Blast from the Past
Jul. 8th, 2008 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ickaimpHahahahaha. Hahaha. Ha. ha.
Reading an article on Reuthers about Gangs in Arizona and got a bit of a blast from the past.
-One of the gangs mentioned was 'East Side Torrance'.
From age 4 until I was about 10, I lived in the Harbour Gateway area, which was in the middle of EST territory. Only white family for five blocks in any direction. We moved about 6 months after our house got tagged with 'EST' and someone got beat up on our front lawn.
... To this day, the sound of police helicopters makes me sleepy, cause it was my favourite lullaby as a kid.
Well, it looks like EST has expanded past the east side of Torrance and the Harbour Gateway area of LA and into Southern Arizona. >P Joy.
And co-workers in New Zealand wondered why I laughed when they complained about the 'scary graffiti' done by dumb-shyte kids in the parks. >D
Reading an article on Reuthers about Gangs in Arizona and got a bit of a blast from the past.
-One of the gangs mentioned was 'East Side Torrance'.
From age 4 until I was about 10, I lived in the Harbour Gateway area, which was in the middle of EST territory. Only white family for five blocks in any direction. We moved about 6 months after our house got tagged with 'EST' and someone got beat up on our front lawn.
... To this day, the sound of police helicopters makes me sleepy, cause it was my favourite lullaby as a kid.
Well, it looks like EST has expanded past the east side of Torrance and the Harbour Gateway area of LA and into Southern Arizona. >P Joy.
And co-workers in New Zealand wondered why I laughed when they complained about the 'scary graffiti' done by dumb-shyte kids in the parks. >D
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Date: 2008-07-08 11:59 pm (UTC)Man, I hope they stay away from our area. Where I grew up we didn't have gangs, but we did have waterfront thugs, usually hanging around specific boats (the ones that ran cargos late at night, packed in zip-lock baggies and looking suspiciously like oregano.) You stayed away from their areas; they were sharks. No organized gangs even now, though, for the most part; they're everywhere in places like Miami and Tampa but not much in the PC area.