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CuriousIdent Not So Old
Great Old One Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Total posts: 825 Location: Warwickshire, England. Age: 34 Gender: Male |
 Posted: 19-11-2009 15:58 Post subject: |
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| escargot1 wrote: | Asked a couple of parents of primary school age kids today if they'd heard about him, and they both said thair kids had been formally warned - by two different schools - and one had a letter home. 
I've asked for the letter so I may be able to scan it & show it on here. Fingers crossed.  |
That would certainly be interesting to see, Escargot. |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17896 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 19-11-2009 17:09 Post subject: |
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Rifling house for newspaper as we speak.  |
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| pornosonic1975 Yeti Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Total posts: 56 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-11-2009 06:18 Post subject: I met Purple Acky!!! |
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Growing up in Wigan in the 80's/90's meant that you would regularly come into contact with Purple Acky, increasingly so as he became more well known in his usual haunt of St Helens. In about 1991/2, he approached my mate one friday night around Wigan, taking a fancy to my mate Ian, trying to feel his muscles. He managed to get away after a chase through Wigan town centre!
A few years later, he approached another mate at about 2am in his street which was on a housing estate in Marus Bridge, Wigan and my mate being rather naive, entertained him by doing squat thrusts, star jumps and showing his muscles!
About ten years ago, I was in the car park of Lloyds TSB in Pemberton, Wigan in the daytime and was approached by him! He was about twenty feet away and beckoned me to come and have a chat with him but I managed to get into my car, lock the doors and drive away. I can vouch for the fact that he is MASSIVE and rather scary. Far scarier looking than his released picture.
My brother was even the victim of him. A few years ago, some cops came round to our house to take a statement as my brothers details (he's was a rugby player) were found in his notebook along with all his measurements, car registration, address and loads of other things.
In his defence, apart from being very intimidating he has never actually tried to bum anyone as far as I know and is just apparently interested in what is described above really. As far as I know, he has never tried to hurt anyone.
Then again, would YOU tell anyone if you got bummed by Purple Acky?! |
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| CuriousIdent Not So Old
Great Old One Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Total posts: 825 Location: Warwickshire, England. Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 23-11-2009 14:03 Post subject: |
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Really sensitive use of the word 'bummed' there, but I do understand what you mean.
from all of the reports generally referred to he he doesn't seem to actually be attempting physical harm, here. But the intimidation and obsessive tracking of people is definitely very threatening, premeditated and aggressive. |
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| theyithian Keeping the British end up
Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Total posts: 11704 Location: Vermilion Sands Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-11-2009 14:47 Post subject: |
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| I though 'bummed' chimed rather nicely with the username "Pornosonic1975" and the fact that Mr Aki was the the stuff of playground rumours. |
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| CuriousIdent Not So Old
Great Old One Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Total posts: 825 Location: Warwickshire, England. Age: 34 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 23-11-2009 15:35 Post subject: |
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| theyithian wrote: | | I though 'bummed' chimed rather nicely with the username "Pornosonic1975" and the fact that Mr Aki was the the stuff of playground rumours. |
Well, yeah, I suppose.
What I find more interesting here though, as posted earlier, is that the UL or 'Purple Aki' was known down here in Warwickshire in the 80s. As far as I know Aki himself was never active down here. It's interesting to see just how far the UL of a REAL very disturbing character can travel.
Anybody else recall this as an Urban Legend from the 80s/90s outside of the North-west of England? |
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| theyithian Keeping the British end up
Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Total posts: 11704 Location: Vermilion Sands Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-11-2009 15:46 Post subject: |
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It's pretty amazing, I suppose.
But then, on the other hand, kids, being kids, tell tall-tale to other kids. You would have to suppose that the vast majority of those hearing and telling the stories had no direct experience of homo purpura, or even anyone else who did. However, all it would take is a few movers from school to school, area to area, and it's all quite explicable. I think the 'realness' of the legend would have had the effect of increasing the number of first-hand encounters (which would be both geographically and temporally disparate) from which the story could spread. Were the purple predator the figment of an imagination or a misapprehension, the story would have died. Mr Aki, on the contrary kept generating numerous first instances over a number of years.
