Friday, October 4, 2013

More about the gangsters follows.

From the Village Voice Blog:
“Public sympathy isn't on their side: Many of the comments on the videos call the riders "terrorists," use a variety of racial and homophobic slurs, and suggest they should be raped in prison until they die.
Almost all of the comments refer to the West Side Highway attack. "These people are all terrorists," writes one viewer. Referring to Mieses, he adds, " He is the douchebag that got ran over and put in a wheelchair thank God for justice."
Earlier this morning, Metro New York noted that a now-deleted Hollywood Stuntz website was registered by Jamie Lao of Ozone Park, through a company called Joker Web Hosting. Cached versions of the page lead to a still-active, albeit private Myspace profile belonging to Lao, as well as a Hollywood Stuntz Twitter, which has been set to private as well. A Facebook page has been deleted.
On the Hollywood Stuntz page, the author doesn't identify himself as Lao, but says he goes by "Hollywood," and says he's a Puerto Rican freestyle motorcycle rider from Brooklyn. His bio, which appears to have been written in 2009 or 2010, also reads, in part:
People know me most for putting together one of the sickest street rides in the U.S, with people from all over the U.S and even as far as Japan making the trip to N.Y. The ride is called "Hollywood's Block Party" clips of this ride can be found all over youtube. I am working on making this ride bigger and better every year, so far its working. I will continue to do Stunt shows, Music Videos, and my street rides for as long as I can.
The video above is a related crew of riders, this time going by the name Block Starz. It's listed on the Hollywood Stuntz page as one of their rides. The Block Starz logo is nearly identical to that on the Hollywood Stuntz page, and the video also showcases a logo for Skunk Clothing, which the Hollywood Stuntz page author lists as one of his sponsors.
One of the riders in that video, it's worth noting, is wearing a conical Asian hat and a super-creepy mask. Here's a screenshot, for your nightmares. It's around the 50-second mark. “


“Although many of the Hollywood Stuntz members appear to be black, a video of a block party from this time last year shows they also have some white members. The YouTube hive mind has plenty of thoughts on that too: "i thought hollywood cuntz party was only spooks and beaners.,...white trash too? no surprise really! word!!!"”
(I wonder what the word “beaners” refers to.)

Away from the gang bangers for now. I despise such people, but they are here to stay in our society. Some people say we have too much freedom. Maybe they're right in some cases. The police did make a number of arrests at their roadblocks, and confiscated some 50 motorbikes, and they are trying to get a strong case against them. I hope they investigate them under RICO and prosecute them for racketeering. Those charges of “reckless driving” just don't capture the situation that occurred.

Eileen said she will give me her printer because she never uses it. She only uses her computer for the Intenet. It's a Kodak. I didn't know they made printers. She said it is ink jet and not dot matrix. I wonder if dot matrix printers are still being produced. She said she would come up. She's overdue, though, so I'll call her.

Well, it turns out that she told me tomorrow, so I'll just go back to my reading.