# My daddy was a bankrobber, he never hurt nobody **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862 "2025-01-12T03:52:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/1 "2025-01-12T03:52:33Z")
So, do any of you have a serious criminal(s) in the family? I have a brother who went to jail for faked credit cards, and i myself went to jail for 30 days, for obviously no reason. So any crime stories in your family? Id love a murder story… Are you, or your family in the mafia? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/2 "2025-01-12T04:01:38Z")
My ancestors were kicked out of the finest countries in Europe. That’s the best I can do. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/3 "2025-01-12T04:04:55Z")
My paternal uncle, the preacher, served five years for bank robbery as a young man. He worked as a teller and was the inside man. Becoming a preacher was a lateral move in my opinion. One of my moms younger brothers kneecapped a man with a baseball bat as that man was exiting a bar. Apparently, the man had beaten and threatened him earlier. I think that my uncles immediately subsequent service in the army was the result. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/4 "2025-01-12T04:14:47Z")
Thats interesting ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/5 "2025-01-12T04:16:59Z")
Why were they kicked of the finest countries in Europe? You said “finest” so why would they be kicked out of Norway? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/6 "2025-01-12T04:25:59Z")
My FIL was a bankrobber. Drove the getaway car. Someone got killed, and he did time, although he was not involved in the holdup or shooting per se. He never talked about it, and I didn’t ask him about it. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/7 "2025-01-12T04:27:36Z")
> [@Loggins](#): > > i myself went to jail for 30 days, for obviously no reason. You first… ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/8 "2025-01-12T04:37:10Z")
I would attach a describing picture if i could embed pics here. So if you can help me turning a picture into a web adress… ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/9 "2025-01-12T04:40:25Z")
[![Imgur](https://s.imgur.com/images/logo-1200-630.png "Imgur") ](https://imgur.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/10 "2025-01-12T04:43:25Z")
My great-great grandfather embezzled money from the government and disappeared. Based on census records, my mother thinks he ended up in an asylum the last few years of his life sometime in the early 20th century. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/11 "2025-01-12T04:47:09Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > My ancestors were kicked out of the finest countries in Europe. Pshaw! Mine were kicked out of the gutters of Belfast, Dublin, and Kilkenny. We are the foulest bunch of rogues, pickpockets, thieves, and drunkards you could ever hope to avoid. And we are for hire, no job too rough, no task too dirty, no commission too mean. You may pay us in gold or whiskey, so long as it is Irish, Catholic or Protestant, it ní matter, but please, no Tullamore D.E.W. or watery “Proper No. 12”; we demand real liquor for hard men and fiery women. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/12 "2025-01-12T04:53:21Z")
[Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://imgur.com/a/Uzey0NH) Noone died ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/13 "2025-01-12T04:54:41Z")
Ouch. I assume that was your fault, or at least you got the blame. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/14 "2025-01-12T04:55:22Z")
Yes and yes, short prison time ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/15 "2025-01-12T04:55:39Z")
Years ago when I was about 11 two of my 15 year old male cousins were arguing out on some property we used for picnics/etc. One shot the other but never confessed. The other cousin was presumed missing and there was much adult angst that went on for about 6 months. It was traumatizing for me even from the distance of being very young. My father assisted with the attempts to find out where the missing cousin might have gone. A hunter found his skeleton in the woods in November of that year and there was a closed casket funeral. About 12 years later the other cousin committed suicide. His parents owned a bus company so he went into the garage and turned on the buses until he died of carbon monoxide poisoning. I have a few other sordid tales… ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/16 "2025-01-12T04:56:49Z")
OMG, sorry about your cousine ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/17 "2025-01-12T05:00:56Z")
Well, I had a great-uncle whose second wife attempted to murder him with the help of her lover. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/18 "2025-01-12T05:00:56Z")
It still kind of haunts me at times. This was in the early late 1960s/1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Loggins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Loggins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loggins)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/19 "2025-01-12T05:09:27Z")
Fully understand. the OP was not meant to be tragic, sorry. Just more lighthearted stories about murder and horror. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862/20 "2025-01-12T05:15:08Z")
> [@Loggins](#): > > Fully understand. the OP was not meant to be tragic, sorry. Just more lighthearted stories about murder and horror. It was so long ago but it was one of those things that never leaves you totally. It was so crazy. For more lighthearted fare I was in jail on my honeymoon lol. In Toledo. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daddy-was-a-bankrobber-he-never-hurt-nobody/1012862.md?page=2)