answer: yes

good times actually.....best and craziest years of my life!!

thank god i changed path .......

god bless porn!

Been there. Done that.

Would I do it again. Hell no. Hindsight sure is 20/20.

solo girl

We had a crew in High School called the "Mob Crew". We actually didn't call ourselved that, but we got labeled that. Just a bunch of us that partied, fought, fucked and got stoned. Thank God I grew out of it, but it's more than I can say for some people who we hung out with. I was also in a tagging crew around Vegas. When I went to college, I actually got my art scholarship from my graffitti on canvas. :)

I was in El Emm-ay (The Mexican Mafia) in the joint. I have the ink to prove it.

i was a trouble child but i never joined a gang...

I grew up with Crips but wasent stupid enough to get involved.
Gotta love Queens. :upsidedow

Yeah, man - I left Canarsie in 89'!

... and well said. It wasn't like we were bloods or crips. more like 20 -30 guys and chicks hanging out by the corner store or pizzaria's or whatever park and there were always beefs with other kids from whatever other part of the neighborhood or the next neighborhoods over.

i remember one night a few friends had an issue with some kids in Mill Basin. When they got back to Canarsie we loaded up in 4 cars and drove back over. it was like 16 of us against 20+ of them and this one kid got stabbed with a screwdriver in the neck. he lived and wore his battle scar as a "badge of honor"!

One time when i was 16 i was with 6 friends over by Kings Plaza causing trouble. We ended up in a fight with these guys. they left and we were walking through their neighborhood. turns out they got a bunch more of their friends and we turned around about 5 blocks away and had like 20 guys chasing us. i ended up getting caught hiding on someones balcony. I hit the first guy with one of those metal folding chairs. he went flying down the stairs and 4 more guys came up and beat the crap out of me with baseball bats and chains. It felt like an eternity but probably only lasted about 40 seconds to a minute or so IF that long!

One of the people on the block started screming about calling the cops and all the kids took off running. my friends were scattered hiding under cars and on other balconies ... 2 kids banged on someone's door and pushed their way in.

I was laying on the floor like a bloody stump. bleeding from below my eye and my skull plus they busted up my elbow something awful!

Funny how this HEAT just took over my whole body and everything was in slow motion! i didn't feel any pain. not one whack from a bat or chain hurt .... I was kicked and punched and didn't feel anything. Pretty nuts!

My friends packed me all bloody into a car service and high-tailed it over to Brookdale Hospital (where I was born)! They carried me into the ER and dropped me on the nurses desk. I left a few hours later with some butterfly stiches, a minor concussion and my arm in a sling!

The next week we mobbed up and drove back! I'm not going to post what we did in retaliation - but man, we were some crazy fucks!

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Oh, the memories!

Great stories man, Im a little younger, but have many similar stories from the same areas. many beefs in kings plaza during high school, spent most of my time in Coney, had a long term girlfriend there from 17-21 I am actually going back there tommorow, today actually, i leave at 4 pm. Folks still live in mill basin, Shame was happened to canarsie, in your time of growing up it was a great place for the working class, a lot of 'neighborhood' guys, basically a slum now. An extension of East New York. My little league coach used to own " Laundry King " on ave L, 80 something street. The good old says...man do things change ;)

MOB piru

50 bangers.

I was in a gang

The Gay Pimps :pimp

We even made a video to show that we're the shit. Here it is. Follow the link if you have the balls :pimp

My Brownie troop could kick ass if we had to.

sound like names of boy bands..

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yes and no i never wore colors but we definitely had symbols or teams that we wore when i was living in LA. other than that i guess it could have been like a gang when i was alot younger, a group of us that skated together, got in group fights and always ran together doing crazy shit.

i was in a ghost busters gang lol. We never did find any ghosts though :(

In the early up to mid late 80's I was in the Guardian Angels Boston chapter, not really a gang per se, but an anti gang/anti crime community patrol. This was when I was at the peak of my martial arts training. It was a real eye opener for me & opened alot of doors for me & gave me several opportunites to utilize skills I could really only use in full contact tournaments. It was pretty tough out there some nights.. It was still pretty early in the groups movement & there was alot of negative sentiment sometimes, but things changed since then.. I recall one night on a community street patrol, we were outnumbered by a gang of armed thugs & ended up roof skipping across Columbia Point Projects to get the fuck out of there,,

I got involved in gangs at a young age when I lived near Stockton, CA living in a mexican neighborhood it was all I could do to fit in and get by..

Luckily I got out when I moved away to the bay area.... I've been shot at, stabbed, and have done alot of things I never want to do to anyone again...

I ran with the Sur 13, Sureno/Sur means South, a Southern California formed gang that rivals Norte/Nortenos, (North) Sur 13 is still a major mexican gang all over the US now, we have peewees here in Oregon even who have family that moved this way to work on farms and who came to traffic meth and coke up here. You'd prolly see the graffiti SUR, X3, 13.. They are very affiliated with Brown Pride and La Eme (The Mexican Mafia) Not to be confused with MS13, Mara Salvatrucha, which is a gang from El Salvador

when i was 10 growing up in the bronx my best friend and i were a gang of 2 called blockbusters...good name?

Same here been shot at by 18st and had a gun put to my head all in culver city high school. Our rivals were 18 street and venice 13 i was that crazy White boy. I'm lucky I'm still alive with all the stupid shit I did.

back in the late 80's the gangs in LA were at there peak big time.

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that was great! about the speed of any 'gangs' i joined in my youth


spaz

Wa Ching bitches

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Yeah, Canarsie was heading in that direction when i left. You could see it happening before your eyes. Growing up - the Bayview projects was pretty racially diverse but towards the end it seemed like the crime was just so rampant that there was a mass exodus.

The neighborhood itself is shot to shit. I used to drive through whenever I went back and NOW I don't recognize the place anymore.

My mother is in Sheepshead Bay and grandparents are in Queens, Cousins are in long island and Jersey ... friends scattered all over the 5 boroughs.

I do miss a lot of people but don't miss alot about the place :winkwink: