by runner_dude Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:55 pm
Rant: The Gangs in my city.
Ok, so Halifax is a pretty nice city, and I feel safe 99% of the time. But sadly we have the highest rate of violent crime per capita in Canada (and maybe North America). It is all caused by two feuding families, the Marriots and the Melvins. They both want to control the drug trade in our fine city. It all started back in 2006, when there was a rash of drive-bys and firebombings etc. Then the police finally caught the main guy, Jimmy Melvin Jr. after he was on the run for six weeks. They even had him in custody a couple counties over but he managed to convince them that he was someone else, so they let him go. After they finally caught him, he went in jail for a few years, but got out in november. Since then, there was another round of tit-for-tat shootings, including the Melvins shooting up the local pizza joint owned by the Marriots, and in the most disgusting incident, one of the Melvin Associates was shot in the waiting room of
The Children's Hospital!. A few weeks later Jimmy Melvin Jr. was shot a few times at his house, and then things calmed down for a bit. Then a couple days ago the police conducted a huge raid and arrested 15 or so of the men. They seized Cocaine, E, Marajuana, a shitload of cash and some AK-47s and other weapons.
Luckily they're charged with a whole bunch of stuff, ranging from attempted murder to racketeering and aiding and abbeting a crime.
What we really need is the Hell's Angels back. Nobody used to fuck around when they were here, now they're gone every petty criminal and thier grandmother wants to get into the drug buisness.