# Whitey Bulger, finally arrested at 81 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 23, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531 "2011-06-23T05:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/1 "2011-06-23T05:11:00Z")
Interesting… Only took them 16 years! [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110623/ap\_on\_re\_us/us\_whitey\_bulger\_arrested](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110623/ap_on_re_us/us_whitey_bulger_arrested) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/2 "2011-06-23T05:26:18Z")
No shit! I wonder if the hair salon and plastic surgeon ads did him in. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/3 "2011-06-23T10:21:15Z")
When this criminal sings, he will implicate dozens of people-including a lot of ex-FBI agents. The corrupt Boston FBI office worked ahnd in glove with this monster…and ex-agent John Connolly (now in Federal prison), was complicit in at least two murders. Happy days, Whitey-may you rot in hell! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/4 "2011-06-23T13:23:09Z")
Bin Laden last month, Whitey Bulger this month. Next month I predict the Loch Ness Monster will be discovered gnawing on the bones of Jimmy Hoffa. ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/5 "2011-06-23T13:28:38Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Bin Laden last month, Whitey Bulger this month. Next month I predict the Loch Ness Monster will be discovered gnawing on the bones of Jimmy Hoffa. Or vice versa. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/6 "2011-06-23T13:36:31Z")
**F** rustratingly **B** elated **I** ncarcerations ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/7 "2011-06-23T13:52:40Z")
His name still sounds like an entry from the Urban Dictionary. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/8 "2011-06-23T14:06:41Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > His name still sounds like an entry from the Urban Dictionary. Right next to the term “Death Pit” ---
**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:** [June 23, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/9 "2011-06-23T14:09:05Z")
You see, this is a perfect example of how The Man is keeping Whitey down. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/10 "2011-06-23T14:15:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Bin Laden last month, Whitey Bulger this month. Next month I predict the Loch Ness Monster will be discovered gnawing on the bones of Jimmy Hoffa. This [thing](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3652122/Chinese-find-55ft-sea-monster.html) washed up on a beach in China yesterday, does it count? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/11 "2011-06-23T15:20:19Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > This [thing](http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3652122/Chinese-find-55ft-sea-monster.html) washed up on a beach in China yesterday, does it count? Not to hijack, but here’s [another article I found](http://manverse.com/2011/06/22/55ft-sea-monster-washes-ashore-in-china/)on this w/ more photos included. What the hell is that thing??? (Maybe I’ll start a new thread.) ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/12 "2011-06-23T17:09:20Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Not to hijack, but here’s [another article I found](http://manverse.com/2011/06/22/55ft-sea-monster-washes-ashore-in-china/)on this w/ more photos included. What the hell is that thing??? (Maybe I’ll start a new thread.) Well, it looks exactly like a whale. Coupled with the fact that past unknown monsters washing up have often turned out to be partly decaying whale corpses, I’m going to go with “whale.” ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/13 "2011-06-23T18:06:48Z")
I can’t believe old Whitey’s in jail. I wonder what they’ll prosecute him for first? The DA must be in a gleeful stupor. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/14 "2011-06-24T05:42:45Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > You see, this is a perfect example of how The Man is keeping Whitey down. OK, that really did make me laugh out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/15 "2011-06-24T06:58:15Z")
His wikipedia used to have a whole section on his sexuality, claiming he’d had affairs with certain men. It was well written (not wiki vandal- “There is speculation he’s a big time faggot” type stuff). It’s not there now but may be in the history. I always wondered if it was put there to see if anybody tried to change or delete it and lasso their IP address. I had a friend I used to play “find Whitey” with whenever we were at Civil War sites or house museums or whatever because his FBI description and others (probably based on the FBI description) all said he loved museums and battlefields. I can’t imagine this is that common for some on the Most Wanted List. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/16 "2011-06-24T15:07:14Z")
My sister, who thinks that Obama is not so much the anti-Christ has the anti-Christ’s evil twin who smothered him in utero, must have shit herself when she read the headline “Government Says Whitey to Stand Trial For His Crimes”. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/17 "2011-06-24T16:15:52Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > His wikipedia used to have a whole section on his sexuality, claiming he’d had affairs with certain men. It was well written (not wiki vandal- “There is speculation he’s a big time faggot” type stuff). > [@](#): > > My sister, who thinks that Obama is not so much the anti-Christ has the anti-Christ’s evil twin who smothered him in utero, must have shit herself when she read the headline “Government Says Whitey to Stand Trial For His Crimes”. I couldn’t stop laughing at either of these. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/18 "2011-06-24T16:45:55Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > His wikipedia used to have a whole section on his sexuality, claiming he’d had affairs with certain men. It was well written (not wiki vandal- “There is speculation he’s a big time faggot” type stuff). It’s not there now but may be in the history. I read his entry last night and I remember seeing a single line about Bulger working as “a homosexual prostitute.” I thought it was surprising that wasn’t discussed further. It’s gone now. [The discussion page goes into why references to his sexuality keep getting removed.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Whitey_Bulger#Bisexuality) > [@Sailboat](#): > > His name still sounds like an entry from the Urban Dictionary. Like an Anthony Weiner? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/19 "2011-06-24T17:13:52Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I read his entry last night and I remember seeing a single line about Bulger working as “a homosexual prostitute.” I thought it was surprising that wasn’t discussed further. It’s gone now. [The discussion page goes into why references to his sexuality keep getting removed.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Whitey_Bulger#Bisexuality) Gotta love this reason. > [@](#): > > He wasn’t bisexual and that fat ass liar and dickhead howie carr would know shit about Whitey. Take Weeks’ word for it, instead of that fat ass carr. I wonder if the FBI ever has falsified a Wikipedia page on a fugitive. I think many if not most would check their wiki entry at some point as a matter of curiosity and for a narcissist a major and especially an insulting error would be difficult to let slide. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531/20 "2011-06-24T17:16:21Z")
I think that would be clever, but Whitey Bulger doesn’t sound like the type of crook who pays attention to Wikipedia. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whitey-bulger-finally-arrested-at-81/586531.md?page=2)