[quote]Digital Chainsaw wrote:
der Koning wrote:
Yeesh, that IS bad. Come on down to Florida, dude. The weather is nice and they still make punks the way they used to; pussies who are scared of anyone with backbone!
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Well it’s not THAT bad usually,you just have to avoid a certain small % of the population and your fine. However all canadians do dream of that nice florida weather…
[quote]Digital Chainsaw wrote:
michael2507 wrote:
Good points, Digital Chainsaw. Nevertheless, reputation aside, I could still imagine a scenario where one of those guys shoots him from behind or the like. It seems like a no win situation.
Very, very true, and unfortunately, this sometimes turns out to be the case. I look at it this way: If someone is going to shoot me, then there is very little, if anything I can do about it. I used to hear this all the time from punk asses I threw out of nightclubs when I was a bouncer, and I always blew it off. I mean, you can be aware of your surroundings and such, but you can’t live in fear 24/7, and if someone(s) is/are really intent on shooting you, short of full-body kevlar everytime you leave the house, you are going to be vulnerable some of the time. With this in mind, like I posted earlier, mazilla took a gamble and played the odds (that these were all cowards that would back off with a show of force) when he did what he claims to have done, and in his case it paid off and he was able to live in peace. It sucks being faced with that kind of choice and, thankfully, most of us never will be.
I agree, though that it sometimes does become a no-win situation and street cred does not always carry the day. You will always have some wild card punk-ass with a .357 under his bed in his mom’s basement that listens to too much Fitty and wants to show that he “ain’t scared of nobody”.
And the sad thing is it could have started from nothing more than one of these little asswipes thinking you cut him off in traffic. I keep my pieces clean and loaded for just such an emergency.
A good movie that, while somewhat off topic, illustrates how one can get sucked in by the criminal element through no fault of their own and have to go to extremes is “An Innocent Man” with Tom Selleck. I trust anyone on this forum has enough sense to seperate the Hollywood bullshit from the valid points, so it’s all good. In fact, I stole that “you don’t have to stand tall, but you have to stand up” line in my earlier post from that movie.
Oh, and thanks, everyone who replied for the constructive dialogue. I was really expecting to get raked over the coals for this one. I guess level heads sometimes do prevail.[/quote]
Nice posts and points, and I agree with most of it.
However, I don’t fuck with guns, and I don’t give respect to some fuck on the street who uses them. Put your fucking gun down and use your fists, or get the fuck away from me.
I also don’t agree with his posting this garbage on an internet site (unintelligent) and I don’t like that he thinks (or thought) that this was impressive.
Its shit like that that you might not have to do, but its not something I would exactly run around talking about it. When you talk lots of shit, thats when bad shit happens to you; it comes back around. Its not a good thing.
[quote]harris447 wrote:
Y’know, it’s amazing: I’ve managed to go through life without getting in fight or needing a “nine” or getting jumped.
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Jesus man did you go to high school?
Never a fight? Ever?
This stuff happens. Around where I am, guns are the last bastion of where guys generally won’t go.
My best friend got jumped by 10 or 15 guys in the high school parking lot; he almost lost his vision from that.
A friend of mine whacked a guy with a cue ball, I’ve known guys who got stabbed or nearly stabbed…and this ain’t in Newark either.
I don’t see why this shit is hard to believe.
On a related note, I still don’t believe the story that Mazilla tells. Its funny how shit like that gets crazier over time, and the story gets far more impressive and intricate when its over the internet…
[quote]Kliplemet wrote:
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Agree’d
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
harris447 wrote:
Y’know, it’s amazing: I’ve managed to go through life without getting in fight or needing a “nine” or getting jumped.
Jesus man did you go to high school?
Never a fight? Ever?
Either the other posters on this thread are lying or making incredibly poor decisions about whom they should associate with.
This stuff happens. Around where I am, guns are the last bastion of where guys generally won’t go.
My best friend got jumped by 10 or 15 guys in the high school parking lot; he almost lost his vision from that.
A friend of mine whacked a guy with a cue ball, I’ve known guys who got stabbed or nearly stabbed…and this ain’t in Newark either.
I don’t see why this shit is hard to believe.
On a related note, I still don’t believe the story that Mazilla tells. Its funny how shit like that gets crazier over time, and the story gets far more impressive and intricate when its over the internet…[/quote]
Course I went to high school. I just remained, at best, nodding acquaintances with people who liked to punch each other.
