rip peter scott, cat burglar

[bcbm]

Peter Scott, who has died aged 82, was a highly accomplished cat burglar, and as Britain’s most prolific plunderer of the great and good took particular pains to select his victims from the ranks of aristocrats, film stars and even royalty.


“The people I burgled got rich by greed and skulduggery. They indulged in the mechanics of ostentation — they deserved me and I deserved them. If I rob Ivana Trump, it is just a meeting of two different kinds of degeneracy on a dark rooftop.”


He ended up broke, reflecting ruefully that “I gave all my money to head waiters and tarts”. Declared bankrupt, owing creditors £440,000, he lived on benefits of £60 a week in a council flat in Islington.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9949054/Peter-Scott.html

[bcbm]

if anyone can find his book online for less than ten bucks i will give you a cookie

[Os Cangaceiros]

"If I rob Ivana Trump, it is just a meeting of two different kinds of degeneracy on a dark rooftop.”

:lol:

[Art Vandelay]

This guy seems awesome; lumpen cred.