in the process of robbing or extorting for money. Shit, even the fucking people he kidnapped came out later and said that he was very polite and respectful to them while they were in captivity, and that it was pretty much the most pleasant kidnapping they'd ever experienced. That should give you some indication of what this dude was all about – steal from the rich, give to the poor, make a profit in the process, and be completely awesome all of the goddamned time. He also made a vow never to harm a member of the public in his criminal escapades. He's been true to his word.
In true badass fashion, Vassilis Paleokostas also has a trusty sidekick – a lunatic Albanian named Alket Rizai. Rizai is like the Friar Tuck in this story, only if instead of being a benevolent, staff-swinging priest, the clergyman was a crazy gunman with a hair-trigger and a penchant for firing automatic weapons at heavily-armed tactical police officers. Rizai is currently up on charges for murder, though I haven't really been able to track down any details about any of that (that's the problem with trying to research current events, I suppose). My assumption is that he was being attacked by some evil corrupt officers sent by the Sherriff of Nottingham and responded by burning a full clip of Uzi ammunition into them, jumping through a plate glass window, rescuing a damsel in distress, and swinging off on a chandelier with a hot babe clinging to his rippling biceps. According to a Greek friend of mine, this guy once blew up a known Mafia hangout by shooting it with a fucking rocket launcher.
Of course, the downside to being a career criminal – even a happy-go-lucky one who commits non-violent crimes in the name of the oppressed populace – is that eventually the long arm of the law is going to bitch-slap you in the fucking face really really hard. In 1995, Vassilis Paleokostas was caught by the fuzz, convicted of kidnapping, robbery, and weapons charges, and hauled off to a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary known as Korydallos Prison.
Now over the years, Korydallos Prison has gained a reputation as being one of the harshest and most brutal prisons in Greece. This place is like a mix between Andersonville, Oz, and that stupid plastic box they keep Magneto inside in the X-Men movies. The warden is a hardass son-of-a-bitch, the guards don't give a shit, and people that go inside the facility never come out.
Except Vassilis Paleokostas.
In June 2006, Paleokostas' older brother (another pathological criminal who is now serving jail time on 16 counts of armed robbery) commandeered a helicopter, and landed it right in the middle of the fucking exercise yard of the prison in broad daylight. The armed guards at Korydallos, not expecting to be subjected to such an unbelievable display of gigantic steel-plated testicles, assumed that this chopper belonged to the warden or the Chief of Prisons or something, and instead of investigating it they all decided to make sure their shoes were appropriately spit-shined so as not to incur a citation from their wrathful bosses. Vassilis (who had orchestrated the entire operation from the beginning) and his Albanian buddy simply walked up to the helicopter, hopped inside, and lifted off. By the time the guards got their heads out of their asses and started firing their guns at the bird, it was already too late. Paleokostas had escaped.
So the Greek police put out an all-points bulletin, and a nation-wide manhunt began for the Greek Robin Hood. Officers, dogs, and federal agents scoured the countryside for this fugitive day and night, relentlessly following leads and doing everything in their power to bring this wanted criminal to justice.
Paleokostas evaded them for two and a half years. He lived in the mountains outside Athens, evaded all attempts to recapture him, and even orchestrated another high-profile kidnapping in the process – snatching a powerful jackass CEO industrialist, ransoming him for a huge wad of cash, and once again distributing the loot to local farmers and families. There are also rumors that he planned and executed another kidnapping while he was still incarcerated, which is bonus points no matter how you look at it.
In August 2008, Paleokostas was tracked down and re-captured by the Greek police. He was placed in a different maximum security facility, where he was held for another six months, awaiting trial for his brazen escape in 2006. On 21 February 2009, Vassilis Paleokostas was transferred back to his old home – Korydallos Prison. His trial was to begin on the 23rd, and he was to stay in his former holding area while he stood trial for this crime.
But he never made it to trial. The very next day, 22 February, ANOTHER FUCKING HELICOPTER showed up in the skies above Korydallos Prison. It flew over a large tower of the prison, lowered a long rope ladder, and Vassilis Paleokostas and Alket Rizai climbed up into the chopper. As the helicopter flew off into the sunset, the prisoners of Korydallos cheered.
Greek police opened fire on the chopper as it flew off, but a woman returned fire with an AK-47 assault rifle. Now having hot Greek babes with automatic weapons come save your ass from prison isn't the sort of thing that happens to normal people every day, but that's just how things work out for you when you're a badass like Vassilis Paleokostas.