Last time I got into a fight was third grade. Glenn O’Remus. We’re still friends.
I firmly believe no one gets jumped for no reason. Not talking about being mugged; that I’ve been.
Just never particularly cared to get jumped or stabbed or whatever. Call me quirky.
this shit is comedy, you guys really think that i would lie about this shit? let me break it down for you real quick.I grew up on the east side of riverside, california. i won’t name the streets because many of my friends still make a nice living in retail there. the point is this, i grew up in the part of town where nobody wants to go. you don’t walk at night, unless you have a gun or your in a gang. the only gang’s in that area are the east side rivas(mexicans), who clash with 12th st (blacks).
there are also the gangsters from casa blanca(C.B.)but they are from the opposite side of town.back to my area, one side of the street is mexican, one side is black. i have lost two good friends in the last two years(RIP, Birdie and Sal). i’ve had one friend who shot while driving, luckily he managed to drive himself to the hospital. i’ve been jumped, and stabbed, held at gun point on my birthday, and the list goes on. i’ve been in more fights than i care to remeber(or can in some cases).
my friend has been robbed at gunpoint twice, in his own home. i’ve been locked up, drugged out, and hung out to dry. i have seen more shit than most of you will in your whole life.then you get these white boy, dirt bike riding, jocks from the white part of town. these are the people who jumped and stabbed me. like the other poster said, they don’t belong in this scene at all. our paths crossed and they fell right in. i think they realized who they had fucked with when i made homeboy cry.
you all know that story, moving right along.(jump a couple of years in the furture)i could see what was happening,it’s like i was watching myself go down but i could’nt do anything about it. long story short, i managed to pull my head out of my ass long enough to realize that i was not going to end up anywhere, but dead or worse if kept it up.
now i have turned my life around completely.i make 50k a year @ 25, i have an assoc. degree in culinary arts, i manage the san diego branch of a major overnight shipping firm, and i am waiting to buy a house. my point is this, just because i may have fit the description of a “thug” once does not mean that is who i am today. i may deal with life differently than most of you, but it’s not who i am anymore. i moved to a new city, and started over. so far so good, it’s just my girlfriend, our dogs, and the gym.
i live for the gym now, i dedicated my life to my girl, and the gym. some of you may now the lifestyle that i have described, you will understand. for the rest of you, i know what your going to say. i don’t like to give away details about myself very often, but i find it hard to avoid when being called a liar. this is who i am, and who i was. i can never change who i have been, and i would never. it has made me who i am today.
if you don’t fuck with me, i am the nicest person you will ever meet. but if you cross the line, it’s your life or mine. there is no shame in dying protecting yourself of your family. whatever your definition of family may be.seeing as i have nothing else to share with this thread, i leave you with this thought, can a man really change who he is, or is he born to fullfill that destiny?
p.s. i got your troll of the month right here, on the end of my boot. bend over fags.
[quote]mazilla wrote:
p.s. i got your troll of the month right here, on the end of my boot. bend over fags.[/quote]
It’s stuff like that right there that makes people doubt everything you say (i.e. the “Malibu’s Most Wanted” references). That and the whole calling out a 9/11 firefighter. Up until that post-script, I was actually saying to myself “Okay, maybe he is just a bit misunderstood”.
If you are now out of that life that you described, and you really are doing as well as you say, then I think that’s great. Good for you (and no, I’m not saying that in a sarcastic manner whatsoever). It’s good to see that not everyone gets totally consumed by that would-be fate.
But right when you seem to show just a hint of maturity, you go and shoot your mouth off again for no reason whatsoever. If you don’t like being called a liar, fine. But people aren’t going to take you seriously when you say shit like the things above (and what you said to the firefighter, as I already mentioned).
Just say what needs to be said and leave it at that. The streets may be different, but around here people will have much more respect for you if you refrain from going on the defensive and throwing around curse words and insults everytime someone says something you don’t like.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
However, I don’t fuck with guns, and I don’t give respect to some fuck on the street who uses them. Put your fucking gun down and use your fists, or get the fuck away from me.
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I totally agree (I own guns but don’t use them like play toys). As the great prophet, Kool Moe Dee once said:
Guns!
We don’t like to use them
Unless
Our enemies choose them
We prefer to fight ya like a man
And beat ya down with our hands
And body-slam you at
The wild, wild west…