This is Australian criminal Mark “Chopper” Read, who refused to even go on a liver transplant list, saying, “I’m 55 years old. I’m not going to put my name down against some 10-year-old kid.”
by Algrinder
This is Australian criminal Mark “Chopper” Read, who refused to even go on a liver transplant list, saying, “I’m 55 years old. I’m not going to put my name down against some 10-year-old kid.”
by Algrinder
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That ten year old kid’s name? Adolf Hitler.
Eric Bana played him in a movie!!
Transplant committees already consider those factors bud.
Sounds like he just wanted to die.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221073/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221073/) [https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/60022635](https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/60022635)
>**He needed a transplant due to hepatitis C and later liver cancer but he chose not to register for one at all, on ethical grounds**
>1.Read spent the first five years of his life in a children’s home, and was made a ward of the state by the age of 14
>Read says he was certified mentally insane three times – at ages 15, 19 and 23, and that he was given “60 serves of shock treatment in six months”.
>2. Read earned his reputation as a hard man first by ripping off drug dealers in Melbourne, then making his living kidnapping and torturing members of the criminal underworld
>3. Read spent only 13 months outside prison between the ages of 20 and 38
>He served time after being convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping, arson, impersonating a police officer, assault and attempted murder. He was sentenced to 13 years in jail for attempting to kidnap a County Court judge at gunpoint.
>4. In the late 1970s, Read had a fellow prisoner cut his ears off, in order to get out of Pentridge Prison’s H division
>5. Read was already known as ‘Chopper’ – the name came from the cartoon bulldog in the show Yakky Doodle
>**6. Read lost several feet of intestines after being stabbed by fellow inmates and longtime friends Jimmy Loughnan and Ned Clonan**
>7. In his books Read claims to have been involved in the killing of 19 people and the attempted murder of 11 others
>He has recently downgraded this to “about four or seven”. He has also said he would “never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn”.
>8. Read has sold more than 500,000 copies of his ‘Chopper’ books and has also written a ‘kids’ book for adults’ called Hooky the Cripple
>9. He’s also recorded a hip hop album, Interview With a Madman
>10. Eric Bana launched his Hollywood career after playing Read in the 2000 film Chopper
>11. Read contracted Hepatitis C during his time in prison, he says through using a blood-stained shaver
>12. In 2009 he revealed he needed a liver transplant, but would not accept one if offered
>”I’m not going to ask for a liver transplant, it’s not fair. I’m 55 years old; I’m not going to put my name down against some 10-year-old kid.”
>13. In September 2013, Read was admitted to hospital and then transferred to palliative care. Read died on October 9, 2013
[ABC](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-09/13-things-you-may-not-know-about-mark-27chopper27-read/4991540)
I dont even understand the title, even with the translation.
He was an utter wastrel – a half witted bully. Too thick to deserve a transplant if we’re honest. World is better off without that oxygen thief.
Yeah I don’t think your organs can turn you into a criminal. This guy was just a piece of shit.
Here no cash
if it aint broke dont fix it. If its broke “fvck it”
He was quite a mixed up fellow… Not a particularly well known humanitarian. Could have quite possibly destroyed quite a few livers during attacks.
I don’t think they get the same liver
Yeah, I don’t think that taking some 10-year-old kid’s liver was ever on the list. The only liver this dude was gonna get was the liver of an alcoholic, that got dropped out of the ambulance and stood in the sun for half a day.
“Now look what you’ve done…your mums upset! “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_%22Chopper%22_Read
>In an April 2013 interview with the New York Times, Read said “Look, honestly, I haven’t killed that many people, probably about four or seven, depending on how you look at it”.
That’s probably one of the most Australian things I’ve heard for a while.
What’s the movie made about him called.. CHOPPER.
Eric Bana does a incredible job.
What if he didn’t want his DNA out there to be attached to certain unsolved crimes lol
[https://youtu.be/unkIVvjZc9Y?si=Aw1fwUqS9AHQQF8A](https://youtu.be/unkIVvjZc9Y?si=Aw1fwUqS9AHQQF8A)
Harden up Michale!
Bit early for king fu, isn’t it Jim?
I know two people who have kidney failure, both married with 3 and 4 kids, plenty of family (Asian families in my area are big families) the refuse to ask family for a kidney and are on the list. That to me is beyond wild
Agree 100% 66m had 61 good years health wise. Rectal and kidney cancer, removed one kidney other is failing…. No way any transplant from relative or another donor.
Harden the fuck up
“Like, I’m a bad-guy, but I’m not a BAD guy..”
No liver here
Watched the film again the other day, pretty different through now 44 eyes apposed to 22 year old eyes.
Sadly and I don’t know if the medical technology was around that time but an adult sized donor liver can be split so that a child and adult recepient receives parts of same donor liver!
“ a single adult liver is divided into two grafts:
* Smaller portion → pediatric recipient
* Larger portion → adult recipient
This allows one donor to help two patients, improving organ utilization.”
One of the first times drinking in my life was at a rural pub in Tassie. Older friend pointed out chopper at the bar, who noticed us looking at him. He wiggled his eyebrows at us and had a laugh. Later, I found out why my friend pointed him out and wondered how you can be involved in so many shenanigans and still be at the pub making faces at teenagers.
The movie based on him is so wild man, scene where he gets stabbed and just acts as though nothing is happening.
Adults were once 10-year-old kids, too.
How tf is it 2026 and we still can’t vat-grow organs
What?
Whoa. Chopper was a hard man and a brutal gangster, but that’s a righteous move. He didn’t want to rob a kid of their chance at a good life just to he could live another 10-20 years in mostly poor health. Respect.