When you were a kid, did you ever think it would be cool to be a criminal?

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Posted: 2/15/2006 3:43:25 PM EDT

I don't mean knocking over gas'n'gos, cooking up the best meth on your block or being a Wall St. investment banker. Something that required some finnesse and real skill like a safe cracker, art forger, cat burgler, etc.

Posted: 2/15/2006 3:45:08 PM EDT

[#1]

Still do.

Posted: 2/15/2006 3:51:59 PM EDT

[#2]

hell yes!!!

Posted: 2/15/2006 3:52:26 PM EDT

[#3]

I had all the palladin/delta press books that I ordered out of the back of the National Enquirer (Al Gore hadn't even thought of inventing the Internet yet) when I was about 10-12 years old:

Lockpicking, Counterfeit ID made easy, Methods of Disguise, etc. I saved up my pennies and bought those and a few others without my mom or dad knowing about it and read them cover to cover. I think my dream was to be more like a James Bond secret agent type but that involves many of the same skills that master criminals have

Posted: 2/15/2006 3:52:51 PM EDT

[#4]

Heavens no! My brothers, my sister and I were raised to be responsible adults. The idea of doing anything other than working for a honest living did not cross our minds.

Posted: 2/15/2006 3:53:31 PM EDT

[#5]

Hacker.

Posted: 2/15/2006 3:55:29 PM EDT

[#6]

I thought it would be cool to be a smuggler until I was about 13. I thought they were all like Glenn Frye on Miami Vice- You know, hang out, play guitar, fly airplanes and have adventures. I never thought they did anything illegal.

Posted: 2/15/2006 3:56:09 PM EDT

[#7]

No never did.

Posted: 2/15/2006 3:57:19 PM EDT

[#8]

I loved reading about , Capone, Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:04:36 PM EDT

[#9]

I read 'The Stainless Steel Rat' by Harry Harrison in eights grade, and thought about being an interstellar bank robber for a while.

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:06:21 PM EDT

[#10]

NO

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:06:36 PM EDT

[#11]

I used to think it would be cool to be kidnapped... I think it was an early fetish of being tied up coming to life.... dirty

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:07:50 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
I used to think it would be cool to be kidnapped... I think it was an early fetish of being tied up coming to life.... dirty

Oh really now?

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:08:20 PM EDT

[#13]

When I was officially a kid, "The Untouchables" was in its first run on television. So, everyone wanted to be Al Capone or Frank Nitti, etc. Of course, my driver's license says I'm n longer a kid, but it still am. The trouble is, it lacks panache: you can steal more with a pen or a computer then you ever could with a "Chicago piano."

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:09:17 PM EDT

[#14]

Any kid who watched westerns wanted to be an outlaw, me included.

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:11:11 PM EDT

[#15]

Sort of.
My grand dad used to have a subscription to Soldier of Fortune back in the day.
I thought it would be cool to be a South African Merc fighting the commies in places nobody heard of.
That's about as close as I ever came to wanting to be an outlaw.

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:27:39 PM EDT

[#16]

Never...

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:41:54 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
I used to think it would be cool to be kidnapped... I think it was an early fetish of being tied up coming to life.... dirty

must....not....post.....

Posted: 2/15/2006 4:44:37 PM EDT

[#18]

No.

Posted: 2/15/2006 5:05:17 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Quoted:
I used to think it would be cool to be kidnapped... I think it was an early fetish of being tied up coming to life.... dirty

must....not....post.....

Do it, baby, I REEEEALLY want you to.... oh yeah... right like that,

don't stop,

don't stop.

OH GOD YES,

JUST DO IT!

Posted: 2/15/2006 5:11:15 PM EDT

[#20]

Nope.

Posted: 2/15/2006 5:12:42 PM EDT

[#21]

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster...

Posted: 2/15/2006 5:28:21 PM EDT

[#22]

I still do, and it's called a healthy imagination.

