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Pat Garrett

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Crime Fighter

The Resume

    (June 5, 1850-February 28, 1908)
    Born in Chambers County, Alabama
    Sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico (1880-82)
    Known for killing Billy the Kid (July 14, 1881)

Why he might be annoying:

    Before becoming a lawman, he killed a fellow buffalo hunter in an argument over hides (1878).
    Less than a year after his wife Juanita died, he married her sister Apolonaria.
    He shot Billy the Kid while the Kid was unarmed.
    He lost a job as customs agent after embarrassing President Theodore Roosevelt by showing up at a Rough Riders reunion with a notorious gambler.
    Excessive gambling left him heavily in debt.
    After his killer was acquitted on grounds of self-defense, his largest creditor held a barbecue to celebrate the verdict.

Why he might not be annoying:

    Given that Billy the Kid had killed two of Garrett's deputies in a jail break, he may have felt that shooting first and asking questions later was the best course.
    Governor Lew Wallace reneged on paying him the $500 bounty on the Kid's head.
    He was shot by Jesse Wayne Brazel in a dispute over Brazel grazing his goats on Garrett's land.
    Although Brazel successfully pleaded self-defense, an alternate account claims Garrett was shot in the back while urinating along the side of the road.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 21 Votes: 38.10% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 36 Votes: 8.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 21 Votes: 52.38% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 16 Votes: 68.75% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 24 Votes: 54.17% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 35 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying