<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GArenas @ Jul 26 2007, 09:16 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I've been around DC many times and have heard of MS-13 pretty often, but, I've never seen one of them. Washington, despite being dangerous 10 or so years ago, is pretty safe now.</div>"Welcome to Washington DC, the Chocolate city with a marshmallow core" - Stephen Colbert.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (tHe_pEsTiLeNcE @ Jul 26 2007, 01:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>"Welcome to Washington DC, the Chocolate city with a marshmallow core" - Stephen Colbert.</div> :HAHAHA: :HAHAHA: :HAHAHA: :HAHAHA: :HAHAHA:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AiRuPtHeRe? @ Jul 26 2007, 11:02 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>That is the gayest gang sign I've ever seen.</div>And it's basically the same as "hook 'em horns." Go figure.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GrizzFanTaylor @ Jul 26 2007, 11:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I wonder how they got over there though...</div>They're good swimmers.
Ms13 is brutal. They had a senate or congress meeting about them. I know a guy who is in it, im not friends with hi, or barely talk to him, don't wanna get caught up in that sh*t. They make the bloods and crips look like nothing with the sh*t they do.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SirLaker @ Jul 26 2007, 01:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>It stands for Mara Salvatrucha 13.</div>What does that mean? Is it a name?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Zards @ Jul 26 2007, 04:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What does that mean? Is it a name?</div>I think its like based after a street in LA.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>The Mara Salvatrucha gang originated in Los Angeles [3]. The word "Mara" refers to the Spanish word for "army ant", and "Salvatrucha" which is Spanish slang for "Salvadorian." The gang was set up in Los Angeles in 1972 by Salvadoran immigrants in the Pico-Union section</div>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_Salvatrucha#History
I often wonder why people can't just try and succeeed in life the right way instead of becoming 25 year old doucebags who steal VCRs, carry pocket knives, and tattoo sh*tty tribal symbols on their foreheads. Maybe one day I'll figure it out.
I have actually seen a few guys that look like that just walking around on the streets.. I'm not sure if they are in the gang, but they look real similiar to those guys in the pic.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (dsounG @ Jul 26 2007, 07:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I wonder how they would do against the organized gangs like The Yakuza and sh*t.</div>Well, seeing that MS-13 is now widely considered the most brutal and dangerous gang, and other big gang members have been reported as being scared of them, I think they'd do alright.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GrizzFanTaylor @ Jul 26 2007, 10:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Well, seeing that MS-13 is now widely considered the most brutal and dangerous gang, and other big gang members have been reported as being scared of them, I think they'd do alright.</div> The Yakuza are in Japan, I'm sure they don't fear MS13 at all as they probabely don't even know who they are. It would be interesting to see how MS13 would compare with these widely known gangs in other countires. The Yakuza is really the only organized crime system I've ever heard of out of Japan.
I would just go with ms13 (can't believe we would say who would win lol), just because they are damn brutal. Some members want to leave, but are afraid their family will get killed if they do.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (l?ckdown @ Jul 26 2007, 09:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I would just go with ms13 (can't believe we would say who would win lol), just because they are damn brutal. Some members want to leave, but are afraid their family will get killed if they do.</div>The Yakuza are just as brutal man. Go read up on them and look at what they do when someone rats on them or something...Plus, they're asians and they know how to use Katanas. LMAO!
I know about the yakuza... but in 2004 a bus was jacked by some ms13 guys and they killed everyone in their. 28 died. Then, the guy who planned the attack was hanged in prison... by his own ms13 members.
There's a similar Tongan gang like this called TCG(Tongan Crip Gang). I think that's what it stands for, all I know is most of my tongan friends say that they're grateful that the TCG has not found it's way to Hawaii, because then there'd be some serious problems. I've seen a few kids get mobbed at my school by a few tongan kids, and it ain't fun getting beat down by three or four 6'4" 250lbs. dudes who would rather you bleed to death than anything else, then again I'd rather be killed that way then the stuff that the MS-13 does.
Man I'm lucky I live here in NZ, even if it is the 'rugged' part of the city, it doesn't sound as bad as what you guys got. Most of my friends are Samoan, Tongan or from somewhere from the Pacific Islands. Mostly it's just guys getting into verbal fights and physical stuff in the alleys.Worst thing I've seen myself gang-related is when some dudes were speeding up a main road and did a hit and run on some guy that were wearing red..
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (YarnIdge @ Jul 27 2007, 01:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Man I'm lucky I live here in NZ, even if it is the 'rugged' part of the city, it doesn't sound as bad as what you guys got. Most of my friends are Samoan, Tongan or from somewhere from the Pacific Islands. Mostly it's just guys getting into verbal fights and physical stuff in the alleys.Worst thing I've seen myself gang-related is when some dudes were speeding up a main road and did a hit and run on some guy that were wearing red..</div>I know this is off topic, but what part of NZ is where they filmed "Once We Were Warriors"?? Is that Auckland??
Yeah it was filmed in South Auckland..pretty rugged place to live (at least compared to the rest of the country).
