ckf Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Police outside the Hells Angels NYC club. SOURCE: AP NEW YORK — It's conventional wisdom on a block in Manhattan's East Village that the Hells Angels bikers at a notorious local headquarters there aren't necessarily horrible neighbors — but just don't do anything to disturb the bikes parked outside. A man from upstate New York learned that lesson the hard way earlier this week when he tried to move one of the orange traffic cones the bikers used to hold curbside parking spots. The outsider ended up in the hospital with a gunshot wound, setting off the latest dust up between police and the motorcycle club. With the secretive group refusing to help investigators identify the shooter, patrol officers swept onto the mostly residential block this week and ticketed the tenement building it owns for petty offenses that had previously been ignored: installing an unauthorized bench, planters and a motorcycle ramp on the sidewalk outside the front door. All were removed the same day, with the New York Police Department saying it was merely responding to civilian complaints. And the cones? They were taken, too, tossed into the back of a police cruiser. "I don't know how they got away with the parking thing in the first place," Megan McNally, a 26-year-old paralegal from Brooklyn who once lived in the neighborhood, said a couple of days later as she walked by the club. "And then somebody has to get shot over it?" On this day, six motorcycles — three on each side — were parked in rows in front of the clubhouse, apparently legally. A "No Parking, Except for Authorized Hells Angels" sign remained posted on its red brick facade. Asked about the shooting, three merchants along the block mostly shrugged it off. They said that the Hells Angels kept to themselves and that their claim on one of New York's rarest commodities — parking — had been quietly accepted for years. "It's all about staying away from the bikes," one said. Still, all spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of running afoul of their neighbors at 77 East Third Street. A reporter's knocks on the door went unanswered at the apartment building the Hells Angels have occupied since 1969, an era when the East Village's future as a high-rent district was unthinkable. Over the years, the tattooed, Harley-riding members gained a reputation for being the bullies of the block — hosting rowdy parties, harassing passers-by and clashing with authorities who tried to put it to a stop. In 1985, police raided the clubhouse, making 15 arrests on drug and other charges. The city used the case to try to seize the building in the early 1990s in a federal lawsuit, but a jury sided with the bikers. The Hells Angels countered with their own litigation, accusing police of illegally searching the headquarters in 1999 and again in 2000. The city agreed to settle the lawsuit by paying the club more than $800,000. Any mayhem that crops up these days is typically instigated by people who consider the clubhouse a tourist attraction instead of a private property, said attorney Ron Kuby, who's represented the Hell Angels in multiple cases over the years. Some are "drunk or stupid or drunk and stupid and from out of town," said Kuby, whose latest client is a biker accused of chasing someone down the block with a bat. In the shooting, police say 25-year-old David Martinez, of Spring Valley, was riding with some friends in a Mercedes-Benz at around 1 a.m. Sunday when he got out to move a cone to get through some traffic. After a man believed to be with Hells Angels objected, a street fight broke out between Martinez and other men from the car and bikers, police said. Someone drew a gun and shot Martinez in the stomach, then vanished in what remains an unsolved case. Kuby said any lack of cooperation from the Hells Angels is consistent with their credo of not calling police for help — nor offering any to them. The Hells Angels, he said, "just want to be left alone." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebsell Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Should be open season on these assholes. You see a biker wearing the patch put a bullet in his head 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 2 minutes ago, Ebsell said: Should be open season on these assholes. You see a biker wearing the patch put a bullet in his head Why??!! Just leave them alone and don't mess with their shit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toslow Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 (edited) Should be open season on these assholes. You see a biker wearing the patch put a bullet in his head big talk^^^^ Edited December 16, 2016 by toslow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Probably went somewhat like this: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washedupmxer Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 6 minutes ago, racer254 said: Probably went somewhat like this: good movie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebsell Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Biggest scumbags around are these guys. Fuck them. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Should be open season on dumb maritimers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebsell Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 21 minutes ago, toslow said: big talk^^^^ A good biker war is what's needed. Let these guys thin the ranks down some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebsell Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 1 minute ago, Dave said: Should be open season on dumb maritimers. You would be the first to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Just now, Ebsell said: You would be the first to go Im not a maritimer....i take it you live near a Ha chapter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin_dry Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 2 hours ago, racer254 said: Why??!! Just leave them alone and don't mess with their shit. in other words turn the other way while they distribute meth that makes it's way into high schools? or are you so fucking stupid that you think they make their cash selling lollipops? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bussman Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Just now, spin_dry said: in other words turn the other way while they distribute meth that makes it's way into high schools? or are you so fucking stupid that you think they make their cash selling lollipops? A drunk hipster moved their cone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin_dry Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 1 minute ago, bussman said: A drunk hipster moved their cone. should've been a CC guy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bussman Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 26 minutes ago, spin_dry said: should've been a CC guy Would of been a good show then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 17, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 17, 2016 Fuck bikers and their bullshit. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 11 hours ago, Biggie Smails said: Fuck bikers and their bullshit. That may have been the case many moons ago....but the HA is alot more powerful now then the mafia ever was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 17, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 17, 2016 1 hour ago, Dave said: That may have been the case many moons ago....but the HA is alot more powerful now then the mafia ever was. Bullshit....I will grant you that the mafia seems a shell of its former self today but in it's heyday it made the HA look like a brownie troop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 15 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said: Bullshit....I will grant you that the mafia seems a shell of its former self today but in it's heyday it made the HA look like a brownie troop. You're entitled to your opinion...but its wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member Kivalo Posted December 17, 2016 Gold Member Share Posted December 17, 2016 Just saw a bunch of dirtbag bikers taking donations for toys-for-tots at an intersection in New Bedford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sledderj Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 4 minutes ago, Kivalo said: Just saw a bunch of dirtbag bikers taking donations for toys-for-tots at an intersection in New Bedford. They like to try and play the PR game. Funny how many people give them a pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 10 minutes ago, sledderj said: They like to try and play the PR game. Funny how many people give them a pass. They are no different then the government in many ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiSledder Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 16 hours ago, Biggie Smails said: Fuck bikers and their bullshit. One of my favorite movies but Sonny was just as criminal as those bikers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 40 minutes ago, MiSledder said: One of my favorite movies but Sonny was just as criminal as those bikers Almost as criminal as the Clintons... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racer254 Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 On 12/16/2016 at 5:19 PM, spin_dry said: in other words turn the other way while they distribute meth that makes it's way into high schools? or are you so fucking stupid that you think they make their cash selling lollipops? Yeah. Well, you're not the brightest bulb on the tree. Those drunk hipsters weren't tying to stop the distribution of meth dumb ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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