I did a little online newspaper search and saw that biker
gangs have, indeed, resurfaced in the Philadelphia area,
mostly in the burbs, but a Pagan leader's tattoo parlor was
torched in South Philly and a turncoat was beaten up in the
Northeast. I also read that last year Mudman Simon was
murdered on Death Row, where he had been living after killing
a cop shortly after his release from a long prison sentence,
which gives the lie to the commonsense notion that
psychopaths burn out and become safe in society in their
forties. (The accused murderer was pleading
self-defense.)
The age of these guys is
fascinating--fifties and sixties. Even the one from Lancaster
who was killed in that Long Island brawl was fifty. Does any
crime fiction reflect this reality?
Articles also noted in passing that
Canada has a worse problem and that Scandinavian biker gangs
have used rocket launchers.
Joy, amused that _Shape of Snakes_ has pictures
T. Kent Morgan <
tkmorgan@shaw.ca> noted:
> You don't have to be in Montreal, Boston or Philly
to find biker wars; we
> have them right here in the Canadian prairies. Since
the Hell's Angels
came
> to town a couple of years ago and essentially took
over the most powerful
of
> the local biker gangs, there have been several
killings and shootings
> involving the Angels, their street gang, the Zig Zag
Crew, and their
> wannabees and what's left of another biker gang.
Members have been found
> executed, gang locations have been bombed, and a
shooting took place on
the
> longest street in Canada, the TransCanada Highway,
i.e., Portage Ave in
> Winnipeg. A couple of weeks ago a Zig Zag Crew drug
dealer was found shot
to
> death on a church grounds just a few minutes from my
home. And I live in
> River Heights, long considered to be one of the
safest areas of the city.
> Funny, most people don't seem to be
concerned.
>
> Kent Morgan in the murder capital of Canada (per
capita) according to some
> stats
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