Bum Farto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bum_Farto

by jrflowers • 2 years ago

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Nursie• 2 years ago

Pretty sure Bum Farto was my player name in a bunch of 90s games.

Also possible Star Wars character.

Is this just an experiment to gauge the puerility of HN upvoters? Because you got me.

aaronbrethorst• 2 years ago

Glup Shitto's second cousin.

metadat2• 2 years ago

How could the US Government justify declaring Bum Farto dead when he only would have been in his mid 60's?

The whole story reeks of good-old-boys-club dimensions from beginning to end. He had no education, and lived a sketchily and inexplicably ostentatious life. Outcome: Drug dealer.

whall62• 2 years ago

This has to be AI generated

metadat2• 2 years ago

@whall6: Can you clarify? Not sure I follow.

Bum Farto was born in 1919, declared dead in absentia in 1986, making him 67 years old.

What judge lets high profile drug dealers go home to await sentencing?

flysand7• 2 years ago

Well it's been 10 years since he went missing. When people go missing for a long time they are declared legally dead, regardless of their age

metrognome• 2 years ago

According to the article, he disappeared in 1976 (48 years ago). Apologies for the pedantry.

bityard3• 2 years ago

so that his wife could collect his pension and insurance policies, worth about $5,000 and $2,000 respectively

swiftcoder• 2 years ago

Even in '86 dollars, that's not a whole lot of inheritance

whall62• 2 years ago

Look Mom “Bum Farto” is on the front page of Hacker News! The world is healing

ein0p• 2 years ago

Someone needs to post Wikipedia article on Dick Trickle as well.

bloat• 2 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Bush

akira2501• 2 years ago

The shopkeeper said the t-shirts were purchased in large numbers, and he reported that his buyers were "probably kids who like to do a lot of coke", as well as Charles Addams.

There was a much better way to phrase that.

"Where is Bum Farto?” It clings to T-shirts sold by Taylor-GIore a Key West novelty shop "I would say we sold 600 of them and we sent them all over the country” said storeowner Rob Glore Purchasers include cartoonist Charles Addams a lawyers’ softball team in Washington and composer Jerome Weidman Glore said the store began selling the white shirts with "El Jefe” on the front in big red letters and "Where Is Bum Farto?” on the back in March and was sold out by August Another 100 shirts are on ' order he said and there’s a waiting list of about 20 “I’ve been out all fall long”

That's far more informative and less of a joke at Charles' expense.

bityard3• 2 years ago

Yes, but the first is far funnier and therefore better.

bityard3• 2 years ago

Man, this really sounds like the plot to a Cohen Brothers movie.

Or maybe it's just in Florida. (Checks) Yeah, okay, Florida.

trhway• 2 years ago

The Civil Service Board, which was headed by Fire Chief Farto's nephew
He was brought to county jail with fellow narcotics criminal Manny Jones, the city attorney and son of the police chief.

small town vibes.

netsharc• 2 years ago

Looks like someone's a Regulation Listener...

dasv• 2 years ago

516 people in Spain with Farto as first surname, 485 as second surname. None with both. Quite rare. You can check distribution out yourself in a map with this neat tool from the Spanish Statistics Institute https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml

As an aside, I spent some days last week around that zone and found out about the existence of the surname Pis, which has a similar distribution and rarity, and is even more unfortunate since it means "pee" in Spanish. At least Farto is only funny in English.

Since in Spain you get your first surname from your father's first surname and your second from your mother's first that sometimes also leads to unintended hilarity in names (example, real person, Luz Cuesta Mogollón, which roughly translates to "electricity costs a bunch"!)

Xen92• 2 years ago

I would have done the same. I think in general world has too much prison and too little kicking the convinct off, even though monitoring that they dont come back is a problem.

JSDevOps• 2 years ago

He was nicknamed Bum because he fetched the firefighters' coffee and shined their shoes

Yeah I am sure that's not why he got the nickname Bum, Farto!

Bum Farto

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