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Post by 32Green on Jul 14, 2017 18:23:22 GMT -5
Went to spend a month in Ireland with family in June. Right before we left, Berkowitz shot two kids in a car near Elephas Disco on Northern Blvd, just blocks from my house. Then, in Ireland, we watched the Blackout chaos unfold on TV, I remember my parents giving knowing, frightened looks to eachother as more footage of the rioting and looting appeared on the screen. I remember "Jesus, Mary and Joseph" being whispered softly over and over again by the assembled Irish cousins and my parents. We had no idea if our home would be there when we got back ( though our area remained generally unscathed as it turned out.) Years later, I would work with cops who lived through it. They told tales of Going into work wearing only a Uniform shirt and jeans, armed with Helmets, shotguns (their own), ax handles and chains....they battled for days, with Police trucks driving around distributing ammo to whatever cops they ran into, throwing it out the back. Very apocalyptic time to be 14 years old. The world didnt seem to offer much hope or a future... and then I found out my sister got her pussy grabbed near Sands Point by a babbling lunatic. Rich dude summering for a month in the U.K. And folks call me a snob. _ U.K.? Why you diminutive dimwit. Wait til I bend down and get my hands on you.
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Post by JStokes on Jul 14, 2017 18:31:08 GMT -5
Rich dude summering for a month in the U.K. And folks call me a snob. _ U.K.? Why you diminutive dimwit. Wait til I bend down and get my hands on you. I stopped listening in 1921. Ingrates. _
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Post by shakin on Jul 14, 2017 18:32:43 GMT -5
this was the summer me and my buddy started drink running for the goombahs at their poker nights in south merrick. if you think brooklyn was the home of the mobbed up guys back then, it had nothing on the supposedly "jewish" south shore towns of bellmore/merrick. these fucks had castles popping up between suburban houses down south of merrick road. my pops was loosely related to some of these non-gindo but still connected wiseguys. anyhoo it was around this blackout that a couple of hangers on around the card games disappeared. fast forward 30 years later and they started digging up corpses under a body shop in brooklyn and out in an industrial area in farmingdale and they found those two mooks' corpses. one of them was 100 yards from the ad agency i was working at at the time.
circle of life
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Post by porgyman on Jul 14, 2017 19:40:19 GMT -5
How long was this blackout? 2 days. July 13-14.
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Post by 32Green on Jul 14, 2017 19:54:35 GMT -5
How ironic and sad that no one even has the balls to say stuff like that now...even as similar things have occurred in the last few years..40 years later? Who loves these kids now?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 20:50:09 GMT -5
That was indeed the Summer of Sam. Crazy times ON Long Island. _ Went to spend a month in Ireland with family in June. Right before we left, Berkowitz shot two kids in a car near Elephas Disco on Northern Blvd, just blocks from my house. Then, in Ireland, we watched the Blackout chaos unfold on TV, I remember my parents giving knowing, frightened looks to eachother as more footage of the rioting and looting appeared on the screen. I remember "Jesus, Mary and Joseph" being whispered softly over and over again by the assembled Irish cousins and my parents. We had no idea if our home would be there when we got back ( though our area remained generally unscathed as it turned out.) Years later, I would work with cops who lived through it. They told tales of Going into work wearing only a Uniform shirt and jeans, armed with Helmets, shotguns (their own), ax handles and chains....they battled for days, with Police trucks driving around distributing ammo to whatever cops they ran into, throwing it out the back. Very apocalyptic time to be 14 years old. The world didnt seem to offer much hope or a future... and then I found out my sister got her pussy grabbed near Sands Point by a babbling lunatic. lmao I loved this post even before I got to the stellar payoff. Thanks for picking up the tone! You're my Zimmy Breslin. props
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Post by JStokes on Jul 14, 2017 20:55:18 GMT -5
How ironic and sad that no one even has the balls to say stuff like that now...even as similar things have occurred in the last few years..40 years later? Who loves these kids now? To be fair, Bill Cosby was railing against the path young African Americans were taking. You know. Until. _
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 20:58:16 GMT -5
How ironic and sad that no one even has the balls to say stuff like that now...even as similar things have occurred in the last few years..40 years later? Who loves these kids now? You know, thinking, the NYC bankruptcy really hurt, since there was little money (but a lot of will) to address the concerns of the comunity...you came on line with NYPD during the wildings in CP and Broadway, yes? You were on the front lines of the mess. How you aren't a bitter man is beyond me.
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Post by shakin on Jul 14, 2017 21:02:39 GMT -5
How ironic and sad that no one even has the balls to say stuff like that now...even as similar things have occurred in the last few years..40 years later? Who loves these kids now? How you aren't a bitter man is beyond me. lol do you live in a cave? common lolol
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 21:07:16 GMT -5
sheeeit
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Post by 32Green on Jul 14, 2017 21:11:43 GMT -5
How you aren't a bitter man is beyond me. lol do you live in a cave? common lolol Ha ha...even I know I'm a bitter old grump. I think WCO was being ironic, lolz
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2017 21:14:29 GMT -5
I heard it was your birthday.
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Post by Big L on Jul 14, 2017 21:20:47 GMT -5
How long was this blackout? 2 days. July 13-14. No, I meant how far were you sitting from the blackout?
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Post by 32Green on Jul 14, 2017 22:01:03 GMT -5
No, I meant how far were you sitting from the blackout? A Rabbi, a Priest and the Blackout walked into a bar. The Bartender says what'll ya have, gents? The Priest says "oh, just a little Holy water, I'm on duty, lol". The Rabbi says "Vodka, but not the expensive one, why waste money". The Blackout says "GIMME EVERYTHING MUTHERFUCKER" and wrecks the place.
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Post by shakin on Jul 14, 2017 22:02:55 GMT -5
No, I meant how far were you sitting from the blackout? A Rabbi, a Priest and the Blackout walked into a bar. The Bartender says what'll ya have, gents? The Priest says "oh, just a little Holy water, I'm on duty, lol". The Rabbi says "Vodka, but not the expensive one, why waste money". The Blackout says "GIMME EVERYTHING MUTHERFUCKER" and wrecks the place. anti semitism reported just wait til ragu gets out of jail
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