[quote]Avoids Roids wrote:
Vatican.[/quote]
I had a ZMA induced nightmare about white men in little white pope hats strangling me and searching my apartment for evidence of heresy.
I now have fantasies about bullying the vatican security forces.
[quote]BarneyFife wrote:
I now have fantasies about bullying the vatican security forces.[/quote]
Barney Fife versus the Swiss Guards? Hahaha! Good luck. 
[quote]Dweezil wrote:
Roy wrote:
MS-13 is just a bunch of high-school “bullies”. They where there when I went to high-school, and still there after I left. Their “operations” are jumping people at bus stops. Buncha bitches if ya ask me.
Are you kidding me? MS-13 owns Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. They are the largest and most vicious gang in the Americas, there was fear that they’d start assisting terrorist attacks in America since they’re predominately composed (or were) of people who were fighting against the Salvadoran government and immigrants who fled the war, the government that the US government backed. They probably move more drugs through this country than all other gang output tripled. [/quote]
Not the ones who claimed it on the east-coast. I bet they are active as hell in southern-america, but around here they are just kids. They may be the largest, because every spanish kid claims, but they deffinately don’t have an impact.
Wu Tang Clan aint nutin to fuck wit
Come down to McArthur park here in LA and start yelling those words, I bet a bunch of “kids” will come out to greet you.
Check this out
[quote]AdamC wrote:
Gambit_Lost wrote:
AdamC wrote:
The Yakuza is an intersting one too. The short story is that they were very well respected in Japan, and the police turned a blind eye to a lot of their activities as long as they didn’t cause too much trouble to law abiding people. Then some innocent old fella got shot and the police got pissed. The Yakuza were clamped down on and you dont see them walking the streets in Yakuza fashions anymore.
I see them walking down the street in Yakuza fashions. And I’m an ousider who doesn’t even know what to look for.
Are you sure it’s not just people copying the fashions?
“Yakuza fashion is changing. In the 1990’s punch-perms and colourful fashions were de rigueur, but the trend seems to have died just before the turn of the millenium. Yakuza decided that they stood out too much and were getting a lot of negative publicity in the press so they toned down their image. The Osaka kumicho (boss) of the Yamaguchi-gumi has issued an edict that gang members are to dress plainly so that they do not stand out from the general population. Young people are supposed to dress like college students or street kids and the older men are supposed to look like a salariman. Yakuza no longer wear their gang pins in public and gang leaders who once favoured expensive, antique Zippo lighters are now using the 100 yen variety. Some yakuza, particularly the low ranking ones, still dress like the models in the picture, but enjoy the tackiness while you can because in a few years you probably won’t be able to see it anymore.”[/quote]
That’s not the only way to spot Yakuza. They are all over the place. They just happen to value blending in more than they use to. But the lower level ones are really easy to spot, along with the fakes.
[quote]nickels wrote:
That’s not the only way to spot Yakuza. They are all over the place. They just happen to value blending in more than they use to. But the lower level ones are really easy to spot, along with the fakes.[/quote]
When I first moved to Chiba, there was a nondescript little building just up the road from the train station, and within sight of the police station. There was always a Mercedes or two parked out front, and everyone knew it was the local office of the Yamaguchi-gumi (yukuza). I think even the police knew.
I used to go to a sento (public bath) in Motoyawata, just a few stations away, because my little shithole apartment had no hot water. One of the regulars there was a gent with a spectacular full-body tattoo depicting Kwannon (buddhist goddess) riding the back of a black dragon. He had a few missing teeth, and was also missing the first joint of his left pinkie, which he had likely sliced off himself. He had the obligatory punch-perm, the gold chains, the brown gold-rimmed sunglasses, and the aloha shirt.
The funny thing was, he and I actually got on rather well. Everyone was scared to death of him because he was yakuza, and people were a bit scared of me because I was a gaijin (this was back in 1989), so we had something in common, besides our tattoos.
These days, every surfer, biker, metalhead and punker in Japan is getting tattooed, something that was unheard of ten years ago, so a tattoo is no longer comprehensive proof of yakuza-hood. But you can still tell the difference. And if you see the way some people walk down the street and other people scurry get out of their way, you can get a feeling for who might just be the real deal.
The “Hells Angels” although not in the limelight as much these days, are still one of the largest distributors of drugs and guns in the country.
Trivia question:
In reference to the popular methamphetamine. Do you know where the term “crank” came from?
[quote]ArcaneCocaine wrote:
Donut62 wrote:
The Japanese Yakuza essentially operate openly and touch every facet of Japanese business. I would definetely look into that one.
I would ask Sakakibara.
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Or Naoto Morishita…oh wait.
I’m sure the Ferttitas could fill you in on the domestic side.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
How about the Russkies killing their ex-spy with a mini dirty radiation bomb?
Makes the CIA look like a bunch of incompetents.[/quote]
I was always a fan of their pointy umbrella poison contraption. The Russians have such a jovial creativity when it comes to death.
[quote]DR. J wrote:
Come down to McArthur park here in LA and start yelling those words, I bet a bunch of “kids” will come out to greet you.
Check this out
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gang30oct30,1,5492282.story[/quote]
I live on the east coast, that’s why I said “east coast”.
[quote]P-DOG wrote:
The “Hells Angels” although not in the limelight as much these days, are still one of the largest distributors of drugs and guns in the country.
Trivia question:
In reference to the popular methamphetamine. Do you know where the term “crank” came from? [/quote]
Because bikers hid it in the crankcase of their motorcycles?
I believe the Hell’s Angels is the top organization in Canada.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
BarneyFife wrote:
I now have fantasies about bullying the vatican security forces.
Barney Fife versus the Swiss Guards? Hahaha! Good luck. ;)[/quote]
It depends if the swiss guards are wearing metal armor and using halbreds, or if they are wearing the little striped pants and carrying zip-guns, like the vatican police.
[quote]BarneyFife wrote:
It depends if the swiss guards are wearing metal armor and using halbreds, or if they are wearing the little striped pants and carrying zip-guns, like the vatican police.[/quote]
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
[quote]Donut62 wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
How about the Russkies killing their ex-spy with a mini dirty radiation bomb?
Makes the CIA look like a bunch of incompetents.
I was always a fan of their pointy umbrella poison contraption. The Russians have such a jovial creativity when it comes to death.[/quote]
The assassination of I think an Archduke with Ricin. A KGB classic.
My vote goes to the upper 1% of society. All conspiracy theories aside if you don’t think that corrupt billionaires run this country and are the real shot callers then you’re insane. Like many of you have said these are Ivy league educated men who know how to get what they want and keep their mouths shut. Together they posess enough wealth, power and education to finance gangs like MS-13 to do their dirty work.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
What about The Legion of Doom?[/quote]
Bwahahaha! that was funny for some reason today…
[quote]P-DOG wrote:
The “Hells Angels” although not in the limelight as much these days, are still one of the largest distributors of drugs and guns in the country.
Trivia question:
In reference to the popular methamphetamine. Do you know where the term “crank” came from? [/quote]
yes, where they hide the stash, that would be in the crank shaft… damn, i know too much drug trivia!
The BATFE.