Legless' story reminds me
I lived in a small Greek town that experienced the most inept bank robbery in history.

So one day, the robber, Yiannis, screeches up to the town's bank in his car and storms in with a gun and a balaclava , shouting for them to give him the money. The teller in this small community recognises him straight away and says "Hi, Yiannis! Is this a joke?" But the gun persuades him to hand over the money.

Oddly enough, Yiannis was tracked down to his home, about 500m from the bank, the very next day. The clues are compelling: Yiannis was the only man within 100 square miles (possibly in the whole of Greece) who owned a black Pontiac Firebird (think Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit) - the car used in the robbery and now parked outside his house. And the police didn't have to look far for the gun - Yiannis had borrowed it from the town's single policeman on the morning of the robbery and taken it back the same evening.

Only in Greece.
(frankspencer, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 12:34, 3 replies)

Ah, the Greeks...
Isn’t Greece fantastic? Lowest standard of living in Europe apparently (according to Time Bandits anyway).

Slightly related, but off topic – when the sweary missus lived on Kos, she was tickled by the fact that the two guys that drove / operated the shit wagon (i.e. emptied the septic tanks) in the morning, were also the ambulance drivers in the afternoon. And this, the island where the father of modern medicine lived…
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 11 Jan 2008, 14:01, closed)

Ancient
I don't think it's changed much since antiquity when every town was a country unto itself. Even in Athens, the mentality has barely changed from the Middle Ages.
(frankspencer, Fri 11 Jan 2008, 14:11, closed)

True...
Nice people though. Mostly.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 11 Jan 2008, 14:16, closed)