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For the same reason people read about serial killers...we don't understand, and we want to see what makes them tick. What interested me about this article was
by thinkbohemian 17y ago
For the same reason people read about serial killers...we don't understand, and we want to see what makes them tick.
What interested me about this article was his perception of his situations. It reminds me of Al Pacino's monologue in "Two for the Money" something about how gamblers are only happy when they're on the bottom, because there's no where to go but up. Everyone wants to be good at something...
- JshWright 17y agoI guess that explains why it's on HN. It still doesn't explain the author's glorification of his incompetence... From the bottom of page 4: "It would have been reasonable to assume that a man with Tackmann’s criminal smarts would be on a Greyhound bus to Virginia or Florida or anywhere across state lines to get out of New York. But he went to Spanish Harlem." It seems like the entire article is about this criminal genius who is so insanely good at being a criminal, he actually appears to be a _bad_ criminal. Why not just make the leap to the conclusion that he simply sucks at being a criminal?
- thinkbohemian 17y agoHe's so good at predicting human behavior and noticing minutia...his tales of escape place him well above the average intelligence of a typical inmate...yet he robs places as if he was in a 70's straight to beta-max released cop movie. The two pieces of the puzzle just don't add up.