Unmasking Chopper Read: Psychopath or Master Showman?

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  @redtobertshateshandles · 2 months ago (edited)

  &quot; I knew him professionally, not socially.&quot; 😂😂😂<br>Thanks Doc. 😂😂

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  @Spudcore · 2 months ago

  He wasn&apos;t called Chopper because he chopped off his ears, he already had that nickname long before that. We&apos;re not off to a very good start here.

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  @thespartan8476 · 1 month ago

  Chopper Read did not get his nickname from cutting off his ears. He already had the name years earlier, as a kid, long before prison and long before the ear‑slicing incident.<br>⚔ The real origin of “Chopper”<br>Multiple independent sources confirm the same thing:<br><br>The nickname came from a cartoon bulldog named Chopper in the Hanna‑Barbera show Yakky Doodle.<br><br>Read was called “Chopper” in childhood, well before his criminal career.<br><br>The ear‑cutting happened later, in Pentridge’s H‑Division, and had nothing to do with the nickname. <br><br>Even The Telegraph — which often repeats the myth — ultimately admits the same:<br>he later confessed the nickname actually came from a childhood cartoon.

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  @sandwichbreath0 · 2 weeks ago

  His last(?) autobiography had a lot of great dry humour in it. I always remember one chapter where he was talking about as a younger man being asked by a man for directions who was actually a Painter and Docker that kidnapped him and drove him out to the bush to kill him -- where Chopper dryly remarked that, for a bloke who needed a map/directions earlier, he was able to find their way in the brush back to the planned kill site just fine 😂

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  @shannonpatrick77 · 2 weeks ago

  A man like Chopper is a bit of it all.

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  @The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door · 2 months ago (edited)

  I met him a few times he seemed like a really nice person. I met socially through people I knew at the time he was well spoken, well behaved and I didn’t pick up any bad vibes from him.

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• KR

  @kristenlouiseissa · 2 months ago

  I like the fact he got rid of scum bags except that one that was the wrong house 😮

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• BL

  @Blackheathenly · 2 months ago

  He can be both.

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• LI

  @lindadenneypu6315 · 2 months ago

  My uncle did short a short stint with him a d he said he was &nbsp;a good bloke

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  @PeterMoore350 · 7 days ago

  I met him once at a pub in Collingwood. <br>Id watched Collingwood at Victoria Park back when they still played there but i decided to have a beer and wait for the queue to die down at the train station and have a couple of beers. <br>Eventually it got quiet and i was waiting for the barmaid and he was right next to me and i just said “how are ya goin” general chit chat and he asked me what i was drinking and bought me one. <br><br>I didnt know who he was. When i finished i went up to the bar to return the favour plus buy myself one but he politely, well you know, refused &nbsp;and bought me another one. <br>I thanked him when id finished and caught the train home. <br><br>Didn’t find out who he was until years later but once you’ve heard his laugh you never forget it and yep it was him.

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  @billyshane3804 · 2 months ago

  Known by some fellow prisoners as &quot;Copper Read&quot; , police informer &amp; friend of corrections officers.

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  @Holymolyrolls · 2 months ago

  He wasn’t called chopper because of his ears, he was named that after a cartoon character…I’m now suss this guy even met him

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