Washington Post - February 17, 2006
The Ugly Face of Crime
By Richard Morin
"I'm too ugly to get a job." -- Daniel Gallagher, a Miami bank robber, after police captured him in 2003
The hapless Mr. Gallagher may have been ugly, but he was also wise.
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These economists found that the long-term consequences of being young and ugly were small but consistent. Cute guys were uniformly less likely than averages would indicate to have committed seven crimes including burglary and selling drugs, while the unhandsome were consistently more likely to have broken the law.
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I have absolutely no idea if there's even a juvenile rat's ass worth of credibility to this but it did have the salutary effect of making me laugh for almost five minutes straight.
I'm now imagining a film in the 1950's,"Rebel Without A Cause" genre of pulpy goodness.
Worried Dad: "What's wrong with you Johnny? Why can't you just behave and be a fine, upstanding young citizen like your football, debating and chess team captain brother Bradley?"
Johnny: Because I'm UGLY dad! I'm UGLY! And ain't nothin or no one gonna change that!
And hey, wasn't the excuse Shakespeare's Richard the Third offered for his misdeeds his being brought into the world (from memory now) "mishappen and half formed"?
.d.
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