What I would like to know is whether Aki himself realised or even now realises he has become a bogeyman. |
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| Posted: 23-11-2009 15:51 Post subject: |
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| theyithian wrote: |
What I would like to know is whether Aki himself realised or even now realises he has become a bogeyman. |
From the ever-reliable Wikipedia:
| Quote: | | During the court case Arobieke made an apology to his victims and admitted that he was "infamous, notorious, everything from a bogeyman to whatever". |
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| theyithian Keeping the British end up
Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Total posts: 11704 Location: Vermilion Sands Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 23-11-2009 16:00 Post subject: |
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| Using the word 'whatever' in an apology doesn't sound massively heartfelt now, does it? |
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| drjbrennan Collector Joined: 14 Aug 2001 Total posts: 316 Gender: Unknown |
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| Spudrick68 Great Old One Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1111 Location: sunny Morecambe Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-04-2010 12:57 Post subject: |
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| Sound a bit 'Spring Heeled Jack"ish if you ask me. |
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| rjmrjmrjm Professional Surrealist
Constipated-Philosopher Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Total posts: 1465 Location: Behind your eyes... Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 25-06-2010 09:00 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Notorious Liverpool man jailed for touching boy’s muscles
Jun 25 2010 by Our Correspondent, Liverpool Echo
A NOTORIOUS Liverpool man with a fetish for feeling teenage boys’ muscles was was labelled a “sexual predator” by a judge as he was jailed yesterday.
Akinwale Arobieke, 48, was locked up for two-and-a-half years after a jury found him guilty of touching the calf and thigh muscles of a 16-year-old boy in Llandudno, north Wales.
The offence, in November last year, was a breach of a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO) banning him from touching boys’ muscles, made after a raft of previous offences in Merseyside.
Yesterday the jury found him guilty, by an 11-to-one majority verdict, at the end of a four-day trial at Caernarfon crown court.
He was also banned for an unlimited period from setting foot in Llandudno.
Arobieke claimed the incident never happened and said the boy must have made it up “for fun” after reading internet stories about him, including a Wikipedia page.
He also said he was “vulnerable” to baseless allegations because of the order against him.
Arobieke, who is 6ft 5in, said he would not have acted in such a way because he knew the Llandudno street was covered by many CCTV cameras.
He told the jury: “I stand out.”
But Judge Nic Parry told him: “You are a plausible individual, but the jury has not been fooled by you.”
He said Arobieke had been a “sexual predator” on many occasions.
Judge Parry said for a quarter of a century Arobieke had a history of assault, dishonesty and public order offences.
Karl Scholz, prosecuting, revealed he had more than 40 convictions, including eight for actual bodily harm, seven for assaulting police, six for threatening behaviour and one for a threat to kill.
Urging the judge not to ban him from Llandudno, Brigid Baillie, defending, said he had to tell police whenever he left Liverpool anyway because of the SOPO.
She said he was in care from six months old and once lived in a Barnardos home in Llandudno.
But Judge Parry said Arobieke, of Hornby Road, Walton, had added to the trauma of young men.
He added: “The court has long recognised the need to protect the public from sexual harm caused by you.”
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news//2010/06/25/notorious-liverpool-man-jailed-for-touching-boy-s-muscles-100252-26722821/ |
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| Heckler20 The Sockpuppet of
Cthulhu's Prodigal Son Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Total posts: 4702 Location: In the Nostril of The Crawling Chaos Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 25-06-2010 11:12 Post subject: |
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| rjmrjmrjm wrote: |
Karl Scholz, prosecuting, revealed he had more than 40 convictions, including eight for actual bodily harm, seven for assaulting police, six for threatening behaviour and one for a threat to kill. |
 So clearly there is real reason to be wary. |
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| BlackRiverFalls I wear a fez now.
Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Total posts: 8716 Location: The Attic of Blinky Lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 26-06-2010 12:02 Post subject: |
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| i didn;t realise you could have that many convictions for ABH and assaulting police and still be on the streets? |
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| Spudrick68 Great Old One Joined: 08 Jun 2008 Total posts: 1111 Location: sunny Morecambe Age: 45 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 27-06-2010 01:57 Post subject: |
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| When i was a kid growing up in the Preston area, us kids talked of a local pervert who hung around the woods near the park. His name was 'Dooley'. But I don't recall anyone ever seeing him. |
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