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Gangs on the Internet

mikesd81 writes "Apparently street gangs have gotten Web-savvy. Web Bangers are posting potentially incriminating photos and taunts on their websites. Police departments suddenly faced with gangs are looking for help on the gangs' own easy-to-find Web sites. The director of the National Gang Crime Research Center has stated "In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language.' Knox said it's important for police to learn how to read between the lines on gang Web sites and blogs. Just as time on the streets has given gang investigators the ability to read the hieroglyphics of wall graffiti, time on the Web helps them understand arcane Web clues. Gang identifiers, such as tattoos, graffiti tags, colors and clothing often are embedded in each site."

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  1. Gangsters use MySpace by aymanh · · Score: 5, Funny
    The tendency for gang members to brag about their exploits on Web pages such as the popular networking site Myspace.com has in some cases helped investigators make arrests.
    Are you telling me that future versions of GTA will involve browsing and posting to MySpace?!

    Nooooo!
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    1. Re:Gangsters use MySpace by James+McGuigan · · Score: 3, Funny

      It would be more like eXistenZ, posting to your blog from within a MMORPG subgame of GTA running on a virtual linux machine, that is being simulated within the holodeck of the Starship Enterprise that in turn is...

  2. 1337 gangsta... by a_greer2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got a bewolf cluster of guns, cross me and I will pop a cap in your boxen!

    1. Re:1337 gangsta... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Surely it's time to bust out some MC Plus+

      I got mad hoes and I got mad bitches
      I'm coding in C and I branch with switches
      Java programming and C++
      I program high homie, pass the dutch

  3. Oh no! by Bogtha · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long until gangbangr.com 2.0 websites talking about the gangosphere?

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  4. Gangster Help Wanted Ad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looking for a G with html and 187 skillz

    1. Re:Gangster Help Wanted Ad by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...and in the same newspaper:

      In other news, a cyber turf war was sparked today when the MySpace Crips DDOSed the Geocities Bloods. The Bloods retaliated by hacking the Crips website to say "Eastside is t3h sUx0r"...

  5. those evil Wiccans by coshx · · Score: 5, Funny

    In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida [sic], witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language.

    I'm sorry, but comparing witches to Al-Quaeda is a bit of an ad absurdum. We all know witches are more powerful, which is why we dealt with these terrorists in the 1600's, and did not not deal with the latter terrorists in the 1980's when we could have.

    1. Re:those evil Wiccans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      For tread the Circle thrice about to keep unwelcome spirits out.


      My dog does that one before she lays down. She also drags her ass on the ground for no apparent reason; is that a Wiccan thing?

    2. Re:those evil Wiccans by AltGrendel · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, it means that your dog has worms. Get it to a vet.

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    3. Re:those evil Wiccans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "...the Horned One rules..."

      the new Dodge Ram?

    4. Re:those evil Wiccans by carn1fex · · Score: 2, Funny
      I agree! Poor wiccans, what harm can they do? It should have read something like this:

      "In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, DDR players, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language."

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  6. Personal Experience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I got shot for wearing that Windows teal blue shade.... possibly may not have been gang related however.

  7. "Your arm is missing!" by 10Ghz · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Web Bangers are posting potentially incriminating photos and taunts on their websites."

    You don't frighten us, Crips pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

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  8. Tagging by writermike · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, so this is why there's so much "tagging" on the Internets nowadays.

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  9. Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs by mdobossy · · Score: 3, Funny

    No no no...

    They mean the kind of witches with wart covered noses, flying brooms, and bubbling cauldrons..

  10. Witches? by ben0207 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language."

    Witches? Devil-worshippers?

    Is this from the Nation Gun Crime Research Centre or the Ordo Hereticus?

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  11. You ALMOST had me by Opportunist · · Score: 2, Funny

    You almost made sense, Mr. NGCRC. Until the line In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to know their own language.

    Then I knew you're a loonie.

    Witches? Hello? Could you join us in the 21st century? If people want to believe in witchcraft, so be it. It's not like they mount their brooms and fly off to some mountain anymore. That's the fad of the past, it's been over for like 400 years by now.

    No wonder that they spend their time puzzling what those tags could mean. I mean, if you can't get a clue after 400 years when it's hit you with a broomstick... MAN, some people are slow!

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    1. Re:You ALMOST had me by geoffspear · · Score: 3, Funny

      You're so naive.

      Everyone knows that devil worship and witchcraft increase by orders of magnitude every time a new Harry Potter book or movie is released. Why do you hate Jesus?

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  12. Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs by linvir · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, if you're such a peaceful bunch, you've got nothing to fear from their god, now have you?

  13. Secret handshakes... by Flaming+Babies · · Score: 5, Funny
    Knox and others fear gangs are using the Internet to recruit new members, who can be influenced by the secret handshakes
    Secret handshakes?
    Seriously...secret handshakes?
    That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
    "Yeah man...those 18th street guys are badass. They have secret handshakes and everything..."
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    1. Re:Secret handshakes... by rlp · · Score: 4, Funny

      Knox and others fear gangs are using the Internet to recruit new members, who can be influenced by the secret handshakes

      You mean stuff like 'HELO', 'GET', and 'POST' secured by SSL.

