Sumo wrestler rips out cash machine and makes his getaway with it on his shoulders

[littleoldme]

A man believed to be a sumo wrestler ripped out a cash machine weighing 90kg (200lb) and made off with it on his shoulders, police in Moscow report.

The suspect and an accomplice were arrested after being stopped in a BMW with tinted windows which they were driving without number-plates.
The machine containing 25,320 roubles ($850, £560) was found in the car.



more here:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8553229.stm


Sadly there is no video, however you can't have everything, so you'll just have to imagine it happening :)

[CrackFox]

I love the quote from the Moscow police dept. referring to the guy's acomplice as a rascal.

[JohnnyCache]

whoa. Those things only way 90kg?

[Larus marinus]

whoa. Those things only way 90kg?

Some of the free-standing cash machines, of the type you find in small local shops and garages (the ones in the UK that usually charge you £1 to use) are pretty small. Slightly taller than a washing machine and not as wide.

Unless they're weighted inside (I dunno) and were they not bolted firmly to the floor, they look like something that a guy who could carry a washing machine on his own could pick up and hump a short distance to a getaway car/truck...

[Justin C]

the only image in my mind is....awsome.

[battlefields]

Those sumo and their crazy training techniques.

[TheRuss]

This is so gangsta it makes my head hurt.

[Matt Tower]

Someone has to create a video re-enactment of this, including the rascal remark by the russian police

[Byuki]

That was so awesome I think I wet myself a little... In all seriousness that's pretty cool as wrong as it may be.

[Necroyunus]

****, i have to transition into sumo asap

it is the deadly