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TIL my great-grandfather grew up with Clyde Barrow... my family is starting to make more sense.
Dec 20, 2012 6:48 AM
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SoundFuture
He referred to him as the "meanest son-of-a-bitch" he'd ever met, and that as kids he'd nearly beaten him to death with a coach-whip.
Gotooh
Now that's true friendship.
Sesquipedaisy
My great-grandpa was friends with Mimi Capone, Al Capone's brother, and Jackie Gleason. My family still doesn't make very much sense.
SoundFuture
Also, I think that's awesome....Humanah-humanah
SoundFuture
Kind of like when I found out my great-uncle was a Texas Ranger after he fled murder charges in Louisiana and Oklahoma?
Sesquipedaisy
Exactly. I'm not sure what my great-grandpa got up to in Chicago in the 20s, but I know that he was shot and survived, bullet still in.
IlessthanthreeDisney
They werent bad people, times were just so hard for everybody! you had to get money to eat any way you knew how.
dogfrost9
Not bad? They committed at least 13 murders, several robberies and burglaries and assorted kidnappings, and abductions.
SoundFuture
Apparently he was just mean as a kid, but didn't become truly bad until prison. TX prisons in the early 1900's *shudder*
IlessthanthreeDisney
Yikes. Desperation changes people. It can alter your whole perception of life.
SoundFuture
To quote a conspiracy theorist economist "When people lose everything, they lose it."