The police eventually tracked down the helicopter, and found that it had ditched on the side of the road outside Athens with a bullet hole in the gas tank. According to the pilot, Paleokostas and his associates left the chopper and drove off on totally sweet motorcycles to an undisclosed location. They also popped some totally bitchin' wheelies while doing so.
Vassilis not only earned his freedom for the second time, and once again showed the world that his ballsack is roughly the size of a small continent, but he also got some sweet delicious revenge on the motherfuckers in charge of the Greek prison system at the same time. For allowing the same guy to escape the same prison in the same manner twice in a row, the Greek government fired the country's Chief of Prisons, the Inspector-General of Prisons, the warden of Korydallos, and three guards at the facility. They all learned what it means to step to somebody as awesome as the Greek Robin Hood.
Vassilis Paleokostas is fully rad because he kicked ass, won the respect of the people, said "fuck you" to the police, and managed to single-handedly place the country's three top-ranking prison officials in the back of the unemployment line.
He is still at large.
And why Kodos? Simple
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Fuck Yeah! Spartacus is BACK!!!
the reason he went to jail was twofold.
1. He gave the money back to the poor. If your going to steal you have to keep all for yourself (bankers/politicians)
2. He didn't steal enough money. You steal a million bucks you go to jail you make a billion "vaporize" from the poor have a few politicians in your pocket, you live the good life.
When you work for Goldman, fund raiser for Obama, are a politician and steal from farmers while you are caught prejudicing your self well then your unfucking untouchable asshole.
knight99
"the reason he went to jail was twofold."
Um no. The reason he went to jail was HE GOT CAUGHT!
Everything after that is meaningless.
Paulson was CAUGHT and is still a very free man same Corzone/Bush jr/Every CB in europe (bond swap clearlly illgal)/ECB etc etc etc. Getting caught doesnt put you in jail
I loved reading that story!
WAW!!
Nice to know someone reads the shit I find no matter how obscure.
I found this after the original post. Has the stench of setup. Now he is a TERRORIST with ties to ANARCHISTS, THE HORROR!
http://www.grreporter.info/en/one_million_euros_award_finding_paleokosta...
One million euros award for finding Paleokostas09 February 2011 /
The Greek police announced an award of one million euros to anyone who can submit information to trace Vassilis Paleokostas. The most wanted criminal in the country has troubled the the authorities for decades. While at the beginning of his "career" he acted with his brother Nikos as "Robin Hood" for the poor and downtrodden his image has been seriously hurt recently.
The criminal Vassilios Paleokostas sent to the Ministry of Citizens Protection the bomb that exploded on June 24, 2010 in the hands of the police officer George Vasilakis, aide to the then Prime Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, according to an official announcement of the Greek police.
It also claims that the 45-year-old fugitive was the man who shot at police officers from the Livadia police station and wounded one of them last Sunday.
The Greek police unraveled both cases after finding Paleokostas’ finger prints on parts of the envelope in which the bomb was sent as well as on the car the the criminal and his accomplice abandoned in Viotia region after the shooting with the police three days ago. According to sources cited by Vima newspaper, the police had identified the man who was in the car with Paleokostas during the chase to capture them. The investigation has already been undertaken by the anti-terror services.
Following these revelations the investigation office in Athens issued an arrest warrant for Vassilis Paleokostas. Authorities accused him of involvement in a terrorist group, commitment of terrorist acts, murder, construction and possession of explosive mechanism of terrorist organization and deadly explosion.
The anti-terroris officers have had numerous reports in recent years that Vassilis Paleokostas had frequent contacts with 2-3 people who were among the main focal points of urban guerillas in Greece. It is believed that the 45 years old criminal offender had the support of anarchists from Thessaloniki in the abduction of the businessman George Milonas. Later he got in touch with persons suspected to be involved in armed groups to deliver him weapons on Crete. According to information from the anti-terrorist service to which Vima newspaper refers, Vassilis Paleokostas funded the so-called "revolutionary fund" of the armed groups with some of the ransom taken for the release of the Thessaloniki businessman Milonas.
Vassilis Paleokostas was arrested for the abduction in the summer of 2008 but escaped from prison by helicopter for the second time in February 2009. He has been wanted by the police ever since.
On April 15, 2009 Paleokostas fell into a police blockade in Alepohori village near Athens. After the shooting he managed to escape and cover his traces. The police have been gathering various data about his whereabouts for quite some time. According to some of it, Paleokostas escaped to Albania and was in Brazil for a certain period of time. Some vague information involved him in bank robberies that were committed in areas of central Greece, Epirus and the Peloponnese in recent months but these data were not confirmed. According to the latest police information, Paleokostas was hiding somewhere in Thessaloniki.
