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Bum Farto
- Nursie 2y agoPretty sure Bum Farto was my player name in a bunch of 90s games. Also possible Star Wars character. Is this just an experiment to gauge the puerility of HN upvoters? Because you got me.
- aaronbrethorst 2y agoGlup Shitto's second cousin.
- metadat 2y agoHow could the US Government justify declaring Bum Farto dead when he only would have been in his mid 60's? The whole story reeks of good-old-boys-club dimensions from beginning to end. He had no education, and lived a sketchily and inexplicably ostentatious life. Outcome: Drug dealer.
- whall6 2y agoThis has to be AI generated
- metadat 2y ago@whall6: Can you clarify? Not sure I follow. Bum Farto was born in 1919, declared dead in absentia in 1986, making him 67 years old. What judge lets high profile drug dealers go home to await sentencing?
- CobrastanJorji 2y ago[flagged]
- flysand7 2y agoWell it's been 10 years since he went missing. When people go missing for a long time they are declared legally dead, regardless of their age
- metrognome 2y agoAccording to the article, he disappeared in 1976 (48 years ago). Apologies for the pedantry.
- throawayonthe 2y agothey mean at time of being declared legally dead (1986) it's been 10 years since he disappeared (1976)
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI'm pretty sure that the GP understood that, and was just being nitpicky about grammar. It's incorrect grammar to say "it has been 10 years" in this case.
- travisjungroth 2y agoAt the time he was declared legally dead it had been 10 years.
- bityard 2y ago> so that his wife could collect his pension and insurance policies, worth about $5,000 and $2,000 respectively
- swiftcoder 2y agoEven in '86 dollars, that's not a whole lot of inheritance
- odyssey7 2y agoI was wondering if they meant per month?
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago5k a month pension, and in 1986??
- yencabulator 2y agoHe did have to put $25,000 into bail. And probably wasn't the kind of person to put his drug dealing money into a bank.
- whall6 2y agoLook Mom “Bum Farto” is on the front page of Hacker News! The world is healing
- fdhfdjkfhdkj 2y ago[dead]
- akira2501 2y ago> The shopkeeper said the t-shirts were purchased in large numbers, and he reported that his buyers were "probably kids who like to do a lot of coke", as well as Charles Addams. There was a much better way to phrase that. > "Where is Bum Farto?” It clings to T-shirts sold by Taylor-GIore a Key West novelty shop "I would say we sold 600 of them and we sent them all over the country” said storeowner Rob Glore Purchasers include cartoonist Charles Addams a lawyers’ softball team in Washington and composer Jerome Weidman Glore said the store began selling the white shirts with "El Jefe” on the front in big red letters and "Where Is Bum Farto?” on the back in March and was sold out by August Another 100 shirts are on ' order he said and there’s a waiting list of about 20 “I’ve been out all fall long” That's far more informative and less of a joke at Charles' expense.
- bityard 2y agoYes, but the first is far funnier and therefore better.
- bityard 2y agoMan, this really sounds like the plot to a Cohen Brothers movie. Or maybe it's just in Florida. (Checks) Yeah, okay, Florida.
- mouse_ 2y ago[flagged]
- trhway 2y ago>The Civil Service Board, which was headed by Fire Chief Farto's nephew >He was brought to county jail with fellow narcotics criminal Manny Jones, the city attorney and son of the police chief. small town vibes.
- netsharc 2y agoLooks like someone's a Regulation Listener...
- dasv 2y ago516 people in Spain with Farto as first surname, 485 as second surname. None with both. Quite rare. You can check distribution out yourself in a map with this neat tool from the Spanish Statistics Institute https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml As an aside, I spent some days last week around that zone and found out about the existence of the surname Pis, which has a similar distribution and rarity, and is even more unfortunate since it means "pee" in Spanish. At least Farto is only funny in English. Since in Spain you get your first surname from your father's first surname and your second from your mother's first that sometimes also leads to unintended hilarity in names (example, real person, Luz Cuesta Mogollón, which roughly translates to "electricity costs a bunch"!)
- Xen9 2y agoI would have done the same. I think in general world has too much prison and too little kicking the convinct off, even though monitoring that they dont come back is a problem.
- JSDevOps 2y ago> He was nicknamed Bum because he fetched the firefighters' coffee and shined their shoes Yeah I am sure that's not why he got the nickname Bum, Farto!