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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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An entry in the Supplement to the NSW Police Gazette Sydney for Skukerman, (alias Kukarman, alias Cecil Landan) is captioned ‘obtains goods from warehousemen by falsely representing that he is in business’.



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George Whitehall, carpenter, handed himself into Newtown police after hacking to death his common-law wife, Ida Parker on Thursday afternoon 21 February 1922, at their home in Pleasant Avenue, Erskineville. This photo was apparently taken the following morning at Newtown Police Station.




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No entry for Fiori/Permontto is found in the NSW Police Gazette for 1924, although this photo appears in a later photo supplement, in which Fiori is described as a safebreaker.



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Kong Lee makes numerous appearances in the NSW Police Gazette as a ‘safe blower’ and ‘thief’, and is noted in the issue of February 1929 as having recently been seen riding trains ‘in the company of card sharpers and spielers’.



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Walter Keogh appears in the Photo Supplement to the 1923 NSW Police Gazette (7 February Group 1 p. 4) identified as a pickpocket, and later in 1928 (26 December, Group 4 p. 15) as a ‘suspected person and bogus land salesman’. Keogh was also profiled in exposes in the newspaper Truth in 1928, as a ‘go-getter’, ie a con man who sells suburban building blocks at grossly inflated prices, by falsely leading the buyers to believe the lots may be promptly resold for a huge profit.



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Patrick Riley (alias Matthew Edward Riley) was convicted in October 1924 of making counterfeit coins, and of having a coining instrument (ie a mould) in his possession, for which he was sentenced to two years imprisonment with hard labour.




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Walter Smith is listed in the NSW Police Gazette, 24 December 1924, as ‘charged with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Edward Mulligan and stealing blinds with a value 20 pounds (part recovered)’, and with ‘stealing clothing, a value of 26 pounds (recovered) in the dwelling house of Ernest Leslie Mortimer.’ Sentenced to 6 months hard labour.



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A picture of Sidney Grant (alias ‘Pretty Sid’) appears in the ‘Criminal Photographs’ section of the New South Wales Police Gazette, 2 May 1923 captioned ‘Confidence man (notes for gold)’. In his landmark sociological work, The Big Con (first published in 1940) David Maurer describes a con trick known as “the hot-seat”, then being practiced in Europe by “such masters of their profession as Pretty Sid, Snowy T-, Kangaroo John, Melbourne Murray, Devil’s Island Eddie, Slab B[rennan] …” It was not unusual then for the most accomplished Australian con artists to seek fresh fields in Britain, Europe (especially France) and North America, where their skills were held in high regard by fellow professionals.




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Details surrounding this particular photograph are unknown, but Sidney Kelly was arrested many times and much written about in newspapers during the 1920s, 30s and 40s. He was charged with numerous offences including shooting, and assault, and in the 1940s was a pioneer of illegal baccarat gaming in Sydney. This image appears in the Photo Supplement to the NSW Police Gazette, 26 July 1926, p. 6 captioned, “Illicit drug trader. Drives his own motor car, and dresses well. Associates with criminals and prostitutes.”



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Harold Price was a thief and gunman. This photograph was taken after he was was arrested and charged with committing robbery under arms at a house in Randwick, Sydney, for which he was sentenced to two years hard labour.



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The handwritten inscription on this unnumbered Special Photograph reads ‘Frederick Edward Davies stealing in picture shows and theatres Dets Surridge Clark and Breen Central 14-7-21′. Police held sneak thieves in particularly low regard, which may account for the decision to photograph Davies in front of the police station’s toilet stalls.



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The precise circumstances surrounding this picture are unknown, but Ellis is found in numerous police records of the 1910s, 20s and 30s. He is variously listed as a housebreaker, a shop breaker, a safe breaker, a receiver and a suspected person. A considerably less self-assured Ellis appears in the NSW Criminal Register of 29 August 1934 (no. 206). His convictions by then include ‘goods in custody, indecent langauge, stealing, receiving and throwing a missile.
 
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So his passing was submerged under the double media blitzes of ISIS and Ferguson... but Robin Williams was a great American and did a ton to contribute to the USO... entertaining a generation of folks overseas. But this is from 1982... he was still doing Mork and Mindy... when he recorded this.

Brilliant and touching. A guy who, in my opinion, we all lost too soon.

In great respect,

Sirhr
 
F#ckin idiots

Yes, they are fucking idiots. Making matters even worse is they are lazy fucking idiots. Not one additional ounce of eloquence is required to describe the cross-eyed, drooling, mouth breathing, troglodyte masses hunched over the editorial desks at the Huffington Post. But let's go a bit further and see what sort off effect such lazy fucking idiots can have. The following is from Ryan J. Reilly's LinkedIn resume:

Congressional Intern
U.S. House of Representatives
August 2006 – December 2006 (5 months)
Managed constituent correspondence, drafted responses to inquires on legislative issues.

Handled office communications including phone calls, visitors, and mail.

Aided with congressional research, attended meetings regarding current government issues.


I can only imagine the rigor with which this dolt approached his congressional "research". It's bad enough that John Q public might call his representative and have to endure the hollow squirting sounds of Mr. Reilly on the other end of the phone, but this guys work (and hundreds just like him) can affect public policy. Lest Ryan be dismissed offhandedly as a moronic outlyer amongst moronic journalists, I say nay. He is one of the cream molecules at the pinnacle of American media blather spewing. Also from his LinkedIn resume:

UWIRE 100 Best and Brightest Student Journalists, 2009


And should you doubt for one nanosecond the unfortunate weight an intern might throw in the wrong direction:

Terrible NTSB Intern Blamed for KTVU's ?Ho Lee Fuk? Blunder

NTSB blames the intern, a time-honored tradition - In the Loop - The Washington Post

Politics News: 5 Times Politicians Have 'Blamed the Intern' For Embarrassing Tweets | InTheCapital

His research via tweeting is but a hint of the journalistic doldrums we find in the world of pop media.
 
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