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Ronnie Biggs has died.

  • 18-12-2013 10:05AM
    #1
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭


    Reports of Ronnie Biggs are coming in this morning.

    Obviously a criminal who staged one of the greatest train robberies in England at the time.

    Nevertheless he was a very colourful character. I read his autobiography once in a day, I found it so interesting and hard to put down.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/great-train-robber-ronnie-biggs-dies-aged-84-1.1631654

    Villain or loveable rogue?

    Ronnie Biggs villain or loveable rogue? 70 votes

    Low life thieving villain
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  • #2
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Good ol' Ron. Gave the cops a run for their money! Where is Raimundo?


  • #3
    JohnnyChimpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭JohnnyChimpo


    Never got the fascination, really


  • #4
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Repeated criminal scumbag who was part of a gang of scum that beat the train driver with an iron bar.

    Somehow became a celebrity with the help of tabloid rags.


  • #5
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    osarusan wrote: »
    Repeated criminal scumbag who was part of a gang of scum that beat the train driver with an iron bar.

    Somehow became a celebrity with the help of tabloid rags.

    And your thoughts on Robin Hood?


  • #6
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Reports of Ronnie Biggs are coming in this morning.

    Obviously a criminal who staged one of the greatest train robberies in England at the time.
    Biggs had a very minor part in the robbery. His job was to find a train driver to take part, but the lad he found couldn't even drive the train. After that, he just helped to load the bags.


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  • #7
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Biggs had a very minor part in the robbery. His job was to find a train driver to take part, but the lad he found couldn't even drive the train. After that, he just helped to load the bags.

    Obviously I didn't mean he staged it.


  • #8
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    He was a candle in the wind...


  • #9
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Biggs had a very minor part in the robbery. His job was to find a train driver to take part, but the lad he found couldn't even drive the train. After that, he just helped to load the bags.
    Doesn't change any of what I said though.


  • #10
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 12,673 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    deathlist.com rejoices.


  • #11
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I blame Charles Dickens for it myself. London scumbags are often portrayed as loveable rogues in the media, just look at the Krays.

    'Yeah they'd blow your baby's head off for sneezing but they was a good sort'.

    Anyway, he's dead.


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  • #12
    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    And your thoughts on Robin Hood?

    Lovely tights and a very fetching cap.


  • #13
    Slattsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,775 ✭✭✭✭Slattsy


    I loved the 2 Ronnies as a kid.

    The Christmas special will be extra poignant this year.


  • #14
    Ihatecuddles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Slattsy wrote: »
    I loved the 2 Ronnies as a kid.

    The Christmas special will be extra poignant this year.

    Ronnie Smalls must be devastated!


  • #15
    K.Flyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,560 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    osarusan wrote: »

    Somehow became a celebrity with the help of tabloid rags.

    And later with a little help from Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols.


  • #16
    Uriel.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,059 ✭✭✭Uriel.


    I fail to see what made him a lovable rogue to be honest.

    Wasn't that film "Buster" with Phil Collins loosely based on the gang?


  • #17
    preston johnny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭preston johnny


    mauzo! wrote: »
    Ronnie Smalls must be devastated!

    And Big Vern


  • #18
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    They made the mistake of robbing from the State


  • #19
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,610 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Seems he's not worthy of an RIP or condolences to the family.Good Christian values in action.


  • #20
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    The brits have a fascination with criminals, always have.
    Same with the General over here.


  • #21
    martingriff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,834 ✭✭✭✭martingriff


    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    And your thoughts on Robin Hood?

    Where is the connection.


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  • #22
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    martingriff wrote: »
    Where is the connection.

    Third cousins, twice removed.


  • #23
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,363 ✭✭✭✭cantdecide


    So far, this thread is like AH in concentrated form.


  • #24
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Meh, they robbed a shitload of money on it's way to be incinerated anyway. It would have been the perfect heist, had one of them not attacked the innocent driver.
    Had that not happened, the robbery would have gone down in history as a great folk tale, like a modern day Dick Turpin or Robin Hood.


  • #25
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    I don't think he would have been half as famous without the kinda cool gangster name.

    Would he be as well known if he'd been called Sebastian Montgomery?
    I think not.


  • #26
    Grayditch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,347 ✭✭✭✭Grayditch


    kneemos wrote: »
    Seems he's not worthy of an RIP or condolences to the family.Good Christian values in action.

    Hahaha. Christan values.


  • #27
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Frank Black wrote: »
    I don't think he would have been half as famous without the kinda cool gangster name.

    Would he be as well known if he'd been called Sebastian Montgomery?
    I think not.

    Monty? Classic British gangster name!!


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That train driver son thinks that beating somebody up can give you CLL?


  • #29
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,598 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Uriel. wrote: »
    Wasn't that film "Buster" with Phil Collins loosely based on the gang?

    Did you know that Phil Collins doesn't enjoy a dairy milk?


  • #30
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D19eYbbFCvQ

    RIP :P.


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  • #31
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,948 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Aidric wrote: »
    Did you know that Phil Collins doesn't enjoy a dairy milk?

    Another interesting fact is that Patrick Bateman is a big fan.


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