I guess that explains why it's on HN. It still doesn't explain the author's glorification of his incompetence...<p>From the bottom of page 4:
"It would have been reasonable to assume that a man with Tackmann’s criminal smarts would be on a Greyhound bus to Virginia or Florida or anywhere across state lines to get out of New York. But he went to Spanish Harlem."<p>It seems like the entire article is about this criminal genius who is so insanely good at being a criminal, he actually appears to be a _bad_ criminal. Why not just make the leap to the conclusion that he simply sucks at being a criminal?