Breathe out, Citizens of the World, for officials finally have slain India's Robin Hood, the infamous Veerappan. After decades on the run, he was killed in a gunfight with members of the Special Task Force that was formed specifically to bring him and his famous moustache to justice.

Veerappan was known as the Indian Robin Hood because he was perceived to commit crimes against the rich, though his victims were primarily policemen, forest rangers, elephants, whose tusks he poached, and sandalwood trees, which he smuggled. There are no reports of him giving much of anything to the poor, other than the joy a huge moustache brings.


Veerappan, behind the moustache above, stole more than the tusks of endangered Indian elephants -- he stole his country's heart... and its sandalwood.

Analogcabin @ 8:41 AM
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