Have you ever admired any real life killers, criminals or thieves?

MaxSteele · 31-01-2013 12:51PM

Howard Marks. Built his own drug empire and spent seven years in one of the worst prisons in America in terms of gang rape and violence. Was well respected there and even made friends with some of America's most reputed mobsters from the Five families and the westies.

Mark "Chopper" Read. A lone wolf who extorted drug dealers and openly admitted to being involved in murder. He is basically an admired Australian celebrity.

LiamMc · 31-01-2013 01:16PM

They must have been doing something wrong:

Arvid Kubbel : Russian/Soviet Chess Composer, was sent to a gulag in 1930's for the crime of sending a chess problem to foreign newspapers outside of Soviet Union. He died in 1938 in the gulag, may have been executed.

Miguel de Cervantes: Writer of Don Quixote, both part 1 AND part 2.
Many other careers including Tax Collecting (and this guy is Celebrated??),
Probably where he learnt to embezzle from his clients and ended up in prison at the end of the 16th C.
Part one of Don Quixote was published in 1605 and Cervantes writes that his imprisonment influenced his writing.

Bad Santa · 31-01-2013 04:42PM

MaxSteele wrote: »

Mark "Chopper" Read. A lone wolf who extorted drug dealers and openly admitted to being involved in murder. He is basically an admired Australian celebrity.

This classic interview is hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1LVtOpagfg

orestes · 31-01-2013 05:10PM

LiamMc wrote: »

They must have been doing something wrong:

Arvid Kubbel : Russian/Soviet Chess Composer, was sent to a gulag in 1930's for the crime of sending a chess problem to foreign newspapers outside of Soviet Union. He died in 1938 in the gulag, may have been executed.

Miguel de Cervantes: Writer of Don Quixote, both part 1 AND part 2.
Many other careers including Tax Collecting (and this guy is Celebrated??),
Probably where he learnt to embezzle from his clients and ended up in prison at the end of the 16th C.
Part one of Don Quixote was published in 1605 and Cervantes writes that his imprisonment influenced his writing.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was imprisoned for 4 years in a prison camp in Serbia for being a revolutionary. His crime: being a member of a literary group and reading material that the state deemed subversive. Yep, not writing or distributing it, reading it. After he was released he wrote The House of the Dead, very heavily based on his time in the camp.

Lawrence1895 · 31-01-2013 06:02PM

Bonnie and Clyde were sort of cool, when I was a child, I named my budgies after them

Lollipops23 · 31-01-2013 06:28PM

Martin Cahill was a scumbag, no way could I admire him.

I don't admire any conman/psychopaths, but I will admit to a morbid fascination of them- I read a book called Notorious Women a few years back, it had stuff as far back as the middle ages and was incredibly interesting. Got a few funny looks reading it on the bus to work,though.

jimmyRotator · 31-01-2013 07:13PM

Yes. Richard Kuklinski aka the Ice Man. When he starting out as a young teenager he used to find weak homeless people and beat them to death just to hone his skills. Estimated to have murdered close to 100 people throughout his life.

Teyla Emmagan · 31-01-2013 07:23PM

Martin Cahill, my hole.

fasttalkerchat · 31-01-2013 07:28PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

im sure the ex staff of o connors jewellers in harolds cross think Martin Cahill is a hero:rolleyes:. he was low life scum

Was liked to Billy Wright and wanted to import heroin... lowest of the low but his story is an interesting one.

GerB40 · 31-01-2013 07:40PM

tommyombomb wrote: »

Pablo Escobar, just because if your going to do something, be the biggest and best

He caused some amount of pain and misery but the power he had in Columbia was mad.. A scumbag, but a fascinating scumbag all the same.

Have you ever admired any real life killers, criminals or thieves?

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