Should we be celebrating or publicising Chopper Reads death
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colzilla
I mostly agree 2.
He did put Alan Jones in his place once on national T.V... So he's mostly bad but not all.
He did put Alan Jones in his place once on national T.V... So he's mostly bad but not all.
Happy2
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If he had a good shot at Jones Then as you say he couldn't be all bad after all
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colzilla
Yeah! Mr2 it was on the KAK show and Chopper mentioned Al's episode in a London lavatory... Al went white as a sheet.
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He did his time and got rid of a few ppl the cops wanted to but couldn't. Why treat him any different from any one else?
I liked his outspokenness and say it as it is attitude
Ned Kelly became a hero and he never did his time at least Uncle Chop Chop did
May he meet up with Neville Bartos again
RIP Chopper
I liked his outspokenness and say it as it is attitude
Ned Kelly became a hero and he never did his time at least Uncle Chop Chop did
May he meet up with Neville Bartos again
RIP Chopper
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suzythefloozy
First of all, "we're" not publicizing it but the media certainly are. I like how people say Ned Kelly was a hero when research has shown he was far from it - just an appalling thug of his time who glorified himself and the ignoran Australian public have swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Nobody "does their time" in prison, society is still suffering as victims of the work of most prisoners whether it be Alan Bond to the shoplifting thief to the AIDS-infected prostitute who has unprotected sex.
Alan Jones is a fool - that tv exchange was just a case of two fools trying to fool each other.
Read confessed to torturing people and killing them and what about the ones he didn't confess to? This village idiot often signed his works: "Never plead guilty". Did he ever share his royalties with any victims? Go to hell and glorify yourself there and give yourself the chop while you're at it Chop.
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suzythefloozy
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Ahoy;- Chopper will be missed RIP
The ex-crime, author and Comedian
A tough guy and a funny guy
He served his time;- RIP
The ex-crime, author and Comedian
A tough guy and a funny guy
He served his time;- RIP
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colzilla
Yes indeed STF Chopper didn't get arrested for doing naughty things in a public lavatory in London.
AJ and his high moral ground = BS
AJ and his high moral ground = BS
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wr3xr
Good riddance to a piece of shit.
He murdered and tourtured people but australians still think hes a good bloke lol
He murdered and tourtured people but australians still think hes a good bloke lol
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So's the fireman who puts his life at risk regularly
And remaining generally unsung
Happy2
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Seems a bit unfair, It costs a lot of money and just as much dedication to maintain
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RIP;--Chopper
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/m...liver-cancer-in-melbourne-20131009-2v8b9.html
Notorious Melbourne crime figure turned author Mark Brandon Read has died after a long battle with liver cancer. He was 58. Beneath his incredible machismo was a very gentle, straight-shooting giant of an Australian man. Read died at the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Wednesday afternoon "after a long and courageous battle with liver cancer", his manager Andrew Parisi said.
"Despite his failing health, he delighted the audience with his skills as a raconteur and storyteller," Mr Parisi said. "This is how he would wish to be remembered, as someone who spun a great yarn and made many people laugh." Read's death was a tragic loss for his wife Margaret and his sons Roy and Charlie."For more than 15 years, Mark has lived a quiet life with Margaret in Collingwood. He worked as a writer, painter and public speaker, paid his taxes and took care of his family.
"At the time of his death, we ask that people reflect on how Mark was able to overcome his past and, after more than 23 years in prison, find a way to re-enter 'normal' society.
"It is as a husband, father and friend that Mark will be missed most deeply."
