Your Favourite Outlaw?

DEFTLEFTHAND

I think deep down we all have some admiration for those who buck the system and refuse to conform. They do things their own way. Even though we know they're very wrong and troubled there's still a coolness factor. :cool:

Sometimes there's a noble reason for their defiance but often it's just pure greed and badness, the human condition.:)

Examples of bad asses in history, William 'Billy the Kid' Bonney, Jesse James, Bonnie and Clyde, Salvatore 'Lucky' Luciano, John Gotti.

demanufactured

Stone Cold Steve Austin.

kneemos

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I think deep down we all have some admiration for those who buck the system and refuse to conform. They do things their own way. Even though we know they're very wrong and troubled there's still a coolness factor. :cool:

Sometimes there's a noble reason for their defiance but often it's just pure greed and badness, the human condition.:)

Examples of bad asses in history, William 'Billy the Kid' Bonnie, Jesse James, Bonnie and Clyde, Salvatore 'Lucky' Luciano, John Gotti.

Psychotic scumbags more like.

Mint Sauce

Pete.

preston johnny

The mother in law

Banjo String

Ned Kelly.

Or johnny cash. He shot a man in Reno. "Just to watch him die" FFS.

umop.episdn

"Psycho" Charles J Haughey

fastrac

Josey Wales

ben.schlomo

demanufactured wrote: »

Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Nah surely its The New Age Outlaws.

Yosemite Sam

SEPT 23 1989

Edward Teach

kneemos

Ghandi.
Mother Theresa.

stefan idiot jones

Garth Brooks.

A robbing cnut in a stetson. Fleecing Ireland for compo.

Tin Foil Hat

Dillinger

131spanner

Ned Kelly.

Any man who cuts eye holes in a bucket and calls it a helmet is a hero in my eyes.

Satriale

Pretty Boy Floyd. If Woodie Guthrie is to be believed.

Macavity.

Nuri Sahin

GerB40

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Dillinger

+1 for Dillinger. At one stage he was so rich he just robbed banks for fun. That's badass...

Say Your Number

Black Bart - the gentleman stagecoach robber who left poems behind at the scene of the crime.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Dick Turpin another, the highwayman, "Your money or your life".

I loved the way he accepted the courts decision to execute him, he drank to excess with his associates on his last night in York. He threw himself off the ladder the next morning and hanged the old fashioned way (before the long drop was invented) gurgling and gasping for 15 minutes before he was declared dead.

Timmyctc

kneemos wrote: »

Psychotic scumbags more like.

only took 2 comments for some faux outrage. Congrats.

ch20

John dillinger

DazMarz

Henry Hill - The Original Goodfella

Henry Hill was an Irish-Italian-American, who grew up in a poor area of Brooklyn. Starting out as a juvenile errand boy for members of the Lucchese Crime Family, Henry rapidly ascended the ladder, becoming a well known associate of the Family. Due to not being a full-blooded Italian (his father was Irish-American), Hill could never be "made". This didn't stop him from having direct contact with the upper echelons of the Mafia.

Stints in the Army and prison dotted his career, but it was a fateful decision to enter into the burgeoning drug trade in the late 1970's that brought about Hill's downfall. Arrested for cocaine trafficking in 1980, Hill was looking at 30-years-to-life. He cut a deal, became a "rat" and vanished... until 1990 when one of the greatest films ever made brought Hill's story to the world. Goodfellas, starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Braco, Paul Sorvino and Frank Vincent, is a supreme gangster epic that chronicled Hill's life and crimes.

Bongalongherb

Sabata. He was a good outlaw.

Sir Osis of Liver.

John Gilligan.

corner of hells

DazMarz wrote: »

Henry Hill - The Original Goodfella

Henry Hill was an Irish-Italian-American, who grew up in a poor area of Brooklyn. Starting out as a juvenile errand boy for members of the Lucchese Crime Family, Henry rapidly ascended the ladder, becoming a well known associate of the Family. Due to not being a full-blooded Italian (his father was Irish-American), Hill could never be "made". This didn't stop him from having direct contact with the upper echelons of the Mafia.

Stints in the Army and prison dotted his career, but it was a fateful decision to enter into the burgeoning drug trade in the late 1970's that brought about Hill's downfall. Arrested for cocaine trafficking in 1980, Hill was looking at 30-years-to-life. He cut a deal, became a "rat" and vanished... until 1990 when one of the greatest films ever made brought Hill's story to the world. Goodfellas, starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Braco, Paul Sorvino and Frank Vincent, is a supreme gangster epic that chronicled Hill's life and crimes.

