1963 Great train robbery, Hero's or Villian's ?

[Leekbrookgull]

Apart from Jack Mills. Have to some sort 'Time' for them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syaF8-46viA

 

[Titus]

Or Heroes or Villains.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Definitely 'Villains' - Phil Collins wouldn't have got time on the big screen but for them.

Seriously though:

a) it wasn't their money they nicked
b) didn't the train driver get coshed?
c) an innocent man got jailed and the robbers could have done something - but didn't
d) they were pretty incompetent as most got caught

Ok it was a daring robbery that made huge headlines for being the biggest at that time. In return the establishment made examples of them by dishing out some 30 year sentences. The media turned Ronnie Biggs and Buster Edwards into loveable rogues / celebrities but they were just criminals.

 

[Superphil]

Wretched thieving violent criminals. Let me think. Scum.

 

[Nibble]

Scum. Famously "regular guys, family men". No, they love their families but would mow down any of yours to get money. Incompotent and violent. Grim.

 

[Stat Brother]

Blimey too much fence sitting already, on this thread, say what you mean chaps.









(BTW you are all right, scum in the first degree)

 

[Hamilton]

Er, villains. Never found anything remotely appealing about them.

 

[Ernest]

Ask the train driver they coshed

 

[Solid at the back]

I thought they were cool

 

[blue2]

Wretched thieving violent criminals. Let me think. Scum.

This is the correct answer

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Ask the train driver they coshed

Especially as his life was shortened due to his injuries.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Wretched thieving violent criminals. Let me think. Scum.

Scum too good a description for the b@stards. may they fry in hell.

TNBA


TTF

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Sorry guy's surely if they had not hit Jack Mills. Location and timming was spot-on ?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Thieves and robbers are not heroes.

 

[Fef]

Thieves and robbers are not heroes.

Agree.

 

[The Kid Frankie]

Biggsy is a legend. Not condoning the robbery, but the 30 years he was given for it was beyond disgusting. To think he went on the run for so long, then sat in Rio sticking two fingers up at the establishment when it was revealed where he was and could legitimately stay there, then handed himself in when he saw fit, then got released before he could kick the bucket.

The man was never a gangster, he was never suspected of being responsible for the assault on the driver, but he was a top bloke for the way he gave the plod in this country the run around.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Sorry guy's surely if they had not hit Jack Mills. Location and timming was spot-on ?

Robbers would have been heroes had they not attacked anyone?

 

[Beach Hut]

Ask the train driver they coshed

Precisely nothing like glamourising crimes

 

[terryberry1]

Rapscallions

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Nasty bits of shit,
Biggs in particular a real lowlife shithouse,didn't even attend his sons funeral,I hope the bastard dies screaming.