Read spent much of his adult life in prison for committing multiple violent crimes, and gained infamy in his younger days for sometimes using a blowtorch or bolt cutters to remove the toes of his targets. He also had a fellow Pentridge Prison inmate slice off both of his ears while in jail. Read later used his career in crime as the basis for a series of best-selling true crime books, although exactly how ''true'' many of the stories are has been questioned. "Look, honestly, I haven't killed that many people," Read said in an interview with The New York Times earlier this year, "probably about four or seven, depending on how you look at it.'' Read was diagnosed with liver cancer in April last year and he also had cirrhosis. He said his illness started after contracting hepatitis C while in prison. Wilhelmina McGee won't quickly forget the first bloke to walk into the Leinster Arms Hotel when she and her husband bought it in 2001. "Chopper" would become a good mate and regular source of entertainment. "He lived his life pretty hard," she said. Even in the past four years, when his drink of choice was a “raspberry lemonade", Chopper could hold the room with his humour. "The 12 years I've known Mark I've never seen a bad side, an angry side, I don't know what he did in his previous life, but he was just a normal family man," she said. "He told so many stories over the years I don't even know where to start.'' To his former publicist and friend Di Rolle, Read was simply "a unique Australian character". "Beneath his incredible machismo was a very gentle, straight-shooting giant of an Australian man,'' she said.
"There's only ever going to be one Chopper Read."
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/m...liver-cancer-in-melbourne-20131009-2v8b9.html
Notorious Melbourne crime figure turned author Mark Brandon Read has died after a long battle with liver cancer. He was 58. Beneath his incredible machismo was a very gentle, straight-shooting giant of an Australian man. Read died at the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Wednesday afternoon "after a long and courageous battle with liver cancer", his manager Andrew Parisi said.
"Despite his failing health, he delighted the audience with his skills as a raconteur and storyteller," Mr Parisi said. "This is how he would wish to be remembered, as someone who spun a great yarn and made many people laugh." Read's death was a tragic loss for his wife Margaret and his sons Roy and Charlie."For more than 15 years, Mark has lived a quiet life with Margaret in Collingwood. He worked as a writer, painter and public speaker, paid his taxes and took care of his family.
"At the time of his death, we ask that people reflect on how Mark was able to overcome his past and, after more than 23 years in prison, find a way to re-enter 'normal' society.
"It is as a husband, father and friend that Mark will be missed most deeply."
Read spent much of his adult life in prison for committing multiple violent crimes, and gained infamy in his younger days for sometimes using a blowtorch or bolt cutters to remove the toes of his targets. He also had a fellow Pentridge Prison inmate slice off both of his ears while in jail. Read later used his career in crime as the basis for a series of best-selling true crime books, although exactly how ''true'' many of the stories are has been questioned. "Look, honestly, I haven't killed that many people," Read said in an interview with The New York Times earlier this year, "probably about four or seven, depending on how you look at it.'' Read was diagnosed with liver cancer in April last year and he also had cirrhosis. He said his illness started after contracting hepatitis C while in prison. Wilhelmina McGee won't quickly forget the first bloke to walk into the Leinster Arms Hotel when she and her husband bought it in 2001. "Chopper" would become a good mate and regular source of entertainment. "He lived his life pretty hard," she said. Even in the past four years, when his drink of choice was a “raspberry lemonade", Chopper could hold the room with his humour. "The 12 years I've known Mark I've never seen a bad side, an angry side, I don't know what he did in his previous life, but he was just a normal family man," she said. "He told so many stories over the years I don't even know where to start.'' To his former publicist and friend Di Rolle, Read was simply "a unique Australian character". "Beneath his incredible machismo was a very gentle, straight-shooting giant of an Australian man,'' she said.
"There's only ever going to be one Chopper Read."
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wr3xr
LOL.. lets pretend he was a rapist and raped and tourted 4-7 women.
I bet none of you would sleep with him or let your daughters, sisters or mum sleep with him?
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RIP;--Chopper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopper_Read#Criminal_activity
Chopper Read;
Born 17 November 1954 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died 9 October 2013 (aged 58) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Conviction(s) Armed robbery, Assault, Kidnapping
Occupation; Criminal, rapper, author
Spouse;
Mary-Ann Hodge (m. 1995–d. 2001)
Margaret Cassar (m. 2003–w. 2013)
Children; Charlie & Roy Brandon
Bibliography
When he was still young, Read was already an accomplished street fighter and the leader of the Surrey Road gang. He began his criminal career by robbing drug dealers, based in massage parlours in the Prahran area. He later graduated to kidnapping and torturing members of the criminal underworld, often using a blowtorch or bolt cutters to remove the toes of his victims as an incentive for them to produce enough money so that Read would leave them alive.
