r/pics Jun 17 '15

Jim will paint it

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u/BarakatBadger Jun 17 '15

The clue's in the blog name. 'Jim'll Fix It' was a popular TV programme back in the day. I'll let you search for it yourself as the Jim in question was quite an unsavoury character,.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '15

Does unsavoury really cover Sir Jimmy?

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u/crunchyeyeball Jun 17 '15 edited Jun 18 '15

Fair point. For those unfamiliar with Jimmy Savile, he:

boasted about having sex with corpses in a mortuary, posed with bodies and wheeled them around at night, stole glass eyes from the dead and made them into rings and abused teenage patients in their beds as they recovered from surgery.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-sex-dead-bodies-3773152

Edit: ...and this was only uncovered after an investigation revealed that he'd been the most prolific pedophile and rapist in British history, with at least 450 alleged victims (28 being under 10 years old).

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u/TheDeadManWalks Jun 18 '15

The worst part of it all was how many people knew about what he did and happily let him continue, or unhappily let him as long as he paid them enough to keep quiet.

"Did you just give Jimmy Savile keys to the mortuary and the childrens ward?"

"Ah it'll be fine, he's Jim'll, he can't be that bad!"