Again.
Same sort of thing that happened at the Casino in Nevada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TPSqa4m6g (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04TPSqa4m6g)
On Point
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/05/19/the-biker-gangs-of-texas (http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/05/19/the-biker-gangs-of-texas)
The Bandido's are one of the original big 1% clubs.
I don't know about the "baddest". Take your pick. 81 or The Outlaws, Mongols they are pretty much all the same. All of em basically are saying they are the baddest by putting on the patch. So they don't mix. Somebody is going to push the issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VV7gdwoJk8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VV7gdwoJk8)
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/waco-biker-brawl-bandidos-are-baddest-bad-expert-says-n360566 (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/waco-biker-brawl-bandidos-are-baddest-bad-expert-says-n360566)
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Waco Biker Brawl: Bandidos Are 'Baddest of the Bad,' Expert Says
Nine people are dead after a fight among bikers escalated into a gun battle involving police and outlaw organizations that seemed ripped from another era.
Waco Police Department / Reuters
Scores of bikers gathered at a bar-restaurant Sunday in Waco, Texas. Expecting trouble, a dozen police officers were standing by. And then: mayhem. A fight spilled into the parking lot, ?initially involving just fists and feet, but escalating quickly to chains, knives, clubs and firearms,? The New York Times reported. ?Eight members of motorcycle clubs were killed at the scene and another died at a hospital.?
The shootout took place at a busy shopping center.
?There were maybe 30 guns being fired in the parking lot,? a witness told the Waco Tribune. ?There?s a lot of people in the hospital, a lot of people shot.? All bikers, amazingly. Bikers reportedly fired at one another and at police, who fired back. No video has yet emerged and although 100 people were detained for questioning, none of the bikers has yet spoken to the press. The Tribune added, ?other local dining and drinking establishments, including Rudy?s Country Store & Bar-B-Q, closed early as concern spread that other gang members were traveling to Waco to resume the violence.?
Police warned them not to try anything today.
Law-enforcement officials put particular blame on two motorcycle gangs, the Bandidos and Cossacks. Enter Skip Hollandsworth to address what we?re all thinking.
?If you weren?t living here thirty or forty years ago, you might not have any idea who the Bandidos are,? he reported in a 2007 Texas Monthly article. ?You probably have no inkling that they were once the terrors of Texas, so fearsome that when a rumor spread through a town that they were coming, people literally headed inside their homes and locked their doors. And even if you do know who they are, you could very well have trouble believing they still exist. The Bandidos? The renegade motorcycle gang? Aren?t they long gone, artifacts of the Easy Rider era? Hasn?t the motorcycle world been taken over by lawyers, doctors, and advertising executives, all those self-proclaimed ?chromosexuals? who pull back their hair in neat ponytails and don designer sunglasses and expensive black leather jackets so that they can take leisurely rides through the countryside on sunny weekend afternoons??
They can't just you know enjoy the road together? a few beers? some burgers? some nice bikes? some laughs? all good?
Quote from: BikerDude on May 20, 2015, 10:20:52 AM
There's a lot of people in the hospital, a lot of people shot. All bikers, amazingly.
That's really good aim or even better luck. I suspect the PR and resulting crackdown would have been utterly devastating if even one or two civilians got hit. Oh, and it would have been "domestic terrorism" and the patriot act would have been immediately reauthorized.
I think I get what's going on here. Turf war. Nut-check. New blood vs. the establishment. Maintaining street cred. Maybe some carryover from competitive and profitable, if illicit, activities. But, damn, they gotta do it at a sit-down casual restaurant staffed by pretty ladies? That ain't cool. No one else there signed up for that shit. Take it out to the salt flats, the ole' oil fields, or whatever abandoned creepy-ass place is nearby.
Quote from: jgiffin on May 21, 2015, 12:55:26 AM
Quote from: BikerDude on May 20, 2015, 10:20:52 AM
There's a lot of people in the hospital, a lot of people shot. All bikers, amazingly.
That's really good aim or even better luck. I suspect the PR and resulting crackdown would have been utterly devastating if even one or two civilians got hit. Oh, and it would have been "domestic terrorism" and the patriot act would have been immediately reauthorized.
I think I get what's going on here. Turf war. Nut-check. New blood vs. the establishment. Maintaining street cred. Maybe some carryover from competitive and profitable, if illicit, activities. But, damn, they gotta do it at a sit-down casual restaurant staffed by pretty ladies? That ain't cool. No one else there signed up for that shit. Take it out to the salt flats, the ole' oil fields, or whatever abandoned creepy-ass place is nearby.
It generally does happen at public places.
There was one big one some years back at a speedway. Another at a tattoo expo.
Of course the real big one in the casino.
After the casino incident the DEA got serious and you had a bunch of undercover guy infiltrating some of the biggest clubs.
I'm sure that most of the casualties where inflicted by the SWAT team. I guess they had 2 separate SWAT teams on site right away when it started. Which means they saw it coming.
They exchanged gunfire with the bikers and it was over pretty quick.
I mean guys with AR15's who are trained against a bunch of dipshits with 9mm's.
Do the math. I'd say the dead got what they had coming.
It would be nice if people could just wear their little patches and party and get along but it's just not the mentality. It's the height of undude. As soon as you put on the patch you draw a line in the sand. Across this line....
All this reminds me of the movie "beyond the Law". (Hilariously cheesy)
Looks like they're gonna have to bring in Sid undercover to kick some ass...
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