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Short Story Of Clyde Barrow
Have you ever heard of a couple traveling the country in stolen cars doing nothing more than robbing banks and murdering those that stand in their love triangle of crime and each other? If you have it’s only because back during our country’s darkest economic time, the Depression, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker joined forces and refused to be stuck broke in a country without jobs to pick the easy, immoral way of survival, crime. I suppose crime is one way to leave an impression, especially on paper locked away in the files of the FBI’s “Most Wanted” cabinets. As if locking it away would suppress the curiosity of a nation and the legend it would become…but you can’t keep this tale locked up. With every lasting story there’s always a beginning …show more content…
Unlike his future companion, he dropped out of school after 5th grade. Now you know who the brawn of the duo was. Later moving to West Dallas he began his crime life selling stolen turkeys. From turkeys to safecracking to auto theft, Clyde was just warming up for Bonnie. Jail and its consequences never really sunk in despite his multiple times being arrested. But with his deceiving tales, he always managed to weasel himself out of it. Once, Clyde was arrested with two other of his accomplices. He told the sheriff that he was hitchhiking and had no idea of whom or what the men that picked him were doing. They let him go. Who said criminals were loyal? After being in jail so many times wouldn’t you do anything to not go back? Though he escaped yet another time, little does he know the story gets old, the rope gets thinner and thinner, and time and the law would catch …show more content…
This car contained multiple guns (all shapes and sizes) and tons of ammunition (the gang’s personal arsenal) and their new owners, Bonnie and Clyde. This was literally the end of the road as the car headed right into the lap of the law. Down the road, an ambush of policeman awaited them. One of the cops walked in the center of the road, the car slowed to a stop and just as the beginning began, it all ended with a Bang! There was 167 shots fired into the car and the infamous crime duo died on the spot. Only in their early twenties, the duo insignificant in size Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow would breathe their last that day, unable to run

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