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Ronnie Biggs Dead

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525663/BREAKING-NEWS-Great-Train-Robber-Ronnie-Biggs-dies-aged-84-years-ill-health.html

I'm only posting this because I'm interested in what people on TSR think about it. Do you think a criminal like this should be remembered and praised by so many people? Why do so many people give the man respect when he was just a thief?

Reply 1

thunder_chunky

Good riddance. He was a criminal, a thug, and a coward. He should have gone to jail and stayed in jail until he died.

Reply 2

jankers

he's still had the last laugh. i remember his son blubbin' about how he was gonna die unless he was let out of nick. how long did he live on in a home provided for him and health care for which he never paid a penny for? this country wants to find it's back bone again.

Reply 3

CEKTOP

He was a funny bloke.

Reply 4

Olie

Original post by CEKTOP

He was a funny bloke.

I'm sure plenty of criminals are 'funny blokes', but does that mean we should idolise them?

Its an amazing coincidence that the BBC were showing the drama series on the Great Train Robbery tonight as well, almost too coincidental, I can already see the conspiracy theorists' minds buzzing :rolleyes:

(edited 10 years ago)

Reply 5

CEKTOP

Original post by Olie

I'm sure plenty of criminals are 'funny blokes', but does that mean we should idolise them?

I don't think that I'm idealising anyone.

Reply 6

username402722

Remembered yes, given the scale of the crime he was a part of, and because he was probably allowed out as a compassionate gesture only because the man convicted of the Pan Am Lockerbie bomb was being released. Not glorified.

I will also remember him as he lived not far from me for the last four years of his life, and about 18 months ago saw him on a sunny day having a trip out of his home (with a carer, and in a wheelchair).