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Author Topic: Gangs... have you ever been in one, beat up by one, did business with, or beat one up? [Locked]
_Haole_  1 star
Posts: 103
Registered: 2003-10-16 13:26:56
I drank 40s with some Latin Kings years ago.

 

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Caledric  4 stars
Title: Pew! Pew! Pew!
Posts: 1,327
Registered: 2001-12-22 07:59:39
ikkoikki posted:

Yeah for like 2 weeks in jr high. I think they're their own nation in the same way Afrika Baambaata and the Zulu Nation are their own Nation...i.e. not at all



They have territory they protect with a vengence, they have a hierachy that rules them, they are politically influencial, and they are militant... sounds like a nation to me. They are just as recognized as a nation as many of the viking "nations" were.

 

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EbonDragon  4 stars
Title: 8bit epileptic
Posts: 1,041
Registered: 2002-12-21 19:14:06
This is acf, everyone makes tons of money and grew up in shtty neighborhoods.
ikkoikki  4 stars
Posts: 1,964
Registered: 2009-2-8 10:34:47
the vikings never had any nations, they did have kingdoms...and kingdoms were the precursors to nations...

so you're wrong here based on your definition of nation. No gang has a nation (that I'm aware of) and no vikings ever had a nation.

 

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Caledric  4 stars
Title: Pew! Pew! Pew!
Posts: 1,327
Registered: 2001-12-22 07:59:39
ikkoikki posted:

the vikings never had any nations, they did have kingdoms...and kingdoms were the precursors to nations...

so you're wrong here based on your definition of nation. No gang has a nation (that I'm aware of) and no vikings ever had a nation.



You do realize that a Kingdom and a Nation are the same thing right?

 

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ikkoikki  4 stars
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Registered: 2009-2-8 10:34:47
No, I don't. They're not.

 

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Achim_LC  1 star
Title: Knuckle Dragging Thug
Posts: 192
Registered: 2002-1-20 00:31:45
-Drack- posted:

Achim_LC posted:

Working where I did, I had close contact with every major street and prison gang in California.

Growing up in Fresno I had to deal with a few gangs when I was a kid.



Didn't know you grew up in Fresno. When did you leave?

I grew up in Madera/Fresno but am still here.



I left in 87 when I was in High School.

 

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Cuttlery  4 stars
Title: Wanna see what you missed?
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Registered: 2001-1-9 19:31:21
I think I saw a gang member once.

 

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-Ducky-  3 stars
Posts: 580
Registered: 2001-6-1 14:21:49
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-Accident-  3 stars
Title: Waiting to happen
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Registered: 2000-8-24 09:49:04
Never been in a gang, but there were gangs in my neighborhood growing up and at my high school. I generally tried to avoid gangbangers, I personally think they are crap.

 

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