{"id":2659,"date":"2004-10-19T21:58:17","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T01:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/10\/19\/another-one-bites-the-dust\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T21:58:17","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T01:58:17","slug":"another-one-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/10\/19\/another-one-bites-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Another One Bites the Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4018'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/veerappan.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"281\" align=\"left\">BANGALORE,<br \/>\n        India &#8212; Police have shot dead India&#8217;s most wanted bandit, Koose Muniswamy<br \/>\n        Veerappan, accused of chopping up many of the more than 100<br \/>\n          people he killed, officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>        <em>Every once in a while, there come along Very Bad Men with enough<br \/>\n        verve and style that when they are eventually removed from the scene<br \/>\n        by the forces of<br \/>\n        order, as they invariably are, one feels a twinge of regret, if only<br \/>\n        for the impoverishment of the news stream their passing represents.<\/p>\n<p>        We place in this category <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idi_Amin\">Idi<br \/>\n        Amin Dada<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.syr.edu\/%7Eaffellem\/\">Haille<br \/>\n        Selassie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimelibrary.com\/americana\/dillinger\/dillingermain.htm\">John<br \/>\n        Dillinge<\/a>r and<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giles.34sp.com\/biographies\/papadoc.htm\">Papa Doc<br \/>\n        Duvalier &amp; Son<\/a>.&nbsp;It looks like we need to add this<br \/>\n        guy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n        The bandit, who was in his 50s, sported a long twirling moustache, wore<br \/>\n          military camouflage, and had bloodshot eyes. He was dubbed the &quot;Jungle<br \/>\n          Cat&quot; for his deep knowledge of the forests and his ability to<br \/>\n        imitate wild animal sounds.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Hey, he sounds exactly like the Dowbrigade! We are<br \/>\n        well-known for our mongoose and wombat imitations&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n        Indian media reports said he chopped rivals into pieces before throwing<br \/>\n          them into rivers, killed policemen as they slept, and once beheaded<br \/>\n      a senior forest official.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Well, maybe not EXACTLY like the Dowbrigade&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2004\/10\/19\/indian_police_kill_notorious_bandit\/\">Boston<br \/>\n          Globe (Reuters)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGALORE, India &#8212; Police have shot dead India&#8217;s most wanted bandit, Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, accused of chopping up many of the more than 100 people he killed, officials said yesterday. Every once in a while, there come along Very Bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/10\/19\/another-one-bites-the-dust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}