Bum Farto(en.wikipedia.org)
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Bum Farto
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I would have done the same. I think in general world has too much prison and too little kicking the convinct off, even though monitoring that they dont come back is a problem.
> He was nicknamed Bum because he fetched the firefighters' coffee and shined their shoes
Yeah I am sure that's not why he got the nickname Bum, Farto!
Yeah I am sure that's not why he got the nickname Bum, Farto!
Pretty sure Bum Farto was my player name in a bunch of 90s games.
Also possible Star Wars character.
Is this just an experiment to gauge the puerility of HN upvoters? Because you got me.
Also possible Star Wars character.
Is this just an experiment to gauge the puerility of HN upvoters? Because you got me.
Glup Shitto's second cousin.
How could the US Government justify declaring Bum Farto dead when he only would have been in his mid 60's?
The whole story reeks of good-old-boys-club dimensions from beginning to end. He had no education, and lived a sketchily and inexplicably ostentatious life. Outcome: Drug dealer.
The whole story reeks of good-old-boys-club dimensions from beginning to end. He had no education, and lived a sketchily and inexplicably ostentatious life. Outcome: Drug dealer.
> so that his wife could collect his pension and insurance policies, worth about $5,000 and $2,000 respectively
Even in '86 dollars, that's not a whole lot of inheritance
He did have to put $25,000 into bail. And probably wasn't the kind of person to put his drug dealing money into a bank.
This has to be AI generated
@whall6: Can you clarify? Not sure I follow.
Bum Farto was born in 1919, declared dead in absentia in 1986, making him 67 years old.
What judge lets high profile drug dealers go home to await sentencing?
Bum Farto was born in 1919, declared dead in absentia in 1986, making him 67 years old.
What judge lets high profile drug dealers go home to await sentencing?
Well it's been 10 years since he went missing. When people go missing for a long time they are declared legally dead, regardless of their age
According to the article, he disappeared in 1976 (48 years ago). Apologies for the pedantry.
At the time he was declared legally dead it had been 10 years.
they mean at time of being declared legally dead (1986) it's been 10 years since he disappeared (1976)
I'm pretty sure that the GP understood that, and was just being nitpicky about grammar. It's incorrect grammar to say "it has been 10 years" in this case.
Look Mom “Bum Farto” is on the front page of Hacker News! The world is healing
Someone needs to post Wikipedia article on Dick Trickle as well.
> The shopkeeper said the t-shirts were purchased in large numbers, and he reported that his buyers were "probably kids who like to do a lot of coke", as well as Charles Addams.
There was a much better way to phrase that.
> "Where is Bum Farto?” It clings to T-shirts sold by Taylor-GIore a Key West novelty shop "I would say we sold 600 of them and we sent them all over the country” said storeowner Rob Glore Purchasers include cartoonist Charles Addams a lawyers’ softball team in Washington and composer Jerome Weidman Glore said the store began selling the white shirts with "El Jefe” on the front in big red letters and "Where Is Bum Farto?” on the back in March and was sold out by August Another 100 shirts are on ' order he said and there’s a waiting list of about 20 “I’ve been out all fall long”
That's far more informative and less of a joke at Charles' expense.
There was a much better way to phrase that.
> "Where is Bum Farto?” It clings to T-shirts sold by Taylor-GIore a Key West novelty shop "I would say we sold 600 of them and we sent them all over the country” said storeowner Rob Glore Purchasers include cartoonist Charles Addams a lawyers’ softball team in Washington and composer Jerome Weidman Glore said the store began selling the white shirts with "El Jefe” on the front in big red letters and "Where Is Bum Farto?” on the back in March and was sold out by August Another 100 shirts are on ' order he said and there’s a waiting list of about 20 “I’ve been out all fall long”
That's far more informative and less of a joke at Charles' expense.
Yes, but the first is far funnier and therefore better.
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Man, this really sounds like the plot to a Cohen Brothers movie.
Or maybe it's just in Florida. (Checks) Yeah, okay, Florida.
Or maybe it's just in Florida. (Checks) Yeah, okay, Florida.
>The Civil Service Board, which was headed by Fire Chief Farto's nephew
>He was brought to county jail with fellow narcotics criminal Manny Jones, the city attorney and son of the police chief.
small town vibes.
>He was brought to county jail with fellow narcotics criminal Manny Jones, the city attorney and son of the police chief.
small town vibes.
Looks like someone's a Regulation Listener...
516 people in Spain with Farto as first surname, 485 as second surname. None with both. Quite rare. You can check distribution out yourself in a map with this neat tool from the Spanish Statistics Institute https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml
As an aside, I spent some days last week around that zone and found out about the existence of the surname Pis, which has a similar distribution and rarity, and is even more unfortunate since it means "pee" in Spanish. At least Farto is only funny in English.
Since in Spain you get your first surname from your father's first surname and your second from your mother's first that sometimes also leads to unintended hilarity in names (example, real person, Luz Cuesta Mogollón, which roughly translates to "electricity costs a bunch"!)
As an aside, I spent some days last week around that zone and found out about the existence of the surname Pis, which has a similar distribution and rarity, and is even more unfortunate since it means "pee" in Spanish. At least Farto is only funny in English.
Since in Spain you get your first surname from your father's first surname and your second from your mother's first that sometimes also leads to unintended hilarity in names (example, real person, Luz Cuesta Mogollón, which roughly translates to "electricity costs a bunch"!)