Mark 'Chopper' Read has died

[daydream**believer]

He was 58 years old

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/soapbox/article/-/19320733/mark-chopper-read-dead/

[*mrgrizz*]

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@alexander*beetle wrote:

On this forum there is always outrage when a child is damaged by incompetent and abusive parents. People scream for their blood and sympathise with the child who has endured the pain.

So what do we do as a society to help repair those damaged children. Chopper was a diagnosed sociopath. He underwent a horrific childhood, 60 or more ECT treatments and numerous psychiatric hospitalisations. All mainly due to his treatment as a child. He simply did not have the mental or emotional capacity to deal with life the way most people do.

I'm not excusing for one minute the things he inflicted on people. But I always think of what has happened to someone in their upbringing that makes them the person they become.

He did turn his life around, against all the odds, and you have to admire that if nothing else.

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he turned his life around?

but yet he continued to profit from his crimes.

[clair.de.lune]

sad sacks

[*elizabeths-mum*]

He did and he didnt, mr grizz. He legally couldnt profit financially from anything connected to his crimes so any profits went to a charity he chose (?childrens hospital maybe?) however he profited in reputation as being a wonderful charitable man who gave to others. I've just been on fb and am amazed at the outpourings of grief for such a wonderful citizen. Canonisation next?

[clair.de.lune]

 Canonisation

[lionrose.7]

Look we want crims to change and when they do we still complain.

Ok he was not a saint but he did change his life around.

[freddie*rooster]

Saint Mark Chopper patron saint of the standover men.

[azureline**]

Saint Earless

[lakeland27]

i have an aversion to sharpies.  they gave us nothing but grief when i was a boy/teenager. always with the knives and guns the lunatics.

still, a sharpie song is fitting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZGdyPHSHNw

[*crikey*mate*]

I am pretty sure that the majority of people are not complaining because this man changed his criminal ways, but I can't see that there is a need to make a big deal out of the fact that he finally began to live his life within the boundaries of the law. I mean, that's kind of an expectation for participation in and membership of a civilized society, isn't it?

a man was born.

stuff happened

he went off the rails

he got back on them

then he died.

[serendipityricho]

Chopper was a mystery man.---lived a checkered life.

He hated -drugs and drug dealers and did Victoria a favour by

getting rid of this scum in his own way.---got the main dealers.

Unfortunately -over a short time they were replaced by others.

RIP Chopper....................................Richo.