The Barefoot Bandit: A Hero?

[Raux]

here's the thing about hero's

name a few that aren't sports or movie stars to today's world? hard isn't it!

[avizpls]

my dad

[redxblack]

"All my heroes had FBI files"

[ZLTFUL]

The reason why folks like James, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, etc were idolized is it has been documented that while they were criminals, they stuck it to the man. I know this has been said earlier in the thread and I am reiterating it.

A good example is of a bank robbery Dillinger did once where he took money a working man had just given to the teller at the bank and handed it back to him saying, "I am here for the bank's money. Not yours." I mean put yourself on the verge of losing everything (the Great Depression) and have that magnified as you watch your bank being robbed but then have that bank robber hand you your money back. Wow. The government never did that for me? This Dillinger guy must be alright.

Not idyllic to say the least but when there are no true heroes to be had among those who should be our heroes, human nature forces us to look for heroes in unlikely places.

[redxblack]

Plus, they were robbing the same banks foreclosing on their farms. Pretty Boy Floyd would leave $100 bills under the breakfast plate of farmers that put him up for the night. There was a romance to the golden age of bank robberies.

Jesse James folk status is strange. It's weird that a member of Quantrill's Raiders became super popular around the time of the Civil Rights movement. Correlation isn't causation, but it is an interesting overlap.

[cyrus buelton]

I understand the infatuation with Jesse James and old mob criminals.

Hell, I read all non-fiction books of this sort.

Loved the book Killing Pablo.

Talk about a criminal that won over his people to the point where he was untouchable. My god, the guy had a 737 shot out of the sky, not to mention how many presidential candidates he had assassinated or local police chiefs or entire police forces.

Escobar won over his people by giving them money, food, schools, soccer fields, etc the government couldn't provide.


but






this 19yr old douchebag breaks out of a half way house.....robs a bunch of places, uses chalk to draw his feet in a grocery store, steal airplanes, and then get in to a chase in the Bahama's?

I read an article last night that his Mom also retained a huge entertainment attorney in Seattle (represented Courtney Love after her husband died) to help a potential book about the kid...........

make the beast with two backsing seriously?

[Grampa]

The Bieber Bandit


The only true Bandit

[Triple J]

They interviewed his mom on the local news.

She blames his problems/criminal activities on the school system...said they didn't challenge him enough. When asked directly if she blamed her parenting at all, she said "no, not at all".

No wonder he is the way he is. 

[cyrus buelton]

She blames his problems/criminal activities on the school system...said they didn't challenge him enough. When asked directly if she blamed her parenting at all, she said "no, not at all".

No wonder he is the way he is. 

Shit Jeremy, who else you going to blame?

Certainly parenting never lead to his shoplifting activities when he was 12................

[the_Journeyman]

Seems many blame the school system for problems related to parenting...

JM

[Triple J]

Shit Jeremy, who else you going to blame?

Certainly parenting never lead to his shoplifting activities when he was 12................

No doubt

...I did think it was great the reporter had the balls to ask her that though! 

[muskrat]

As opposed to the other current heroes, like sports stars and celebrities?

here here 

[Grampa]

I blame Woodrow Wilson

[Veloce-Fino]

I didn't read any of these posts aside from the first..

I am a fan of the barefoot bandit on facebook..

I think it's not the crime that excites me/others but the freedom this kid had. No rules, no responsibility. Free to roam and do whatever the hell he wants. I wish I had that freedom..

[muskrat]

don't forget Charlton Heston, he didn't have it inscribed on the tablets he brought down.