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Your Favourite Outlaw?

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    #62
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Stone Cold Steve Austin.

    What!!!!!!


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    #63
    Tyson Lannister
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭Tyson Lannister


    Willie nelson


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    #64
    Angry_Mammarys
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    Grace O'Malley, not sure if she was an actual outlaw though in fairness, but she was cool.


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    #65
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »
    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

    Crikey. Hadn't heard of him before your post. Would make a cracking Scorsese film for sure.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQpkUf3fyrw


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    #66
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    beano345 wrote: »
    Danny greene,Irish mobster in Cleveland.the man who they say took down the Cleveland mafia

    I actually watched a documentary about him during the week. (not the movie.)

    He was the main reason the mob fell from it's perch in Cleveland. He wasn't even affiliated with the real Irish Mob in the city at the time, he made a one stand basically (a few associates here and there 'the Celtic Club') against the mafia's infiltrations of trade unions. He refused to back down and dodged attempts on his life for years, The New York Families and rest of the Mafia Commission offered assistance but the Cleveland mob were too proud to accept.

    His eventual murder in a car bomb crippled the city's mob, all the top brass got done. Today they're considered as a street gang, they've lost all the power and influence they had in their hayday.


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    #67
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Raoul Moate featuring a cameo from Gazza. Favourite isn't a good term here obviously but it had the whole North East of England on lock down for a few days, was of great interest from a media standpoint.


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    #68
    Cienciano
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    Say Your Number wrote: »
    Black Bart - the gentleman stagecoach robber who left poems behind at the scene of the crime.

    Did you have outlaw top trumps by any chance?


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    #69
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Just reading up on outlaw trucking in the USA before the DOT clamped down, apparently some guys would ride the left lane, carry 'hot' loads and ignore hours of service. Drive cross country without sleeping.:eek::pac:

    James Edward Ganntt who operated from the early 60s to 2009 was one of these modern day cowboys. His CB handle was the Southern Shaker, he even has a song written about him. :pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhj9g6y_u8g


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    #70
    FunLover18
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    I know it's late/early (depending how you look at it) lads but c'mon!!! How has no one mentioned The A-Team!?!?



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    #71
    mikemac1
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    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.

    I thought he was rescued at the last moment by his comrades?


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    #72
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I thought he was rescued at the last moment by his comrades?

    No Turpin hanged. His comrades were in York because the jailers allowed him to have a night with them, they drank and made merry in the jails common area. Apparently at the prison stables he also got to say goodbye to his famous horse Black Bess who his associates had brought down.


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    #73
    cloud493
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    Starlord.


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    #74
    darkdubh
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    This photo appears to show several Wild West legends in the same gathered photo but its widely thought to be faked.


    http://gizzardstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/KGrHqFikE5erjTlPMBObUptzIRg60_31.jpg


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    #75
    castletownman
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    Francis "Fran" Cooney. The grovely voice, the mad cap antics and the wit.

    Coola Boola Nidgey. Coola Boola.


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    #76
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    This photo appears to show several Wild West legends in the same gathered photo but its widely thought to be faked.


    http://gizzardstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/KGrHqFikE5erjTlPMBObUptzIRg60_31.jpg

    Cool photo but does look faked alright. Very few of these guys ever stepped in front of a camera, for instance the original tintype and only pic ever taken of Billy the Kid sold for 2.3 million dollars at auction in 2011.


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    #77
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Cantremember


    A real outlaw is someone who stands in defiance of unjust and oppressive laws: not some scrote who thinks he's above basic human decency and society. So to answer the OP: Mandela, Schindler, Martin Niemoller....and those who campaigned in Ireland against the laws against contraception and being gay. So Mary Robinson is one of the greatest outlaws for me.


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    #78
    the purple tin
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    Seems funny how nutjob serial killers from the old west eventually become admired folk heros in america.


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    #79
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    Seems funny how nutjob serial killers from the old west eventually become admired folk heros in america.

    Well said, the likes of Jesse James for instance is held up as being some sort of American folk hero. The James Gang were a ruthless bunch of thugs who had a policy of killing innocent witnesses to their crimes. Bob Ford did the world a favour when he put a slug in Jesse.


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