Mad Bomber quotes
” HAVE YOU NOTICED THE BOMBS IN YOUR CITY—IF YOU ARE WORRIED, I AM SORRY—AND ALSO IF ANYONE IS INJURED. BUT IT CANNOT BE HELPED—FOR JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED. I AM NOT WELL, AND FOR THIS I WILL MAKE THE CON EDISON SORRY—YES, THEY WILL REGRET THEIR DASTARDLY DEEDS—I WILL BRING THEM BEFORE THE BAR OF JUSTICE—PUBLIC OPINION WILL CONDEMN THEM—FOR BEWARE, I WILL PLACE MORE UNITS UNDER THEATER SEATS IN THE NEAR FUTURE. F.P. “
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When the injury date given in the bomber’s third letter matched George Metesky’s accident date, police knew they had their man. Accompanied by Waterbury police, four NYPD detectives arrived at Metesky’s home with a search warrant shortly before midnight on Monday, January 21, 1957. They asked him for a handwriting sample, and to make a letter G. He made the G, looked up and said, “I know why you fellows are here. You think I’m the Mad Bomber.” The detectives asked what “F.P.” stood for, and he responded, “F.P. stands for Fair Play.”
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Expected to live only a few weeks due to his advanced tuberculosis, Metesky had to be carried into the hospital. After a year and a half of treatment, his health had improved, and a newspaper article written fourteen years later described the 68-year-old Metesky as “vigorous and healthy looking”.
While he was at Matteawan, the Journal American hired a leading workers’ compensation attorney to appeal his disallowed claim for the 1931 injury, on the grounds that Metesky was mentally incompetent at the time and did not know his rights. The appeal was denied.[41]
Metesky was unresponsive to psychiatric therapy, but was a model inmate and caused no trouble. He was visited regularly by his sisters and occasionally by Dr. Brussel, to whom he would point out that he had deliberately built his bombs not to kill anyone.[10]
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Interviewed by a reporter upon his release, he said that he had forsworn violence, but reaffirmed his anger and resentment toward Consolidated Edison. He also stated that before he began planting his bombs,
“ I wrote 900 letters to the Mayor, to the Police Commissioner, to the newspapers, and I never even got a penny postcard back. Then I went to the newspapers to try to buy advertising space, but all of them turned me down. I was compelled to bring my story to the public. “ Metesky returned to his home in Waterbury, where he died twenty years later at the age of 90. [43]
Find the Wiki article on the Mad Bomber here.
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Man, oh, man, “F.P.” was inspiring. I bet Busiek based his famous Astro City one shot with that old guy- The Junk Man- on the Mad Bomber.
Sounds like something out of Detective Comics, The Shadow years.
Jeez, when you lift something from wikipedia at least give them a credit.
Yeah, Damian and Vahl are notorious stealers of content and ideas.
This was a parody, highlighting how real-life scenarios end up being reflected in comics. This pastiche is covered under fair use.
We’ll see about that. I’m giving Attorney-at-law a call.
What if Tony wrote the wiki article to begin with? Wiki is public and not for profit. There were hyperlinks in the post anyway…
Tony should have asked the original wiki author(s) for permission, or at least posted a clear hyperlink indicating from where he lifted the article. If the original author(s) have a problem with the way it’s currently posted, it’s still not worth going to court over, since wiki AND the Daily Skew are not-for-profit websites.