Gangsta

[Strike For The South]

I have tried to stay out of the Frontroom (i'm not doing a very good job of that) so far to try to direct my posting in the gaming side. Unfortunately I have to step in here, and what I have to say could go in any of a few Frontroom threads.

I just can't get my head around the States, nothing seems to compare to the UK in terms of the general ideologies of the population. More precisely the younger generations. If I walked through "Gang" areas here and were threatened I would have had to have done something to provoke them. Keep your head down and nothing happens. Sometimes you will get the odd trouble maker who will start something but not often.

For one of these groups to start calling you "hater" makes me think that you ran into the local 10 year olds! Threaten to hospitalise a gang of hoodies, chavs w/e over here you will be hurt. More than likely badly as UK adolescent/ young males (or females) stereotypically have no idea of when to stop the beatings.

This leads me on to another thread but it ties in here. It is referring to "stand-offs" in bars. Excuse me? Attempt a stand-off over here and it wouldn't last long, bottles, tables, fists etc would be crashing in before you could say " lets have a stand-...". Ahem.

Then of course it would be dispersed quickly by the bouncers but only to be taken outside, which is much, much worse.

I don't live in a rough area, not by a long stretch. I don't frequent rough bars neither. Much of this sounds like forum hyperboles but it really is aggravating to read. Please cut it out lads nobody is interested in this kind of posturing.

You clearly don't understand

Here at the Org fights are common place, not only common place but we win all of them, most often against seemingly insurmountable odds

[gaelic cowboy]

Seriously VUK what age were they 12

If you walk in gang areas in Ireland and threaten to put them in hospital then your family will be attending a funeral fairly soon. You don't mess with the likes of the Irish drug gangs or the IRA, you walk through there areas and you SHUT your mouth.

[Zim]

You clearly don't understand

Here at the Org fights are common place, not only common place but we win all of them, most often against seemingly insurmountable odds

I thought fights were fairly rare since Orgers frown all the time without meaning to and scare people...unless they're wearing glasses.

EDIT: See MRD's post above for a better explanation. Some weeks back there was a drive-by in they city I work in. Luckily the shooters were crap shots. And apparently their target pulled a gun and shot back. The police caught them shortly thereafter, but haven't managed to charge anyone but the driver.

CR

I'd take it a step further and say the police failed to charge anyone at all, mostly because it's not the police who get to charge people with crimes. Perhaps they committed some gross incompetence while gathering evidence or witness statements, although that seems unlikely since they did apparently find the guys. More likely the DA (or ADA, etc.) believes there is not enough evidence to make a case against the others yet, and is waiting until he has enough that the case against them wouldn't immediately be thrown out. Or any one of a ton of other reasons a District Attorney would either wait before charging, or decide not to altogether.

[Samurai Waki]

The "gangstas" you see hanging outside middle class mostly white areas are not the same gangsters you find working the inner city. Discretion is a top priority if you plan on "making it" long term, any that I have met were VERY low key about themselves unless they were within their own turf, and even then dodgy at best. Most gangs have enforcers, these people are the ones who back up the dealer's words with action, they don't care about you, their main impulse is "I really hope this person doesn't come up with the money..." What you encountered were not "gangsta's" but street toughs, if they are affiliated with a gang (and they probably are not), they're probably seen as cannon fodder.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I'd take it a step further and say the police failed to charge anyone at all, mostly because it's not the police who get to charge people with crimes. Perhaps they committed some gross incompetence while gathering evidence or witness statements, although that seems unlikely since they did apparently find the guys. More likely the DA (or ADA, etc.) believes there is not enough evidence to make a case against the others yet, and is waiting until he has enough that the case against them wouldn't immediately be thrown out. Or any one of a ton of other reasons a District Attorney would either wait before charging, or decide not to altogether.

You are correct that I should be frustrated at the DA, since I've read nothing about the police mishandling evidence in the case.

CR