Meet the ‘Balcony Pain’, ‘Fratez’ and ‘D Sixty’ gangs of Bangkok, who aspire to the gangsta lifestyle and fashion of Mexican Esés.
Then go and have a nice lie down.
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@broadsheet_ie is it just me or is ‘little general’ the WORST gangster name ever? (today’s Evening Herald) twitter.com/alanjdaly/stat…— Alan Daly (@alanjdaly) August 17, 2012
The ultimate ‘gangsta ride’ comes up for auction at the end of this month.
This 5.5L V8 Town Sedan, formerly owned by Chicago’s most notorious hoodlum, was one of the first ever bulletproof vehicles, originally fitted with 3000lbs of steel armour and reinforced windows (since replaced).
A steal at between $300,000 and $500,000.
Henry Hill, the mafia ‘rat’ immortalised in Scorsese’s Goodfellas has died in LA, aged 69.
Hill was born to an Irish father and Sicilian mother in New York in 1943 and joined the Lucchese crime family, one of the city’s Five Families. He excelled at his chosen profession, hijacking trucks, fixing basketball games, collecting gambling debts, dealing drugs and “breaking heads”.
Goodfellas, based on Nicholas Pileggi’s book “Wiseguy”, details how following the 1978 Lufthansa heist at JFK airport, then the largest cash robbery on US soil, he “turned rat” and sent a string of Mafia figures to jail.
And he got to live out the rest of his life like a schnook.
Goodfellas Inspiration Henry Hill Dies (Telegraph)
(Hat tip: Aaron Macallorum)