A bank robber named “Pretty Boy” Floyd was known for destroying mortgage papers during heists, freeing hundreds of people from property debt.

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    1. Fetlocks_Glistening on

      I mean rugged and manly in a heroic communist farmer sort of way, but a tad rough-hewn for pretty boy?

    2. Longjumping-Ask-1743 on

      If you go to Union Station in Kansas City, you can see the bullet holes in the outside of the building where Floyd and his gang shot and killed 3 FBI agents trying to free a friend of their’s that had been transported by train (unfortunately they shot him too) .

    3. On the other hand, it was probably difficult for the widows of the 10 men he killed to make their own mortgage payments.

    4. cupacupacupacupacup on

      Pretty Boy Floyd — Woody Guthrie

      If you’ll gather ’round me, children,
      A story I will tell
      ‘Bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an outlaw,
      Oklahoma knew him well.
      It was in the town of Shawnee,
      A Saturday afternoon,
      His wife beside him in his wagon
      As into town they rode.

      There a deputy sheriff approached him
      In a manner rather rude,
      Vulgar words of anger,
      An’ his wife she overheard.
      Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain,
      And the deputy grabbed his gun;
      In the fight that followed
      He laid that deputy down.

      Then he took to the trees and timber
      Along the river shore,
      Hiding on the river bottom
      And he never come back no more.
      Yes, he took to the trees and timber
      To live a life of shame;
      Every crime in Oklahoma
      Was added to his name.

      But a many a starvin’ farmer
      The same old story told
      How the outlaw paid their mortgage
      And saved their little homes.
      Others tell you ’bout a stranger
      That come to beg a meal,
      Underneath his napkin
      Left a thousand-dollar bill.

      It was in Oklahoma City,
      It was on a Christmas Day,
      There was a whole car load of groceries
      Come with a note to say:
      Well, you say that I’m an outlaw,
      You say that I’m a thief.
      Here’s a Christmas dinner
      For the families on relief.”

      Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
      I’ve seen lots of funny men;
      Some will rob you with a six-gun,
      And some with a fountain pen.
      And as through your life you travel,
      Yes, as through your life you roam,
      You won’t never see an outlaw
      Drive a family from their home.

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