Read spent only 13 months outside prison between the ages of 20 and 38, having been convicted of crimes including armed robbery, firearm offences, assault, arson, impersonating a police officer and kidnapping.[4] While in Pentridge Prison's H division in the late 1970s, Read launched a prison war. His gang, dubbed "The Overcoat Gang" because they wore long coats all year round to conceal their weapons, were involved in several hundred acts of violence against a larger opposing gang during this period. Around this time, Read had a fellow inmate cut both of his (Read's) ears off in order to be able to leave H division temporarily. While in his early biographies Read claimed this was to avoid an ambush by other inmates, by being transferred to the mental health wing, his later works state that he did so to "win a bet".[citation needed] The nickname "Chopper" was given to him long before this, from a childhood cartoon character.[citation needed]
Read was ambushed and stabbed by members of his own gang in a sneak attack when they felt that his plan to cripple every other inmate in the entire division and win the gang war in one fell swoop was going too far. Another theory is that James "Jimmy" Loughnan, a longtime friend of Read, with Patrick "Blue" Barnes, wished to benefit from a contract put on Read's head by the Painters' and Dockers' Union. Read lost several feet of intestine in the attack.[5] At the time Read was serving a 16 and a half-year sentence after attacking a judge in an effort to get Loughnan released from prison.[6] Loughnan would later die in the Jika Jika fire at Pentridge in 1987.
In 1992, Read was convicted of shooting Sydney Michael Edward Collins in the chest. The incident took place in Read's car, which was in the driveway of Collins' residence at Evandale, Tasmania. The bullet was recovered from the backseat of the vehicle, and Collins named Read as the shooter. Pleading not guilty, Read was found guilty of grievous bodily harm, a downgraded charge from attempted murder, and sentenced as a "dangerous criminal" to indefinite detention. He walked free early in 1998. In 2002, Read was again questioned over the disappearance of Sydney Collins, who is still on the Australian Missing Person list after going missing under suspicious circumstances.
Read claimed to be involved in the killing of 19 people and the attempted murder of 11 others. In an April 2013 interview with the New York Times, Read said “Look, honestly, I haven’t killed that many people, probably about four or seven, depending on how you look at it.”
Read also spoke of his mid-1980s to early 1990s rivalry with Alphonse Gangitano in the TV series Tough Nuts. Read explained that he had a disagreement with Gangitano regarding an elderly neighbourhood hero whom Gangitano admired. It is alleged[by whom?] that Gangitano burst open the toilet cubicle door[where?] with a number of associates and began a serious assault on Read who made his escape but not before spreading his faeces into Gangitano's face.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopper_Read#Criminal_activity
Chopper Read;
Born 17 November 1954 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died 9 October 2013 (aged 58) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Conviction(s) Armed robbery, Assault, Kidnapping
Occupation; Criminal, rapper, author
Spouse;
Mary-Ann Hodge (m. 1995–d. 2001)
Margaret Cassar (m. 2003–w. 2013)
Children; Charlie & Roy Brandon
Bibliography
- Chopper: From the Inside (1991), ISBN 0-646-06543-2
- Chopper 2: Hits and Memories (1992), ISBN 0-646-10987-1
- Chopper 3: How to Shoot Friends & Influence People (1993), ISBN 0-646-15444-3
- Chopper 4: For the Term of His Unnatural Life (1994), ISBN 0-646-21014-9
- Chopper 5: Pulp Faction: Revenge of the Rabbit Kisser and Other Jailhouse Stories (1995), ISBN 0-646-25065-5
- Chopper 6: No Tears for a Tough Guy (1996), ISBN 0-646-29637-X
- Chopper 7: The Singing Defective (1997), ISBN 0-646-33923-0
- Chopper 8: The Sicilian Defence (1998), ISBN 0-9586071-0-9
- Chopper 9: The Final Cut (1999), ISBN 0-9586071-4-1
