Have you Ever Personally Known a Murderer?

[katmai]

Marty is angry about the wrong thing.

I haven't been here long but that doesn't seem to be a rare occurrence. 

Who the fuck are you? Another sock?

Sweet Jebus you really don't pay attention do you?

[Martinus]

Not really, no.

[Grey Fox]

I don't think I do.

I do know a couple of suicides.

[Pat]

Don't know any murderers or sex offenders. Mother of one of my best friends commited suicide recently (she had first studied to become a psychologist and then to become a psychiatrist but presumably never found what she was looking for).

[viper37]

The question came up in another context. For me, at first I thought the answer was "no', but then I remembered that a friend of my dad had confessed to me to murdering a guy during his WW2 service - so, if he wasn't lying, that makes one.

Unsure...
I've know guys affiliated with the Hell's Angels, but they weren't "full patch", so it's not official that they killed anyone at this point.  Beating people up and putting them in a coma, check.
Stealing and beating old ladies, check.
Dealing drugs on large scale, check.
Enforcing drug sale territory, check.
Prostitution, check.

But murder, I don't think so.  Not that it would necessarly change my opinion of the guys.  It really depend on whom was killed.

[Ed Anger]

The question came up in another context. For me, at first I thought the answer was "no', but then I remembered that a friend of my dad had confessed to me to murdering a guy during his WW2 service - so, if he wasn't lying, that makes one.

Unsure...
I've know guys affiliated with the Hell's Angels, but they weren't "full patch", so it's not official that they killed anyone at this point.  Beating people up and putting them in a coma, check.
Stealing and beating old ladies, check.
Dealing drugs on large scale, check.
Enforcing drug sale territory, check.
Prostitution, check.

But murder, I don't think so.  Not that it would necessarly change my opinion of the guys.  It really depend on whom was killed.

I've always found the tv documentaries on the Hell's Angels up in Quebec fascinating.

[viper37]

I've always found the tv documentaries on the Hell's Angels up in Quebec fascinating.

Yeah, for some reason you let the Italians do it for you, while we take matter into our own hands

Been reading through the thread...  Of course, I knew people who commited suicide.  Someone I knew very well, after an accident that left him with diminished mental capacities (fell from a horse and was run over).

And I known a guy, he used to date my aunt, he got stoned and he drank, and he took his truck, and he got chased by cops, and he sped... and he killed 2 people in a car accident and seriously wounded a kid in the car (whose mother and sister got killed).  I knew one of the girl, I was in high school with her.  Nice girl.  Her mom was nice too.  Didn't know her young sister though.

The guy was a weirdo.  Of course I'd say anyone who do drugs is a weirdo but even among that crowd, he was a weirdo and borderline dangerous/insane (my aunt always seems to have great taste in men ). 
But he prevented me from doing a huge mistake at one point in my life, and I'll be forever grateful to him for that.

[viper37]

A twist to the question: How many registered sex offenders do you know?

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Then again, I don't think that thing exists here (for public view, I'm sure of it, but I do not know if the cops have their own registry; I think we consider hunters to be more dangerous than rapists or pedophiles ).

[viper37]

But, if he confessed it so many times I'm surprised no one ever reported him for it. In fact that may have been what he was looking for by confessing over and over like that.

Well, it's kinda tough to report such a crime.  "He told me he killed someone in WWII".  No name, no time, no specific place (ok, onboard a ship on the Atlantic).  The cops could interrogate him, but if he denies it and claims he made up that story, without a body and 40 years ago there's no way he's gonna be charged with anything.

[Admiral Yi]

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Then again, I don't think that thing exists here (for public view, I'm sure of it, but I do not know if the cops have their own registry; I think we consider hunters to be more dangerous than rapists or pedophiles ).

I was going to say, does Montreal actually have any sex laws for people to break?

edit: I meant Quebec of course.  Stop twisting my words.

[viper37]

This thread makes me think:  How would Languish feel if I were to buy out a cruise liner and take you all on a trans-Atlantic cruise?

Marty should be worried?

[viper37]

I was going to say, does Montreal actually have any sex laws for people to break?

edit: I meant Quebec of course.  Stop twisting my words.

Criminal code is handled by Ottawa

There is no minimum sentencing for most crimes, there is a bill to be voted in 2010 that if it pass will put a minimum sentence for sex offenses (raping of adults and kids).  The Bloc Québécois is of course against this, but all other parties are in favour.

As far as sex laws goes... well, even if there's a registry you won't be put on it for sleeping with a prostitute, and no 18 y.o. will be on it for sleeping with his 15 yo girlfriend.

And I kinda like how the laws are now, even though sometimes I think the age of consent for gay sex should be higher.

[The Brain]

I suggest 200 of your Earth years.

[Stonewall]

I know a dozen or so.  The most interesting of whom was this guy.  Went into the woods, and killed 2 campers with an AK-47. 

[katmai]

Yes, but what about in your professional life?