Posted on 05/06/2016 8:19:35 PM PDT by Beowulf9
It is as iconic an image from the criminal underworld as the Tommy gun, or the getaway car, a grim last act for the unfortunate soul whose life is about to end in a new pair of footwear.
Cement shoes.
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Some albums, like fragrances—blubells, for example, remind me of Texas—trigger memories for me from way back.
‘Can’t Buy A Thrill’, ‘Exile On Main Street’, ‘Tres Hombres’, ‘Songs From The Wood’, the Who.
Especially when I’m drowning
Here they cut you up, and take you out in a fishing boat and feed you to the sharks.
Didn’t Trump have mob connections? I think I saw that in a tabloid. After all, they are undisputed fact.
Hey, youse...sit still...it’ll set up in anudder five hours.
Quikcrete 5000 psi high early strength...
I wonder if they also found the fishes with whom he slept.
Probably dead already. The duct tape around his head is a pretty good clue on that. And, that is possibly the only way to keep the feet still while the concert sets.
The only reason he came up is that the bucket was way too small. 5 gallon bucket is just not enough weight. Need a washtub, 20 gallons or so. Actually, one of the problems is that there should be about 200 lbs of concrete and the body itself is another 200 or so. That is a lot of weight to throw over the side of a boat.
Bruce Willis got the cement shoes treatment from Dustin Hoffman (as Dutch Schultz) in a gangster movie the name of which I cannot recall.
Billy Bathgate. It was in the article.
Concrete shoes
Cyanide, TNT!
Done dirt cheap!
Contracts, neck ties
High voltage!
Done dirt cheap!
My Wife (The Who)
Winner!
Scotty called them concrete galoshes.
I remember a scene from a book I read years ago, in which a guy is dropped into the East River with cement shoes, but the killers put a scuba tank on the victim and taped the mouthpiece in, so the victim would have an hour or so to think things over.
I imagine he was already dead. If you wanted to drown someone, there are plenty of ways to weight a body that don’t involve getting your victim to hold still for hours on end. And if you want to kill someone, there are plenty of faster and easier ways to do it. Cement shoes are just a disposal technique.
No...he was about 5’8”
at 6’3” I am 75” tall.
“Didn’t Trump have mob connections? I think I saw that in a tabloid.”.........
Perhaps you read it on the internet.
>>That’s gotta be one of the most horrible ways to die.<<
“Vlad the Impaler would take issue with that.”
So would Joan of Arc.
If you built a building in NYC, you had contact with the mob. Knowingly, or not.
In NY, instead of “mob boss” they are called “union leaders.”
“That is a lot of weight to throw over the side of a boat.”
And you know this - how? Remind me never to provoke you!
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