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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 |
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| Heckler20 wrote: | | 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. |
Ouch! Yes. Annoyingly the kind of string of convictions which do not result in a long term jail sentence. But it's quite understandable that people have found the guy quite so menacing.
I mentioned this thread to my girlfriend again, the other day. She's from Merseyside as I've probably mentioned previously. It still really bothers her. For an entire generation of kids this guy really WAS a Freddy Kruger-esque figure of fear. |
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| lordmongrove Great Old One Joined: 30 May 2009 Total posts: 865 Location: Exeter Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-07-2010 19:43 Post subject: |
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| There was a bloke in Exeter who drank so much his skin turned maroon. He was called Purple Andy. |
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| mr_macabre Yeti Joined: 03 Dec 2009 Total posts: 49 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 22-10-2010 15:16 Post subject: |
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Dunno if this link will work but a band called The Suzuki Method have just released an EP and one of the songs is called "Purple Aki"!
Wonder if he'll get any royalties...?
http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=708 |
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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: 16-09-2011 12:47 Post subject: |
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| I wonder if it was inspired by the same guy? |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-09-2011 20:32 Post subject: |
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"BIG and open and polished to a Salford shine"
It's what he would have wanted.
Can't wait to see the video!  |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
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| kmossel Give in
Yeti Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Total posts: 94 Location: San Francisco Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-09-2013 20:14 Post subject: |
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Now maybe I have lived in San Francisco for too long, but why doesn't he just find a nice muscular boyfriend whom he can touch all he wants?
Perhaps I'm being naive, as the same could be said for a lot of criminal fetishists. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-09-2013 20:49 Post subject: |
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Aki Unanimously Cleared of Touching Charges!
The sensible suggestion he might care to settle down with a like-minded chum might be slightly problematic, since Aki is now 52 and his preferred type about 16. |
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| liveinabin1 Great Old One Joined: 19 Oct 2001 Total posts: 2140 Location: insert witty comment here Gender: Female |
| Posted: 14-09-2013 12:04 Post subject: |
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What I don't understand is how he became a bogey man at my school in the west country.
It is so interesting to see how these myths come about but have a basis in reality. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-09-2013 12:44 Post subject: |
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According to this Lancashire Evening Post story from 2007,it is possible to download Purple Aki from the internet!
Discussion of the article on this page gives the curious information that the Candyman story of Liverpool-born Clive Barker, may well have been inspired by tales of Aki.
Barker's original story, The Forbidden dates from 1978, however, at which date Aki would have been just 17 himself. The manslaughter case which brought Aki to public notice was eight years later.
It is the very early years of the Aki legend which interest me most. A boy was certainly electrocuted while fleeing something. To what extent was this Akinwale, though? To what extent might it already have been a legend?  |
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