Biker Brawl in Waco Leaves 9 Dead

[Nice Squirrel]

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/18/us/texas-biker-gang-brawl-shooting/index.html

Even before the melee that left nine dead began, police were already in place, expecting a ruckus.

What they saw was far more brutal than what they had anticipated.

Rival biker gangs unleashed a hailstorm of bullets outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, Texas, leaving nine people dead and at least 17 hospitalized.

"In my nearly 35 years of law enforcement experience, this is the most violent and gruesome scene that I have dealt with," Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.

 

[Valjean]

I have a lot of questions about this incident. Drawing conclusions at this stage of speculative sensationalism is premature.

 

[braces_for_impact]

Them Texans, always playin' shoot 'em up at the OK corral.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Oh, BIKERS!

At first glance, my brain read that as BAKER brawl, 9 dead. Well, I know how I get if the party upstairs makes my soufflé fall....

 

[Nice Squirrel]

I wonder what Al Sharpton thinks of this and why he hasn't fixed the biker culture.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Thug lifers.

 

[TSwizzle]

Good grief, most of the bikers appear to be fat, middle aged assholes.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Good grief, most of the bikers appear to be fat, middle aged assholes.

That is their prime demographic. There are going to be a lot of nice cheap Harleys on the market once they start dying off.

 

[Bronzeage]

So much for the idea that an armed society is a polite society.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

So much for the idea that an armed society is a polite society.

Now I might be stereotyping, but an armed, alcohol-and-meth fueled society is our society.

 

[Bronzeage]

So much for the idea that an armed society is a polite society.

Now I might be stereotyping, but an armed, alcohol-and-meth fueled society is our society.

The meeting was called to settle a "turf dispute." What sort of turf does a motorcycle gang have? It's not an argument over who gives the next Tupperware party.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Now I might be stereotyping, but an armed, alcohol-and-meth fueled society is our society.

The meeting was called to settle a "turf dispute." What sort of turf does a motorcycle gang have? It's not an argument over who gives the next Tupperware party.

Meth? Or the stale, world-weary woman they call, "Shoe Leather".

 

[TSwizzle]

It's almost cartoonish. "The Bandidos" fat, middled aged jerks having a mid life crisis and acting out like adolescent punks. Get a life, bunch of sad sacks.

 

[barbos]

Finally we see some white-on-white gun violence to balance black-on-black one.

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what biker gangs were they from anyway?

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Finally we see some white-on-white gun violence to balance black-on-black one.

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what biker gangs were they from anyway?

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/05/the-texas-biker-gang-massacre/393500/

Bandidos.

 

[barbos]

Bandidos versus Cossacks. Never heard about Cossacks, I mean biker gangs (not russian Cossacks).

 

[Rhea]

The news coverage of this versus the Baltimore protests is very interesting.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Now I might be stereotyping, but an armed, alcohol-and-meth fueled society is our society.

The meeting was called to settle a "turf dispute." What sort of turf does a motorcycle gang have? It's not an argument over who gives the next Tupperware party.

At least that makes it awfully easy to charge the survivors.

 

[Bronzeage]

It's almost cartoonish. "The Bandidos" fat, middled aged jerks having a mid life crisis and acting out like adolescent punks. Get a life, bunch of sad sacks.

I wish it was that simple. What they are fighting over is who gets to sell meth amphetamine in what areas. It's not an argument over who has the longest handlebars. This is some of the most violent organized criminal enterprises in the country. A tremendous amount of money is at stake.

 

[dismal]

The news coverage of this versus the Baltimore protests is very interesting.

What do you mean?

No one squealing about how most of the bikers were peaceful?