What Chicago citizen once declared:
"Public service is my motto"?
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08-26-03, 10:46 PM
Tractor
That sounds like something that idiot Capone would say!

08-26-03, 10:54 PM
Ruthann
Correct, Al Capone.

08-27-03, 04:33 AM
FredPuli
Nothing wrong with that. He gave the consumer what they wanted; booze, women,loans......! He also paid for soup kitchens, didn't he ? He was just misunderstood.

08-30-03, 11:42 AM
Tractor
Yes, you're right. He was just a poor misunderstood soul. Take myself and my own misunderstandings about this kind hearted individual...I've never been able to quite understand what he was on about with the St. Valentine's Day massacre.

08-30-03, 02:42 PM
FredPuli
Tractor, it was the Chicago equivalent of what the French police, at least in the South ( Marseilles through to Nice)still very sweetly call, with a gallic shrug, ' a settling of accounts' ! It's a regular event there, usually as drive- by killings, sometimes in car parks ( last week's was only two gunned down in an an apartment block car-park near Nice) We expect them to only make half-hearted investigations once they've decided that it's really only a matter of gangland 'book-keeping' Big Grin I'm sure they regard it as a labour saving device for them.

So, you see, Mr Capone was just doing everyone a favour. Smile He was misunderstood; he only really hurt criminals. Or as a guide book to London's Soho in the 1950s said to tourists " Don't worry about the gangs; they are not going to shoot the customers, only each other !" Big Grin

08-31-03, 04:43 AM
Tractor
Awww, Freddy

I do so love your tongue in cheek style. You're so damned good at it!

In regards to the French example you pointed out I should say that I am, unfortunately, painfully aware of the goings on in France these days. With myself though you have encountered one whom should probably not make any comments regarding the French, especially the Gendarmes and their lax attitude towards any REAL police work. I'm afraid that my thoughts and opinions of the dear French as a whole would probably violate this site's policy on vulgarity.

With regards to the good Mr. Capone, I'll admit that I still have just a teeny little problem with a couple of the victims killed in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre being classified as "deserving". One was the neighboring optometrist who had stopped in to ask when his bill would be paid and another was a mechanic called in to repair the transmission in one of Moran's cars. As such it would appear to one as simple as I that at least 2 of the men murdered in the Moran garage and liquor warehouse at 2122 N. Clark in Chicago on that cold snowy morning of February 14, 1929 were not overly "deserving" of the fate which befell them.

I could probably make additional comment on the 102 (at least) other "deserving" individuals who were killed as bystanders by Capone's trigger happy goons in his various gang wars, but I'll save that for another day.

08-31-03, 11:35 AM
FredPuli
Well yes, so you get innocent victims ; but remember one thing. Anyone who can let Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis escape the massacre so they join an all-girl band with Marilyn Monroe can't have been all bad! He must have appreciated that some like it hot Smile

Too bad about his tax returns though. I can see how a second-hand furniture dealer can be too busy to get around to putting in the right ( or any) figures to the Revenue.These things can slip your mind. You get a rush order for bar-stools for some new basement or barber's chairs where they've suffered accidental bullet holes ( or severe woodworm; whatever you call it); heck, you can be busier than a 1929 debt collector ..... Smile

P.S. The French aren't all bad either; they've got really upset because one victim (see above) was simply a girlfriend of the hoodlum shot. They regard this as very unprofessional and unsporting; she could never have recognised the killers and wouldn't squeal even if she had ! The gunmen are sure to be relegated to lesser duties from now on ( arson of over- insured buildings, loan-sharking or something).

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09-01-03, 11:28 AM
Tractor
Yeah, you're right...poor old Al, he was but a victim of circumstance. And who can figure out those complicated IRS forms anyway?

As for the French...I was actually kinda serious about it being best that I didn't comment on them.

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