# Another senseless mobster revenge story. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 14, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-senseless-mobster-revenge-story/472722 "2008-11-14T16:30:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-senseless-mobster-revenge-story/472722/1 "2008-11-14T16:30:11Z")
Reminded of this by Cecil’s [answer](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2824/were-concrete-shoes-a-favored-technique-of-mob-hitmen) to the “concrete shoes” question, I come to the SDMB for an answer to my own question. I was going to “Ask the Master”, but decided that maybe this was more suited for this forum. So: I remember a reference on some TV show about a high ranking mob boss murdering an innocent driver for accidently running over his kid. What is the truth of my faded memory, and the details? Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-senseless-mobster-revenge-story/472722/2 "2008-11-14T16:35:13Z")
I believe that was John Gotti who chainsawed some poor schlub for just that reason. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-senseless-mobster-revenge-story/472722/3 "2008-11-14T16:38:42Z")
> [@](#): > > In 1980, a neighbor accidentally ran over and killed Gotti’s 12-year-old son, Frank. The man, John Favara, began receiving threatening phone calls after the incident and was planning to move out of the neighborhood. But witnesses said he was beaten up by several men as he walked in front of his home and was then stuffed into a car. His body has never been found. [The 'Dapper Don' Was Last Celebrity Mobster](http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/11/local/me-gotti11) ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-senseless-mobster-revenge-story/472722/4 "2008-11-14T16:40:05Z")
Definitely Gotti. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_Gotti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gotti) I’ve heard Gotti’s daughter talk about it on TV, and while not admitting that her father personally whacked the guy, she talked quite bitterly about the driver holding a cheerful barbeque within a short time of her brother’s death, with a definite air of "he had it comin’ " ETA: Dang, you’re fast **Gfactor** ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-senseless-mobster-revenge-story/472722/5 "2008-11-14T20:43:18Z")
> [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](#): > > Definitely Gotti. > > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_Gotti](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gotti) > > I’ve heard Gotti’s daughter talk about it on TV, and while not admitting that her father personally whacked the guy, she talked quite bitterly about the driver holding a cheerful barbeque within a short time of her brother’s death, with a definite air of "he had it comin’ " > > ETA: Dang, you’re fast **Gfactor** I saw her too. She’s a real piece of work (bitch).