Random Strangers Hunted, Slashed With Razor Blades For Gang Initiations – Orlando News Story – WKMG Orlando — Cripes, what next?
Investigators said a gang in Flagler County is sending its future members to Daytona Beach to seek out victims to cut. Once a gang recruit slashes a stranger, he gains the respect of his peers and is inducted into their underground society, police told Local 6s Tarik Minor.
The latest victims have prompted a warning to the community from police. “It could be anybody they see,” Daytona Beach police Sgt. Bill Walden said. “In both incidents, it was just someone walking down the road, taken by surprise.”
Yeah great idea, go around acting like a knob to be instituted into a bigger group of knobs.
“But these guys will say i’m cool and let me hang with them if i go and slash someone with a razor blade”
Well whoop-de-f&*%ing-doo! Aern’t you the genius? Gangs aern’t cool, period. If only we could get the general populace beliving that.
These cases are a real challenge to constitutional aclu types like myself.
I’ll do my best not to think about it, but until saner heads offer their good thoughts, I’ll go with “shoot on sight.”
What’s the name of this gang? The Gillettes?
Easy solution:
Concealed/Carry permit.
You bring a knife to a gun-fight, you get what you deserve.
It all makes Clockwork Orange look like nothing
I’d definitely pop a cap in their ass.
In the city where I live (Minneapolis) we seem to hear about a “random” gang killing every few years. The story always claims that the killing is rumored to be part of an initiation. The public goes ballistic. And invariably, a few days later, we find out it wasn’t a random attack or a gang initiation, but some sort of personal vendetta.
I’m certainly not saying these Florida attacks weren’t random and gang-related; just that it’s a good idea to wait a bit until all the facts are in.
#5–Clock==Clockwork Orange is all about something totally different. So, ever read the book?
Totally different?
Razor Gang: a potential gang member who slices random strangers.
Clockwork Orange: a gang (droogs) who enjoy beating random strangers.
#9–jbenson==you have identified the main characters (in a way) now–what is clockwork orange “about?” What is the theme? What is the idea that motivates the plot and character development?
Summary executions would take care of these thugs.
Just when you thought it was getting safe in Daytona. They’re building million dollar condos and such to get rid of the crime and it seems to just not be working. Maybe I shouldn’t go to my property there this summer. Might just be safer to stay in my ritzy suburb.
Perhaps bobbo will join this gang then I can pop a cap in his ass, all while singing in the rain and tap dancing with a funny hat.
#13
Be sure and recite the social significance of the movie Clockwork Orange as pertaining to the theme, plot motivation and character development while pummeling him into a bloody pulp. Thats what I do.
#13-Pirate, #14–Alex==No idea huh? Such a vacuum can be filled by many things. Work, religion, music, violence.
But that is only a small part of ClockWork. Read it. Excellent book. Movie pretty good but even good movies don’t come close to a good book.
And people wonder why I carry my pistol.
bobbo, I prefer audiobooks. Don’t have much time for reading.
#10 – The freedom of choice and the rehabilitating form of corrections encase the realm of A Clockwork Orange. It produces the question about man’s free will and the ability to choose one’s destiny, good or evil.
If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange – meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with color and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or State.
Man can not be completely good or evil and must have both in order to create a moral choice. The book deals upon reforming a criminal with only good morals and conditioning an automated response to evil.
#17–jbenson==excellent work. Gives me the warm fuzzies.
Not at all about initiation rites of young wanna be’s.
Thanks.
#16–macguy==its all good. I assume though that you are doing something else while listening? Still better than nothing, but a total immersion is different than a casual toe dip.
Try it. Take an audio book you liked and take the time to actually read the written word in isolation.
Compare, Contrast, Conclude.
These have a tendency to turn into urban legends, but Concealed Carry is still my choice….
Time to put some chlorine in the gene pool….
Regards,
Stu.
#19==bobbo the Troll
… Compare, Contrast, Conclude, Fail.
Fixed it for ya!
#21–Pirate==Failing? How so?
What? No BS meter on this story? It has all the hallmarks of urban myth.
#23–Greg==what are those hallmarks? I see stories like this all the time. Different gangs, cities, rites. If they are not all myths, what makes this one different at all?
Quick search on SNOPES came up with the ‘buck fifty’ myth, based in New Jersey
http://tinyurl.com/4ymhkg
Could be a ‘spin off’ from that.
J/P=?
#25–Yes J/P==but I’ve seen reports of arrests made of kids hiding in the back seat of cars waiting to rob/rape/kill women motorists as part of inititation into a gang.
I’ve seen documentaries on prison gangs where certain tats show how you jumped into the gang–etc.
These stories are all about anti-social violence for completely vile reasons and you can’t tell real from false. That’s why I’m wondering what “Hallmarks” were present. Always anxious to learn something.
This stinks to high-heaven of Urban Myth.
It sounds EXACTLY like the urban myth of gang members getting initiated by flashing their brights at oncoming cars. Who ever flashed back gets shot dead by the wannabe gangbanger, who is then accepted.
This is crap John. Another urban myth in the wild.
Mister Bobbolina, I think you need a hobby. Jeez, badgering posters for the philosophical and epistemological foundations of A Clockwork Orange?? Bless my buttons.
I see more similarities than differences between ACO and the gang slashings. No one has yet written a Cliff Notes summary of the gang slashings, and they hasn’t been studied in thousands of English Literature departments all over the world. I’ll bet if somebody wrote a book about it though, it would read like a gritty urban-Florida version of ACO.
#28–Mustard==THIS is my hobby, among several others. Badgering==coaxing==challenging==fail? Too many variables.
How can I fail to respond to commentary on what I consider to be one of the top 10 books ever written? Yes, hard to discuss with bozo’z who haven’t read 10 books in total, but the alternative is arguing with myself.
No–a cliff notes of the gang slashing would be an epistle to meaninglessness. Not so ACO.
So, what are you having for breakfast?
I dunno, Bobster. I still see more similarities than differences, if you just consider the observable actions, rather than what latter-day pundits imagine Anthony Burgess had in mind.
Guess I’ll be having John McCann’s Steel-Cut Irish Oatmeal for breakfast. I’m kind of keen on having some arepas ( http://tinyurl.com/6nu4ju ), but they’re too much hassle to make.