Talk:Curtis Sliwa
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I first heard about the Guardian Angels in the early 1980's. I used to collect Blackbelt Magazine and have some with articles about Sliwa and the Guardian Angels, and one with Mary Sliwa on the cover in beret demonstrating a selfdefense takedown.
I am glad to know they are still a strong and growing organization.
This guy is full of crap. While the Guardian Angels have done some local good, Silwa has become an even bigger blowhard since the '80s. Typical.
Okay, wasn't his story kind of included in one of the Law and Order episodes?Themalau 05:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Gambino
The Gambino section is not particularly clear. At first reading, one would assume the trials took place not longer after the shooting in 1992. However given the fact it wasn't until 2005 that a mistrial occured, obviously thisw as not the case. I presume the evidence was sufficient for a trial only in 2004 or so but this isn't clear fromt his article Nil Einne 11:09, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] No mention of former wife?
Lisa Sliwa was famous in her own right, it seems like an odd omission.InsultComicDog 21:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Staged kidnapping event
Didn't Curtis Sliwa stage a kidnapping event where his sister was kidnapped? Later it turned out it was just staged to get publicity. Why has this been long removed from the article?
"Under questioning, Sliwa, 51, was forced to admit that over the years he had staged a number of publicity stunts to get media attention for the Guardian Angels, founded in the late 1970s while the Brooklyn Prep High School dropout was working as a night manager at a Bronx McDonald's.
He said he once had his older sister pose as a mugging victim whose purse was returned to her by a Guardian Angel - $300 still inside. He claimed he'd been kidnapped and abandoned in a Jones Beach parking lot by a transit cop - a hoax he said he hoped would stop police from harassing his subway security patrol.
"It was the dumbest thing I ever did in my life," Sliwa said.
Sliwa also claimed that as he lay bleeding a cop mocked him, saying "Look at Superman now."
Source:www.guardianangels.org/pdf/1176.pdf --24.193.80.232 05:33, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
- You'll also find mention of that in a recent new york times article about him. Since it's the sort of assertion about a living person that we would need to be extra careful about (to avoid libel), we would want really good, neutral sources though. See WP:SPS and Wikipedia:BLP#Reliable_sources before adding it. - Owlmonkey (talk) 01:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Connected to Opie and Anthony?
| “ | ...as well as comedy bit consultant for the Opie and Anthony show on CBS Radio as well as XM Satellite Radio | ” |
Where's the citation for this? This is dubious to me as O and A are competitors with Sliwa. patsw (talk) 02:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
