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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.
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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I read 'The Stainless Steel Rat' by Harry Harrison in eights grade, and thought about being an interstellar bank robber for a while.
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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
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Oh really now? |
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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."
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Any kid who watched westerns wanted to be an outlaw, me included.
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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. |
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must....not....post..... |
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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! |
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As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster...
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Well, OK, but only because you asked nicely. |
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I'm 48 years old. Anybody who's 48 and isn't an outlaw is doing something wrong.
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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I always wanted to sell hookers and Blow to people that had money they didn't know what to spend it on.
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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. |
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No. I wanted to be a Merc' and shoot people like that for high pay and poon! Where did I go wrong...?
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I don't know if it would be worth it or not. Maybe it's not as glamorous as people think.
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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. |
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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 |
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