Posted: 2/16/2006 8:21:31 AM EDT

[#23]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
I used to think it would be cool to be kidnapped... I think it was an early fetish of being tied up coming to life.... dirty

must....not....post.....

Do it, baby, I REEEEALLY want you to.... oh yeah... right like that,

don't stop,

don't stop.

OH GOD YES,

JUST DO IT!

Well, OK, but only because you asked nicely.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:19:00 PM EDT

[#24]

I always thought it would be cool to be a hitman.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:22:07 PM EDT

[#25]

I'm 48 years old. Anybody who's 48 and isn't an outlaw is doing something wrong.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:22:21 PM EDT

[#26]

If I choose to carry I'm a criminal. does that count?

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:26:45 PM EDT

[#27]

I always wanted to be a pirate.

We had this guy that would hook up in our harbor in Beaufort, NC where I grew up.

He billed himself as a pirate, and, all us kids bought it hook line, sinker.

Thinking back, he was just another boat kook........But it was such a bad ass fantasy.

Guess that's as close as I came.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:29:01 PM EDT

[#28]

I think it is cooler to catch criminals.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:29:29 PM EDT

[#29]

Not me...I was thinking about how cool it would be to off criminals (as a cop).

I even had a little pair of JBs, six shooters (easily convertible when I wanted to be a cowboy and kill indians) and MG. The family dog would sometimes have to second for the bad guy when my bother/sister werent into being shot. I think I missed my calling as an ATF agent.

Then again some would say that the same as being a criminal.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:29:55 PM EDT

[#30]

Hell, I'm 47 with a clean record and an upstanding member of the community, so to speak, and I would like to give it a shot. Knocking over a bank, armored car. And no small shit either. Just the big bucks. I think "Heat" did it too me. What a f'ing rush.

Beyond that I have wanted to revolt against my gov't for damn near as long as I can remember. As long as those undeserving get power and abuse it I will want to crush them if I can.

Yup, drjarhead, WMD.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:35:45 PM EDT

[#31]

I always wanted to sell hookers and Blow to people that had money they didn't know what to spend it on.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:41:34 PM EDT

[#32]

yep,till i got busted at the age of 9 for shop lifting a lighter.
had to go and see a judge,that was the end of my stealing.

scared the shit out of me.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:41:57 PM EDT

[#33]

I always thought it would be cool to be Harry Callahan.

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:48:04 PM EDT

[#34]

No. I wanted to be a Merc' and shoot people like that for high pay and poon! Where did I go wrong...?

Posted: 2/16/2006 3:56:25 PM EDT

[#35]

I still do, every time I see the movie HEAT........

Posted: 2/16/2006 4:13:17 PM EDT

[#36]

No, risk not equal to reward.

Posted: 2/16/2006 4:27:38 PM EDT

[#37]

I don't know if it would be worth it or not. Maybe it's not as glamorous as people think.

Posted: 2/16/2006 4:54:32 PM EDT

[#38]

I thought it would be cool to be a vigilante..

Posted: 2/16/2006 8:34:10 PM EDT

[#39]

When I was little I wanted to be a pirate. As I grew older I wanted to be Indiana Jones.

Posted: 2/16/2006 9:04:02 PM EDT

[#40]

This thread reminds me of the episode of Gilligan's Island with Don Rickles as the Kidnapper. Ginger plays psychotherapist with him:

Ginger: Tell me about your childhood.
Norbert Wiley (Rickles): I grew up in a bad neighborhood.
Ginger: Did you play games?
Norbert: Yea,,Cops N Robbers,,,I was always the Cop, never the good guy.
Ginger: The Cop is the good guy!
Norbert: Not in my neighborhood.

Posted: 2/16/2006 9:09:36 PM EDT

[#41]

Hell yeah. As a kid I had three perspective jobs that I wanted as an adult:
1. Police Officer
2. Outlaw Biker
3. Pirate

I have almost achieved #1, #3 seems a little outdated. I wouldnt be tacking the missenmast anymore. So, if I dont get hired on as a LEO at least I can learn how to ride a Hog

-BJohnson