Parley Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 How sad ... What a life he lived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flathead Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 How sad ... What a life he lived. Indeed......if he had been born many years earlier he may have been transported to Australia.....at least he was spared that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parley Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 He came to Australia of his own free will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flathead Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 He came to Australia of his own free will. Didn't stay there though:laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counting Stars Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Aww it is sad. Thoughts with his family xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Yet another one signed out. Seems all to common of recent. I'd say Biggs lived a pretty full life though. He'd been sick awhile now so no surprises. He must have been a great character though in his hay day. RIP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akiralx Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 He was a minor player in the raid, and looked down on by the real criminals in the gang, as he had only been brought in as he could drive a train (which had to be moved a short distance from the hijacking site to Bridego Bridge where the money could be unloaded). Another gang member was recruited after boasting he could change train signals - only to reveal his 'skill' was clambering onto the overhead gantry and holding a coloured filter in front of the signal... A fascinating tale all the same. When I lived in Melbourne I always wanted to visit the Doncaster house where Biggs lived incognito with his family for quite a while. I believe his son (or was it stepson) was killed at a fairly young age in a carcrash at an intersection on what is now the Eastlink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I never romanticise criminals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest66881 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Criminals need locking up, not glorifying at whatever level he was as a criminal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flybyknight Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 seems a strange comment, slating criminals. this land we all come to this website to love, and aspire to come to has a somewhat criminal background. those free thinking enough to commit crime, have done a pretty good job of the place maybe it's the followers who just go with the flow, who need to take a look in the mirror? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest66881 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 seems a strange comment, slating criminals. this land we all come to this website to love, and aspire to come to has a somewhat criminal background. those free thinking enough to commit crime, have done a pretty good job of the place maybe it's the followers who just go with the flow, who need to take a look in the mirror? Whose your comments pointed at mate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flybyknight Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Whose your comments pointed at mate? toss a coin lol. a general comment. just seems a little odd to bash criminals when we spend most days admiring their work. i'm not suggesting a life of crime, far from it. It's a career like any other, sadly its one that chooses you rather than you choosing it. For the most part people are decent, when there is little in the way of work and a good outlook, creative people tend to look beyond the obvious. I wonder if it was this creativity, in the light of freedom, that built Australia the way it is today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight7 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Well he reached his 80s and had an 'interesting' life. He also hurt people ( wife, family, those he stole from) I don't feel sorry for him at all, why would you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest66881 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 He should have served time for the crime, not be made into some sort of 'working class' hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counting Stars Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I agree he should have done his time. I still think it's sad and feel for his family. I do think 30 years was excessive!! They don't get that for murder but that's a whole other thread lol xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parley Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 He committed his crime something like 60 years ago though. Since then, although on the run I don't think he was an active criminal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furkew Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I never romanticise criminals. well done. But, Ive got a life and Ronnie biggs and a lot of the London crims were a part of my early years as a youngster, and it was no different to how the aussies think about Ned Kelly. (born and bred cockney, and know more than you will ever read in the daily mail) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peach Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Me wonders how much of the anti-Thatcher mob, will now be celebrating the life of this ex-crim. The irony. :wubclub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peach Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 no different to how the aussies think about Ned Kelly. Should read: how some of the Aussies. Ned Kelly shot a policeman and let him bleed to death. What a hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flathead Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Me wonders how much of the anti-Thatcher mob, will now be celebrating the life of this ex-crim. The irony. :wubclub: More like the pro Thatcher mob will be celebrating his life......After all her government were a bunch of crooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peach Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 More like the pro Thatcher mob will be celebrating his life......After all her government were a bunch of crooks that's why they all got charged and went to prison?? blah... I mean the house of lords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furkew Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Should read: how some of the Aussies. Ned Kelly shot a policeman and let him bleed to death. What a hero. I'm not going to argue the toss about ned because its a never ending discussion. He is still an Australian folk hero and biggs is a british folk hero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 He should have served time for the crime, not be made into some sort of 'working class' hero. Far too late for that. Besides he paid for his crimes in ways others would have long done the time and moved on from. He was made into a working class hero and good on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 I'm not going to argue the toss about ned because its a never ending discussion. He is still an Australian folk hero and biggs is a british folk hero. The small people don't have many hero's from within their class. I say leave it be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flag of convenience Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 that's why they all got charged and went to prison?? blah... I mean the house of lords. Well the big and those of influence have to be real bad ar..s to do time. Prison is more to detain those the rich fear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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