Top Five “Good” Thieves
by Ernie on 24/10/07 at 11:05 am
A long-time E-Verser ties a bandanna over her face and sends in Top Five “Good” Thieves (i.e., thieves who are revered as heroes, or anti-heroes, by lots of people):
5. The guys who pulled off the Great Train Robbery of 1963
4. Bonnie & Clyde
3. Butch & Sundance
2. Jesse James
1. Robin Hood
Bonus: Joey Coyle. Average Joe unemployed Philadelphian who happened to be walking along when an armored truck’s back doors opened and disgorged its contents. He grabbed 1.2 million dollars and ran. Apprehended a short time later and charged with theft, he was ultimately acquitted due to “temporary insanity.” This might be the only case ever in which someone was found not guilty of robbery due to temporary insanity–generally such pleas are reserved for murder trials.
Which leads us to . . . .
Top Five Qualities Anti-Hero Thieves Must Have to be Seen So in the Public Eyes:
1. He must be handsome.
2. He must be seen as nice to women and somehow romantic.
3. He should be perceived as someone who “sticks it to the man.”
4. He must be someone who consciously, chivalrously, attempts to minimize the harm he causes.
5. bravery or cleverness.
Bonus: Dying a tragic death helps but is not essential.
sheila
Oct 28th, 2007
I love this topic! Great list!
I think Sonny from Dog Day Afternoon is definitely a ‘good thief’!! Robbing a bank to fund his lover’s sex-change operation! I saw that movie when I was 11 (the whole sex-change thing went right over my head) – and I just LOVED that character, even though he was a criminal.
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Kaleen Hongola
May 17th, 2010
this is the best because im a decendent of Jesse James which is HELLA awesome!!!!!
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