# Criminals With Apt Names... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 7, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365 "2017-06-07T15:51:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/21 "2017-06-08T15:40:40Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I’ve also had patients with the last name of Badboy and Killer. > > true. Did they work on Wall Street? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/22 "2017-06-08T16:04:48Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Did they work on Wall Street? Depends. A Wall Street, like say in Phelps? Or Lac du Flambeau? Or does it have to be in Manhattan? ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/23 "2021-05-01T00:45:36Z")
I don’t want to resurrect a zombie thread. But I’m sorry, I just had to add: Derek Chauvin, the cop recently convicted of murder. Did you know Napoleon I had a ‘soldier’ (according to my dictionary) named N. Chauvin, noted for his blind loyalty? That is where we get the term chauvinism from. That’s got to be ironic. (I didn’t want to start a hot debate. I just thought it was ironic.) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/24 "2021-05-04T17:49:56Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Or Lac du Flambeau? Hell of a name, that! ---
**Author:** ![Acierocolotl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acierocolotl/32/6241_2.png) [@Acierocolotl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acierocolotl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/25 "2021-05-04T17:59:25Z")
Well, this this shambler is up and about and on my radar, permit me to share a pair of individuals whose names amuse me greatly. Firstly, Loser “Lou” Lane, who made sergeant in 2003 in New York’s police service, and retired in 2011. And his brother, Winner Lane, who was first arrested in 1977, starting off a long streak of “interactions” with the law. [Sergeant Loser J. Lane](https://www.capstat.nyc/officer/p55172/) [More about the siblings on Slate.](https://slate.com/business/2005/04/a-roshanda-by-any-other-name.html) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/26 "2021-05-04T18:41:58Z")
Arrested for prostitution in Iowa in 2016: Amanda Guzzle. > **[Two arrested in prostitution sting](https://www.thegazette.com/news/two-arrested-in-prostitution-sting/)** > > CEDAR RAPIDS – A Cedar Rapids woman and a Waterloo man were caught in a prostitution sting Wednesday. Public safety … ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/27 "2021-05-04T19:05:15Z")
> [@Jim\_B](#): > > Did you know Napoleon I had a ‘soldier’ (according to my dictionary) named N. Chauvin, noted for his blind loyalty? Many historians claim that Nicolas Chauvin was a complete fictional character created by songwriters and bards and popularized by Cogniard brothers’ in 1831, as a model of overt loyalty. And not really a criminal, and not really ironic. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/28 "2021-05-04T21:20:46Z")
A few years ago here in Anderson, Indiana, I saw campaign signs for a state rep candidate named Rob Steele. He wasn’t elected, but I remember thinking it was a terrible name for a politician. Robert, or Bob? No, he ran as Rob Steele. ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2021, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/29 "2021-05-04T23:00:42Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Rob Steele Really reminds me of “Rip Torn.” ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/30 "2021-05-06T11:29:20Z")
A few years ago a guy was arrested for exposing and pleasuring himself to unsuspecting women in the parking lot at a local shopping mall. His name - and I’m not kidding - was Handy Wood. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/31 "2021-05-06T17:10:15Z")
I always thought that if I were writing a novel and I gave my villain the last name of “Hiss”, people would find it a ridiculous over-the-top last name for a spy. Not that we know for sure if Alger Hiss really was a spy…but he was convicted of perjury. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/32 "2021-05-06T17:37:52Z")
The closest I can get was when there was a high vacancy rate at Dahmer Apartments because the rent was an arm and a leg. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/33 "2021-05-06T17:39:30Z")
My step father’s last name was Boozer. If there was anybody that lived up to their name, he did. Multiple DUI’s over the years, kidney transplant at 48, he destroyed his. Died at 53, his death certificate said multiple alcohol related organ failures. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/34 "2021-05-06T17:47:18Z")
I also knew an inmate with surname Coffin, first name of Reno. Always made me think of that Johnny Cash song, **Folsom prison blues**. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/35 "2021-05-06T21:49:31Z")
New York law also defines sodomy as oral contact with a minor (different degrees for different ages/age differentials) so it’s not what you usually think. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365/36 "2021-05-07T11:38:40Z")
In 1956, Wilbert Coffin was hanged for murder. His guilt is still being questioned many years later. [Wilbert Coffin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbert_Coffin) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/criminals-with-apt-names/788365.md?page=1)