As for the clash with the police in Livadia on Sunday morning it was originally assumed that this was a "gang of foreigners" involved in a number of burglaries. Now the police are considering the possible involvement of Vassilis Paleokostas in robberies. A possible link between the shooting with the police officers and those bandit attacks is also being investigated.
http://www.nycaviation.com/2011/02/greece-offers-1-3-million-reward-for-...
Greece Offers $1.3 Million Reward for Suspected Terrorist who Escaped Prison via Helicopter… Twice...
Two days before the bombing, security forces conducted an operation to capture Paleokostas but failed, and during a shootout that broke out during the operation in Boeotia – located in the northern area of Athens – a local police officer was wounded.
http://www.grreporter.info/en/vassilis_paleokostas_has_delivered_bomb_in...
Vassilis Paleokostas has delivered the bomb intended for Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis24 November 2010
According to a senior officer from the Ministry of Citizens Protection "Vassilis Paleokostas has delivered the bomb intended to assassinate the then Prime Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis that exploded in the hands of his aide George Vassilakis." "The case is almost revealed. Fingerprint of the known criminal and jail escaper was found, using special chemical substances, on part of the outer envelope of the package which remained after the powerful explosion. We also have strong evidence and information as to the person who assembled the explosive mechanism and the overall plan of the attack. We are worried that there might be a new attack by the same group."
Today's edition of the Greek newspaper To Vima reads that the source of this information is a senior officer in the ministry who monitors all armed attacks carried out in recent months by the new generation of terrorists in Greece.
The bomb that exploded on June 24 and killed the aide was hidden in a package sent to the political office of the then Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis in the Athens district of Kolonaki. It was forwarded from there to his office in the Ministry for Citizens Protection without any check. The text that was sent to the daily Eleftherotypia 15 days later described the packing and delivery mode. The author signed at the bottom as Thanassis Klaras, which is the real name of Aris Velouhiotis - Chief of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), which is the armed unit of the National Liberation Front (EAM) at the time of the German occupation of Greece during the World War II. None of the organizations, however, took responsibility for the attack in the text.
Officers say that "we had many verified reports that Vassilis Paleokostas had close relations with 2-3 known anarchists in recent months with whom they carried out common actions. However, we were very surprised when we found his fingerprint on a piece of the package. It is obvious that he took part in the plan of attack and has taken great risk to forward the killing package. He did not want to use gloves so as not to cause doubts in the postal branch probably because the attack happened in the summer. We assume that he touched the package by mistake there." Anyway, Vassilis Paleokostas has never been involved in an attack against human life – a fact the police officers recognized too. They believe, however, that the exploding device has been assembled by an anarchist who has contacts with other suspects for financial support to armed groups, but also with other criminals.
The police found evidence for interaction between anarchists and criminals not for the first time. The first evidence, that Paleokostas and his close ally have contacts with anarchists and former members of the "anti-state struggle" group, appear in 1995-1996. In 2001 anarchists help the criminal Costas Pasaris escape from Korydallos prison and plan with him to attack another prison to ensure the escape of Paleokostas. Police have registered his contacts with anarchists in prison in the period 2001-2006. ? complaint is made on August 31, 2007 for theft of two cars from a house in Thesalonika neighbourhood Analipsi. One of the cars was found with Paleokostas a year later and it became clear that the other car was used by the members of Revolutionary Struggle.
In 2008 two anarchists helped Paleokostas in the abduction of the businessman George Milonas in Thessaloniki. Other anarchists visited him in the Korydallos prison. Last year, after his second ostensible escape by helicopter along with Alket Rizai, the police discovered after tracing the phone calls that Paleokostas has arrangements with anarchists to carry weapons on the island of Crete. Only a few months ago in a letter to a central edition he made a charge of attempted murder against police officers who chased him in the area of Alepohori and wrote critical comments against the then Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis.
Vassilis Paleokostas was born in 1966 in the village of Moshato near the town of Trikala. Since the mid 1980s they carried out numerous thefts and robberies along with his brother Nikos. The two brothers kidnapped the businessman Alexandros Haitoglou in 1995. Police caught him but in June 2006 he escaped from prison by helicopter together with Alket Rizai. He was caught again in the summer of 2008 after the abduction of the businessman George Milonas. Vassilis Paleokostas has not yet been captured after his movie-like second helicopter escape from Korydallos in February 2009 again together with the Albanian prisoner.
Fingerprints were found on paper from the enevelope containing a bomb that killed a cop? Pardon me, but wouldn't a bomb, powerful enough to kill a health male adult, tend to destroy the envelope that contained it, more or less completely? Besides, someone smooth enough to escape twice by helicopter from a high security prison, is smooth enough to think of using rubber gloves when bomb making, or even rinsing everything in alchohol. This is about the clumsiest frame job I have ever read about. He should kidnap the troika, and then run for benovelent dictator if Greece. He'd be a shoo in.
