Talk:Nicholas van Hoogstraten

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[edit] UK housing market

Tha article states

As the housing market boomed in the early 1990s ...

Is that true?. The UK housing market actually crashed in the early 1990s, losing around 50% of its value.

Bob BScar23625 13:49, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Typical rich 'slum landlord' with jewish ancestory. Plenty of these about. 82.21.53.210 13:03, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

He went to a Jesuit school, not a Jewish one. I think you need to work out the difference before making anti-Semitic comments. Oh, and for good measure, he went to prison in 1968 for firebombing the home of a Jewish clergyman. --Mike 22:06, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Children's ages

I have removed the ages from Hoogstraten's children because these would require continual maintenance to keep up to date. However, their dates of birth (even just the years of birth) would not require such maintenance. If anyone has such dates, could someone add them? For the record, as at today the ages were given as:

Rhett (aged 21), Alex (aged 18), Britannia (aged 16), Richmond (aged 15) and Orrie (aged 9).

--A bit iffy 14:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly useful sources

I'm currently researching this lovely man and have found the following links which may be useful here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,365743,00.html

The writer seems to be doing his damnedest to describe a psychopath (in the strict clinical sense) short of saying it outright.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1974673_1,00.html

"Possible psychopath" starts to sound like a ludicrous understatement. That he is proud to be called such, that he enjoys any kind of fame, good or bad, is typical of this kind of personality.

http://www.steveplatt.net/tribune/trib980410.htm

I'm not sure this would be a valid source as such, but it looks like it contains a lot of revealing info, particularly the bit about him beating up his mother. But the author is wrong to think that Van Hoogstraten's disease is one that belongs to the rich. A lot of psychopaths are very poor because they tend to have poor impulse control and can't hold down jobs.