Staples Gang War?

[powerboy]

I always wondered, WHAT THE HELL is up with Baggy pants? WTH is up with gangs having theie own colors? If I want to wear which either color, I am going too. Plus, I do not look like I am a gang member. I remember once, back in high school. I almost got jumped, because I had a Green Jacket on, yes a green jacket. The jacket was some cheap one from Walmart. Gangs in general are stupid. If you want to show how tough you are in front of your friends, why don't you help clean up the city. Instead of messing it up more.

[Rapscallion]

The size of a mob is in direct inverse proportion to the number of its members.

Besides, people have rallied around colours and fought over them for years.

For example...

Also...

Again...

Not to forget...

Last but not least...

Raspcallion

[Becks]

Raps, good point.

I don't get the Ronald McDonald reference, however.

[Andara Bledin]

Well, it can be useful for entertainment value watching one of the uberbaggy-pants running to catch a bus or train

Ooooh, yeah. That's always good for a laugh.

And if they hold them up, then they've got one hand at crotch level at the front. When they have to pull them back into place, they look like they're fiddling with their junk.

^-.-^

[Rapscallion]

I don't get the Ronald McDonald reference, however.

Psst - I have been known to make the occasional quip. Sometimes, I even chortle as I do this.

Just, you know, don't let on the secret to everyone, will you? It will spoil the surprise...

Rapscallion

[zzapp the witch]

We had a crips recruiter start up in town about 10 years ago. He was beat within an inch of his life and left to die in a ditch. He lived, but neither crips nor bloods are in our corner of Oregon. Closest thing to anything ganglike around here are the Gypsy Jokers. Nice guys. Real helpful and respectful (as long as you are polite to them, too).

And WhyTF would the crips want to recruit in my little redneck part of the woods? Always seemed weird to me, I was never able to figure that one out.

Still, it seems that even the most idiotic would be able to discern that red POLO shirts might actually be a work uniform, seein as polo shirt aren't <insert latest slang for cool, hip, and stylin>.

[wagegoth]

Petaluma's 400 miles/650 km from Los Angeles, birthplace of the Bloods and Crips. It's farm country that's getting suburbanized, it's definitely not urban. It sounds to me like some kids trying to prove just how dedicated they are to their gang, and going above and beyond. Behavior like that may actually get the gang to turn on them.

The baggy, hanging pants are from prison wear. The tough guys wear their pants hanging as a "You can see it, you ain't ever gonna have it," symbol, as in the guy is so tough he will never be anyone's bitch.

A lot of the wannabes around here (SF Bay Area, where Petaluma is) do wear polo shirts, because they're fairly cheap, come in all colors, and come in monster sizes that can hang to their knees.

Ack, I hate that I know all this off the top of my head.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Does this mean the Bloods are going to go to Best Buy for a retaliatory strike?