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Ronnie Biggs makes miraculous return to health

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  • #2
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Ah Good man himself.

    I know no-one will agree with me, but he's done time enough. Nowadays the sentence would be ridiculously small.
    He's old, he played a minor role as it was. Let him go and die a free man.


  • #3
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Fair play tbh


  • #4
    procure11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭procure11


    Tbh,I think he'll get more satisfaction from this heist than the former..:D


  • #5
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭TPD


    Fair enough I think. This is the train robber guy right? I dont think he has it in him to rob another train.


  • #6
    mike65
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    Hope he dies soon.


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  • #7
    TanG411
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    The man escaped prison. . . He's a legend :pac:


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mike65 wrote: »
    Hope he dies soon.
    I expect he will!


  • #9
    Dennis the Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    I hope now, with his newfound freedom, he doesn't go off the rails, etc.


  • #10
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    He said last week that he'd have the last laugh

    cocky bastard or what =p


  • #11
    andrew
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭andrew


    procure11 wrote: »
    Ronnie Biggs was released last week due to the fact that his health had so deterioted that he could die anytime .Medical reports even suggested he could die before his 80th birthday last saturday but it seems the mean dude is still kicking.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205748/Buoyant-Ronnie-Biggs-looks-ready-home-just-days-prison-release.html

    I might be wrong but I feel he just beat the system once again ...at least in the short run!.

    Your thoughts folks?

    Still though, he's not exactly a picture of health. That pic makes him look senile if nothing else.


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  • #12
    procure11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭procure11


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I expect he will!

    But so the Doctors said a few weeks ago!!!...simply explains the difference between wisdom and knowledge..


  • #13
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,103 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Ronnie Biggs meh. C.J. Haughey FTW. Stole way more than Biggs, didn't spend a day in jail. Didn't even have to go on trial because of "health reasons". Lived on for many more years in luxury on a par with kings :rolleyes:

    "Make no mistake. The days of the internal combustion engine are definitely numbered" - Quentin Willson, 1997



  • #14
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,182 ✭✭✭dvpower


    brummytom wrote: »
    Ah Good man himself.

    Didn't the train driver die of injuries sustained during the robbery?


  • #15
    skelliser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    due to his strokes he cant speak


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
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    dvpower wrote: »
    Didn't the train driver die of injuries sustained during the robbery?

    Not proven, but could have contributed.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963)#Aftermath
    Jack Mills' assailant was one of two members of the gang who was never identified but is thought to be "Buster" Edwards. Frank Williams (at the time a Detective Inspector) claims to have traced the man, but he could not be charged because of lack of evidence. Mills had constant trauma headaches the rest of his life. He died in 1970 from leukaemia.


  • #17
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,962 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    The sentiment on this thread is incredibly mean spritied.:( Biggs has more than paid his dues to society. Let the man die in peace.

    Agree with the CJ Haughey comment...


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 31,828 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    The sentiment on this thread is incredibly mean spritied.:( Biggs has more than paid his dues to society. Let the man die in peace.

    Agree with the CJ Haughey comment...

    He spent most of that time sticking two fingers up while on the run, he only came home when the money ran out and his health was failing.


  • #19
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiXl-UiIufE


  • #20
    pokerface_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭pokerface_me


    mike65 wrote: »
    Hope he dies soon.

    Thats nice of ya, what did he ever do on you?

    Back to subject you've got to admire the bloke, 2 fingers to the system time an time again.


  • #21
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    pokerface_me wrote: »
    Thats nice of ya, what did he ever do on you?

    Back to subject you've got to admire the bloke, 2 fingers to the system time an time again.

    He is absolute scum. What is to admire about him? I am absolutely amazed at the iconic status that **** has achieved.


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  • #22
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Nah he's a piece low rent scum, he just happened to have a charming cheeky persona that got him a long way until the cash ran out and the tabloids got bored.


  • #23
    Dennis the Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    Ronnie Biggs is history's greatest monster.

    Correction, it's actually Charlie Haughey, also mentioned in this thread.


  • #24
    That_Guy
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    Larkin501 wrote: »
    The man escaped prison. . . He's a legend :pac:

    So did Mr. Scofield but you don't hear him bragging.


  • #25
    a-k-47
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭a-k-47


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    He is absolute scum. What is to admire about him? I am absolutely amazed at the iconic status that **** has achieved.

    enlighten me


  • #26
    procure11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 421 ✭✭procure11


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    He is absolute scum. What is to admire about him? I am absolutely amazed at the iconic status that **** has achieved.

    I think you are profoundly emotional in your assertion.
    Tbh Ronnie Biggs would be a saint compared to some politicians and bankers in Ireland of Today...
    at least he stole money and did not need state guarantees on his loot...:D


  • #27
    Dennis the Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    I hope Biggs covets an orange, reaches for the fruit bowl, but instead falls and breaks both hips. The public deserves this at least.

    But seriously, the geezer never showed a shred of remorse.

    Why would he though, I suppose. He's had a great life thanks to his notoriety.


  • #28
    Gyalist
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    unkel wrote: »
    Ronnie Biggs meh. C.J. Haughey FTW. Stole way more than Biggs, didn't spend a day in jail. Didn't even have to go on trial because of "health reasons". Lived on for many more years in luxury on a par with kings :rolleyes:

    You guys are probably all to young to know or remember the case of Ernest Saunders of "Guinness Four" fame. He ended up only serving 9 months of his 5-year sentence when he was released from prison in 1991 on compassionate grounds after claiming that he was suffering from incurable pre-senile dementia associated with Alzheimer's Disease. Upon release he made a remarkably swift "recovery" and is still alive.


  • #29
    a-k-47
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,298 ✭✭✭a-k-47


    BigMentalDisease wrote: »
    I hope Biggs covets an orange, reaches for the fruit bowl, but instead falls and breaks both hips. The public deserves this at least.

    But seriously, the geezer never showed a shred of remorse.

    Why would he though, I suppose. He's had a great life thanks to his notoriety.

    why would the public deserve anything from biggs. His an old man ffs. Get over it.


  • #30
    PrivateEye
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    I hate when they present this guy as some sort of Robin Hood 'Wurrrrkin' Class Hero' in the U.K.

    The locomotive's second man 26 year old David Whitby jumped down from the cab to call the signalman from a trackside telephone, only to find the cables had been cut. Upon returning to the train, he was thrown down the embankment of the railway track. One of the gang members (who did not carry guns) then boarded the train cab and hit 57 year old Mills on the head with an iron bar, causing a black eye and facial bruising. The five postal workers in the HVP carriage were then tied up and pushed into a corner.


    To say he's the opposite of the bankers and politicians is also laughable. Suppose being methaphorically battered by greedy people is better than being hit by one of them in the head with an iron bar:rolleyes:


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  • #31
    a-k-47
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    PrivateEye wrote: »
    I hate when they present this guy as some sort of Robin Hood 'Wurrrrkin' Class Hero' in the U.K.



    To say he's the opposite of the bankers and politicians is also laughable. Suppose being methaphorically battered by greedy people is better than being hit by one of them in the head with an iron bar:rolleyes:

    It was major heist, and thats all that happened to any of the rail workers. Worse stuff will happen in your local pub on a sat night. Not like the man was like the kray brothers.


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