Submitted by Shark-Farts t3_119ycay in todayilearned
Same with lynchings.
People like to commentate being at historical events.
Commemorate?
Combobulate?
Commensurate?
Confabulate?
Consummate?
Compensate?
Compassionate?
Consommé?
Consulate?
Concavitate?
>The deafened officers inspected the vehicle and discovered an arsenal of weapons, including stolen automatic rifles, sawed-off semi-automatic shotguns, assorted handguns, and several thousand rounds of ammunition, along with fifteen sets of license plates from various states.[101] Hamer stated: "I hate to bust the cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down, however if it wouldn't have been her, it would have been us."
TIL that term goes back a long way.
>Preliminary embalming was done by Bailey in a small preparation room in the back of the furniture store, as it was common for furniture stores and undertakers to share the same space.
TIL this as well, wtf?
I’d bet that the phrase “bust a cap” comes before widespread use of metallic cartridges, because of the percussion cap which was used on muzzleloaders
I helps if you think of caskets as furniture. Both involve wood working.
The old dirt couch
A lot of rap slang is just 30’s gangster slang.
Eliot Ness is a great example.
Chances are you didn't hear about him in a history book prior to hearing his name mentioned in a song.
One reason being both embalmers and furniture makers use formaldehyde.
I learned this recently, too! It makes sense, too that the casket maker was also the cabinet and furniture maker: the carpenter.
The law enforcement officers who participated in the ambush divvyed up Bonnie & Clyde's weapons as trophies. Like old fashioned privateers. So it's no stretch to think that they could also keep the car.
the car with the bullet holes is still on tour / in a museum on display.
About 30 years ago I saw it on display at the Texas Rangers Museum near Waco.
Actually it lives at a gas station outside Vegas. Seriously. Google it. Bonnie and Clyde death car. Believe it’s at terrible’s
This comment is odd, like you’re going on the defensive for a long-dead Sheriff. It reads like he didn’t do anything wrong, it’s not a stretch for him to have thought he could keep the car
Ok, but then the legal owner showed up to claim the car and instead of saying oh, I wanted to have it, but you are the rightful owner, so here’s the key he doubled down and refused to let her take it, saying she would have to pay him $15,000 for it (over 15x its original worth) because he knew it’s marketable value.
And then he had to be threatened by a local judge with jail time before he finally relented and gave the car back.
So - maybe it was a bit of a stretch to think he could keep something that didn’t belong to him and still had an owner who wanted it back. Unlike the weapons you mentioned, which didn’t have any living owners who were trying to retrieve them.
They called them privateers which is legal pirating, doesn't sound like they're defending anyone.
Sounds like they're saying "of course they thought they could keep the car, they already stole the weapons as trophies of their kill."
Top comment here. Cops are pirates 🏴☠️. They steal more than anyone else. There is a reason they don’t do undercover stings on other police. It’s because they would end up arresting every single one of these lowlife thieves.
> still covered with blood and human tissue
The werewolves in Shreveport must've loved that.
For anyone that might be interested in visiting the spot where they got gunned down, don't bother. I'm from that area, and I have taken folks there before. It's nothing more than an old, worn down, hard to read marker on the side of a country road in the middle of nowhere. There is a museum in the nearby small town (Gibsland), but there's not enough stuff in there to be worth free admission, let alone the few bucks that they charge.
For some reason this comment reads like the opening pages of a Stephen king novel
That thing still ran!?!? It had a million bullet holes.
Engine block sturdy, gas tank cheap.
Brevity. Wit.
Barrow loved the Ford V8 (this was a 1934 model). He wrote a letter on April 10, 1934, to Henry Ford: "While I still have got breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car you make. I have drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got every other car skinned and even if my business hasn't been strictly legal it don't hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you got in the V-8."
It's interesting that the car was in the Primadonna Casino for so long with a big sign advertising it, but no one ever says anything about the murder bathroom right there at the Primadonna Casino.
The what now
It's a terrible story:
Absurd that his buddy just watched and got away with it and then bragged about getting money and fame out of it. Some people can’t see hell fast enough
Yep, I agree. The whole story is terrible. The girl's own dad was also a piece of shit.
Misdirection
They took that car on tour. I know a woman who was a kid in the seventies whose parents thought taking her to see it was a good idea.
It is classic Americana. I think it would’ve been cool to see as a teenager. How young was your friend?
She thought it was interesting. I'm not sure, but I think maybe 12 or 13?
Yeah, that might be a bit young for some. It’s definitely interesting. Hell, I’d love to check it out. It’s a pretty wild story.
And parodied in Fallout New Vegas, where the Primm casino has a car belonging to an amusingly less criminally violent duo.
I went to Europe at 14 and walked a concentration camp. Kids need harsh history early or they become the fools who fall for the same old nonsense.
i just went to a concentration camp last week, im 15 and it’s deffo opened my eyes
The car is now located in Stateline NV at a shitty casino on the border. It’s a tourist trap on the way to Las Vegas.
Frank Hammer was the leader of the poses that killed Bonnie and Clyde.
Strike a pose there’s nothing to it ..vogue vogue -Madonna
It seems corrupt cops have always existed.
👨🚀🔫👨🚀
How about corrupt PEOPLE have always existed.
That is also true.
Ew
There is a letter in a museum in Sulphur Louisiana from their friend that turned them in for the reward. It was hand written and said where they would be found near Shreveport. All I remember. I read it ages and ages ago.
Only in Shreveport my SO would say who grew up in Bossier.
Cops always think they can steal anything they want. Total pos pirates 🏴☠️
Kurotan t1_j9p9fu9 wrote
The car is the least disturbing part.
>A crowd soon gathered at the spot. Gault and Alcorn were left to guard the bodies, but they lost control of the jostling, curious throng; one woman cut off bloody locks of Parker's hair and pieces from her dress, which were subsequently sold as souvenirs. Hinton returned to find a man trying to cut off Barrow's trigger finger, and was sickened by what was occurring.