Chuck Norris better watch his back...lol
Chuck Norris is endorsing Newt!@#$? Why did you back that prima donna, ballerina wantta be? Why Chuck?
Back to Vassils, I wish we could get him into office somewhere.
Vassilis Paleokostas, Greek bitchez!
'He is still at large.'
Almost as scary as Corzine still being at large.
I love how these 'Dirty Laundry' gossip hours detract from the fact that the infamous "Greek Bailout' is in actuality about SocGen not triggering a 2008 Redux and CDS going extinct shortly being followd by everything else.
Actually he was reapprehended in Nov 09.
Helo trifecta now in play.
solidarity, BiCheZ!
http://quantumpranx.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/sheeple.jpg
Hope sometimes comes out of the end of a gun barrel.
R. Heud
I wish I had balls of that magnitude. I have however been successfully neuterd through marriage and children.
http://youtu.be/SxwTaPK9me8
Paleokostas!
Fuck yeah! Comin' again to save the mother fuckin' day yeah!
Paleokostas!
Fuck yeah! Freedom is the only way yeah!
Trioka your game is through, 'cause now you have to answer to...
Paleokostas!
fuck yeah! So lick his butt and suck his balls!
Paleokostas!
fuck yeah! Whatcha gonna do when he comes for you now?
It's the dream that we all share
It's the rope for the troika! Fuck yeah.
You have been paying too much attention to that backwater, worth nothing of a country lately. As if it is the beginning and the end of the global Ponzi.
Yup, reading the comments to this mindless story confirms that we're all in trouble.
AR was right, decisions by a mob will never be good ones...
Glad we've taken precautions against the great unwashed here on the farm
while bankers are free to do god's work the anti gods do jail time for defying the gods. the new hero same as the old hero.
One Bad Ass Mother Fucker ...
Respect!
Article, excellent. Graphic, excellent. Laughs, plentiful.
Thug Life Fo Sho
We need to figure out how Kostas can steal billions and give it to all Greeks, since they are now the poor.
good point. you teach a people to fish, but can you teach a people to have giant balls?
"A working class hero is someone to be." John Lennon. He would be proud!
"Somehow out of the blue, the strangely morbid yet delightfully Hollywood-esque story of Greek modern day Robin Hood Vassilis Paleokostas re-emerged today."
Except Hollywood doesn't make movies challenging the modern paradigm. They only make movies challenging fictional paradigms or ones no longer relevant.
Someone is calling in favors right now...
Always twirling twirling towards freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLR3CgeUeyc
Kodos the Executioner. Bitches.
The EU Commission wants to give Greek "employees"paid leave of absence so they can go and help Greece. Truckloads of People's Commissars will arrive to take control and bev a true Force of Occupation
Want to be King?
Start a Bank.....
Paleokostas and Anonymous could draw a crowd...
IN TWO YEARS 25% OF GREEKS WILL FIT THIS PROFILE!
Oh, when did the writers from Cracked.com become guest posters on zerohedge?
Yes, this is easily the most puerile thing I've ever seen one of the Tylers post.
I LOVE ZH but, really... c'mon.
oh, thx, I already thought I would be the only one... as I wrote a few times, one Tyler caters to the wants of a particular sub-set of readers: the puerile, the witty, the nihilist, the anarchist and those who love when things crash. It is entertaining, though...
Morbo: (on TV) In business news, the weak and gullible inhabitants of Earth were plunged into economic depression today as the scammer aliens finished stealing every item of value, including ownership of this station.
Kodos is the shit.
I feel like unicron is coming and he's really pissed. Wow that's pretty damn nerdy for me to say that.
You got the touch, take care zh haha
Did a jury convict this guy? Or, is that form of justice allowed in Greece. One day soon, it may be the only tool we have left in the US...and our power to say "NOT GUILTY" is so underutilized today it's pathetic.
go Paleokostas!
In one of his bank heists, he ensured that the single police car in a remote small town was trapped between two cars, so that the cops could not give chase.
When the officers ran on foot to get him, he dispened large bills into the air so that people trying to pick them up, to get in their way!
Even though he has commited many burglaries and heists, there never was a single death or injury involved...
Nevertheless, both brothers are convicted criminals by Greek justice.
He's a criminal!!!!
He's a anarchist
He the antichrist!!!!
It's nice to finally have a hero in this miasma of pig shit.
He's the John Daly of Greece!!! LOL