His pizza business is still doing well too.

beano345

Danny greene,Irish mobster in Cleveland.the man who they say took down the Cleveland mafia

gugleguy

The boardsie who used the male genital as his handle on boards.ie. In a thread in the prison forum. No slight on Gordon intended;).

Adamantium

Sean Fitzpatrick ~ steal from the rich to give to the poor

Oh....wait...

gugleguy

Charlie Haughey - acquitted from the 1970's arms trial.

beano345

Frank morris,escapee from alcatraz

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Henri Charrière.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_PnimVyh58

Fat Christy

I'll probably get flayed alive for this but I always liked Martin Cahill aka 'The General'. I know he did some terrible things but I always thought of him as a bad ass with a conscience.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Fat Christy wrote: »

I'll probably get flayed alive for this but I always liked Martin Cahill aka 'The General'. I know he did some terrible things but I always thought of him as a bad ass with a conscience.

He was a character all right (the art heist was genius.. to begin with at least).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN8aOK5CV5A

RobbingBandit

Bret Maverick

House of Blaze

I hear that renegade!

SEPT 23 1989

Fat Christy wrote: »

I'll probably get flayed alive for this but I always liked Martin Cahill aka 'The General'. I know he did some terrible things but I always thought of him as a bad ass with a conscience.

his absolute hatred of the State was admirable

magma69

Trent

Fat Christy

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

He was a character all right (the art heist was genius.. to begin with at least).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN8aOK5CV5A

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

his absolute hatred of the State was admirable

I think he got a bit too greedy in the end. I've read the book and watched the movie and cried at the end of both.

My history teacher told me I was neurotic for feeling any sort of compassion and admiration for such a monster. I told him I like to see the good in everyone. :pac:

I'm still waiting for the flaying to commence.

The Backwards Man

The Duke brothers.

Making their way the only way the know how.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Fat Christy wrote: »

I think he got a bit too greedy in the end.

For me at least, any chance he had of going down in the history books as a loveable rouge, ended when he had the bomb placed in a forensic scientist's car.

The Th!ng

My favourite real-life outlaw would be 'D. B. Cooper'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

D. B. Cooper is a media epithet popularly used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in the airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on November 24, 1971, extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,160,000 in 2014), and parachuted to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and an ongoing FBI investigation, the perpetrator has never been located or positively identified. The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history.

In my opinion his escapade is the definition of what is meant by the term bad-ass.

Galwayguy35

The Monk

Davarus Walrus

Nathan

Arthur Beesley

Adamantium wrote: »

Sean Fitzpatrick ~ steal from the rich to give to the poor

Oh....wait...

What did he 'steal' exactly?

Fair play for the poor having stuff to be stolen, you'd almost say they weren't poor at all in that case.

grey_so_what

Robin Hood, robbed from the rich and gave to the poor....

Hmmm....works the opposite nowadays....

Arthur Beesley

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

his absolute hatred of the State was admirable

But he was still determined to get his social welfare entitlements. Classy.

Reminds me of those 'freeman' ass***es.

And I'm sure anyone who was burgled by Cahill was equally impressed. And he was stupid enough to **** with the IRA

Career criminal scum.

Nothing to admire. Move along.

Arthur Beesley

beano345 wrote: »

Frank morris,escapee from alcatraz

But did he make it to shore alive?

Arthur Beesley

Surprised no one has mentioned Assange or Snowden.

Thankfully Bin Laden was brought to justice and put down like the dog he was.

johnayo

Say Your Number wrote: »

Black Bart - the gentleman stagecoach robber who left poems behind at the scene of the crime.

For a minute there I thought you were talking about good auld Bertie the Teflon Taoiseach :pac:

The Diabolical Monocle

That barefoot thief guy ... Or nickname along those lines ... Basically a teenager who went on a massive run of theft of boats and small planes. Some speculate he has the ass-burgers but he managed to learn to fly just from books and videos and managed to outwit and evade the law while generating a fan base.

Now he's in jail in the us iirc - being bummed. Ah well can't win em all.



Barefoot bandit. Colton harris.
Crashed a stolen plane into an Indian reservation, puking all over it in his near death escape, before stealing a powerboat to go to the Bahamas where he'd break into peoples houses for icecreams lol