Your Favourite Outlaw?

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 27-07-2014 2:00pm

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

Fat Christy · 27-07-2014 2:12pm

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 · 27-07-2014 2:19pm

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 · 27-07-2014 2:21pm

Bret Maverick

House of Blaze · 27-07-2014 2:22pm

I hear that renegade!

SEPT 23 1989 · 27-07-2014 2:24pm

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 · 27-07-2014 2:24pm

Trent

Fat Christy · 27-07-2014 2:28pm

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 · 27-07-2014 2:28pm

The Duke brothers.

Making their way the only way the know how.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller · 27-07-2014 2:53pm

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 · 27-07-2014 4:23pm

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 · 27-07-2014 5:45pm

The Monk

Davarus Walrus · 27-07-2014 5:49pm

Nathan

Arthur Beesley · 27-07-2014 5:53pm

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 · 27-07-2014 5:56pm

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

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

Arthur Beesley · 27-07-2014 5:58pm

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 · 27-07-2014 5:59pm

beano345 wrote: »

Frank morris,escapee from alcatraz

But did he make it to shore alive?

Arthur Beesley · 27-07-2014 6:02pm

Surprised no one has mentioned Assange or Snowden.

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

johnayo · 27-07-2014 6:05pm

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 · 27-07-2014 6:06pm

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

efb · 27-07-2014 6:10pm

Aung San Suu Kyi

Ruu · 27-07-2014 6:18pm

An Internet outlaw if you will, Kim Dotcom!

Titzon Toast · 27-07-2014 6:30pm

Tommy Vercetti.

failinis · 27-07-2014 6:47pm

Mata Hari (Stage name)
Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" Zelle MacLeod (Real name)

Frisian exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.
She was spy on both sides for each other and stitching them up.
Not bad looking either.

beano345 · 27-07-2014 6:55pm

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

But did he make it to shore alive?

Who knows,the mythbusters episode where they re-enacted the escape showed it could easily be done.Morris's escape partners families are certain they are alive somewhere one even claimed to have gotten a Christmas card one year from them.rumour was flying about that on the 50th anniversary of their escape they would return to Alcatraz for a visit.must have worried the local sheriffs department as they sent officers over there that day to see if they could spot them.

Morris was very intelligent,so I'd say if they made it they went to ground very quickly.think it was one of the biggest manhunts the states has ever seen.