- Chopper 101⁄2: The Popcorn Gangster (2001), ISBN 0-9579121-0-2
- Hooky the Cripple: The Grim Tale of a Hunchback Who Triumphs (2002), ISBN 1-86403-165-4
- The Adventures of Rumsley Rumsfelt (2003), ISBN 0-9579121-7-X
- Chopper 11: Last Man Standing: From Ex-Con to Icon (2007)
- Mark 'Chopper' Read: One Thing Led To Another (2010), ISBN 978-1-4050-4046-4
- Mark 'Chopper' Read: Road to Nowhere (2011), ISBN 9781742611457
When he was still young, Read was already an accomplished street fighter and the leader of the Surrey Road gang. He began his criminal career by robbing drug dealers, based in massage parlours in the Prahran area. He later graduated to kidnapping and torturing members of the criminal underworld, often using a blowtorch or bolt cutters to remove the toes of his victims as an incentive for them to produce enough money so that Read would leave them alive.
Read spent only 13 months outside prison between the ages of 20 and 38, having been convicted of crimes including armed robbery, firearm offences, assault, arson, impersonating a police officer and kidnapping.[4] While in Pentridge Prison's H division in the late 1970s, Read launched a prison war. His gang, dubbed "The Overcoat Gang" because they wore long coats all year round to conceal their weapons, were involved in several hundred acts of violence against a larger opposing gang during this period. Around this time, Read had a fellow inmate cut both of his (Read's) ears off in order to be able to leave H division temporarily. While in his early biographies Read claimed this was to avoid an ambush by other inmates, by being transferred to the mental health wing, his later works state that he did so to "win a bet".[citation needed] The nickname "Chopper" was given to him long before this, from a childhood cartoon character.[citation needed]
Read was ambushed and stabbed by members of his own gang in a sneak attack when they felt that his plan to cripple every other inmate in the entire division and win the gang war in one fell swoop was going too far. Another theory is that James "Jimmy" Loughnan, a longtime friend of Read, with Patrick "Blue" Barnes, wished to benefit from a contract put on Read's head by the Painters' and Dockers' Union. Read lost several feet of intestine in the attack.[5] At the time Read was serving a 16 and a half-year sentence after attacking a judge in an effort to get Loughnan released from prison.[6] Loughnan would later die in the Jika Jika fire at Pentridge in 1987.
In 1992, Read was convicted of shooting Sydney Michael Edward Collins in the chest. The incident took place in Read's car, which was in the driveway of Collins' residence at Evandale, Tasmania. The bullet was recovered from the backseat of the vehicle, and Collins named Read as the shooter. Pleading not guilty, Read was found guilty of grievous bodily harm, a downgraded charge from attempted murder, and sentenced as a "dangerous criminal" to indefinite detention. He walked free early in 1998. In 2002, Read was again questioned over the disappearance of Sydney Collins, who is still on the Australian Missing Person list after going missing under suspicious circumstances.
Read claimed to be involved in the killing of 19 people and the attempted murder of 11 others. In an April 2013 interview with the New York Times, Read said “Look, honestly, I haven’t killed that many people, probably about four or seven, depending on how you look at it.”
Read also spoke of his mid-1980s to early 1990s rivalry with Alphonse Gangitano in the TV series Tough Nuts. Read explained that he had a disagreement with Gangitano regarding an elderly neighbourhood hero whom Gangitano admired. It is alleged[by whom?] that Gangitano burst open the toilet cubicle door[where?] with a number of associates and began a serious assault on Read who made his escape but not before spreading his faeces into Gangitano's face.
sparky
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lets pretend he was a priest would you let ur son sleep with him ?
he was a murderer not a rapist. He killed underworld thugs not everyday ppl
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