Friday, November 12, 2021
Elmer McCurdy
Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American bank and train robber who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a Katy Train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1960s. After changing ownership several times, McCurdy's remains eventually wound up at The Pike amusement zone in Long Beach, California where they were discovered by a film crew of The Six Million Dollar Man and positively identified in December 1976.
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Elmer wasn't too bright, was he?
ReplyDeleteI. Laughed. Until. I. Couldn't. See.
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That was hilarious!
I laughed so hard, I stopped reading several times until I regained some semblance of sanity.
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* hanging in the Laff In The Dark Funhouse in 1976
* nose and ears crumbled away during a breeze, 'too gruesome to display'
* mortician kept him out back, refused to bury him until somebody paid the bill
* US Army trained him to use nitroglycerin, then chose burglaries requiring explosives, then bungled every burglary, destroying cash and melting silver to the safes
* carnival brothers impersonating his long-lost relatives
* drunk to a stupor pretty much every day of his short sweet life
* discovered by the film-crew of Six Million Dollar Man...
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...but I completely lost it at:
* removed his jaw and discovered a 1924 penny.
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[ hahaha tears hahaha ]