>Kevin could probably give you the numbers more
accurately.
>Montreal's his turf, but I believe there are more
than 100 murders (and not
>all of them bikers by any stretch) attributed to the
Hells Angels vs. Rock
>Machine battle for turf. Quebec was a final North
American frontier, with
>something similar anticipated in Ontario when things
got settled down
>river, as they were within the past year. After that
it took the Hells
>about a week to organize independent Ontario clubs,
thought that may not be
>complete yet.
Yep. At least a hundred. It's hard to tell though. Some biker
gets killed, is it a hit, or just a domestic dispute? Rumours
are a recent car bomb that went off, sending a couple of
bikers to the great beyond may have been set by a jealous
girlfriend.
Anything you've heard about the Mafia, just think bikers.
That's how big it is.
And Montreal, always a wide-open town, has -- through a
combination of corruption, laissez-faire attitudes, bloated
bureaucracy and far too often incompetent cops -- become a
kind of ground zero for the bikers. In Chandler's last short
story with Marlowe, THE PENCIL, he refers to Montreal as
"almost as crooked" as we are. I'll take that as a point of
twisted pride, and carry it with me wherever I go.
Can a whole city be a femme fatale?
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