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  14. Shocking by linvir · · Score: 5, Funny
    In order to understand any subculture, be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippers or gangs
    They left out communists and paedophiles! The fools!
  15. Gangs on tha internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, mikesd81, you got it all wrong. You meant to say:

    "Apparently street gangs have gotten Web-savvy in all flavas. Web Hustla is post'n potentially weed-smokin' photos n taunts on they websites. Police departments suddenly faced gangs is look'n fo` help on tha gangs own easy-to-find Web sites. The director of tha National Gizzay Crime Research Cracka has stated "In gangsta ta understand any subcultizzles be it al-Qaida, witches, devil worshippa or gangs, you have ta be able ta know they own language fo' sheezy. Knox said its important fo` po-po ta learn how ta read between tha lines on giznang Web sites n blogs ta help you tap dat ass. J-to-tha-izzust as tizzle on tha streets has given G-to-tha-izzang investizzles tha ability ta read tha hierizzles of wizzle graffiti, tizzy on tha Web helps tizzy understand arcane Web clues . Nigga get shut up or get wet up. G-to-tha-izzang motherfucka such as tattoos, graffiti tizzags, colors n cloth'n often is embedded in each site."

    (Thanks to gizoogle!)

  16. Re:Broken Windows Gang by rbarreira · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny, I work at Microsoft and a window in my office got broken today (yes, there were jokes about it)...

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  17. Bad Grammer by protobion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Police departments suddenly faced gangs are looking for help on the gangs' own easy-to-find Web sites.
    What the hell does that mean?

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    1. Re:Bad Grammer by sprudel · · Score: 2, Funny

      It looks like some kind of hidden message, possibly about freemasonry.

  18. Coming this Fall . . . by SvetBeard · · Score: 5, Funny

    A new addition to the Law and Order family: Law and Order: Gangs Unit. Watch Ice T surf myspace for an hour. Every mouse click is accompanied by a "Doom Doom."
    It's must see TV!

  19. Re:Broken Windows Gang by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny, I work at Microsoft and a window in my office got broken today (yes, there were jokes about it)...

    That is funny.

    Did you put up a blue tarp to cover the screen?

    Press any key to continue.

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  20. DKP? by hpavc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are there any good gangs in my timezone that use DKP?

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  21. better analogy? by Dr_Bootygrabber · · Score: 3, Funny

    'Oh, yeah, about those Crusades: many, many, centuries ago, my li'l crystal polisher. Better analogy would have been, "Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here. We don't crash airplanes into someone else's building in the name of our goddess..." oooooh, i'm gonna get modded down so-o-o-o-o fast.....!' how's this one: ""Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here; we don't spend billions of dollars to shelter thousands of child molesters from justice" or "Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here; we don't tell an entire continent riddled with HIV to not use condoms" or ""Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here; we don't take taxpayers money and give it to fundamentalists" or "Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here; we don't gloat over the destruction of a city saying they had it coming for being wicked" or "Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here; we don't think the world is going to end any minute in a blazing mess of fire but that's ok cause Jesus is going to miracle me up to the sky before I can get crisped" or "Hello... peaceful earth-based religion here; at least we understand that Jesus was a liberal Jew who had much more in common with Abby Hoffman than G.W.Bush" this is pretty fun actually! I love the "modded down" part too. The "wow, playing the persecuted christian card is so politically incorrect" is awesome! Do it again!

  22. Yeah, I can just see it by Moraelin · · Score: 4, Funny

    GTA: Web Banger

    In which you play the role of a pale pimple-faced nerd with an inhaler, posing as a big bad nigga online. Spend days photoshopping a grand theft auto or grafitti, instead of actually doing it. Brag about your bad-mofo inner-city gangsta exploits, from the safety of your parents' basement in the suburbs. Spend hours playing CS and GTA while listening to wannabe wigger rappers, as material for those bad-mofo gangsta stories. Throw in some porn late at night, after your parents went to sleep, as material for some gangland rape story. Spend a couple of days trying to get the Audigy 2 you got for your birthday to make you sound like a bad-mofo gangsta on voice chat, then give up and revert to typing pseudo-ebonics. Etc.

    Yup, the high-tech law-breakin' game of the future. I can just see it.

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  23. Re:Not a gang but.. by Jakhel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here is the person identified on the tape as sucker punching Jihad:

    http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/inquirer/sports/14 401704.htm?source=rss&channel=inquirer_sports

    I personally don't think a sucker punch is worth someone's life, but that's me.. and I'm not "from the streets". :|

  24. Re:Al Queda, witches, devil worshippers, and gangs by Johnny5000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "fought wars, took slaves and slaughtered civilians and in all that thought the gods were backing them"

    Replace slaves with captives held without reason or trial

    and how is this diffrent than the current US Administration?


    Replace "wars" with "grandpa," "slaves" with "naps" and "slaughtered civilians" with "baked cookies"
    and how is that different from my grandma?

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  25. If you a bitch and you wanna step by haagmm · · Score: 3, Funny

    against these CS Gangsters it EOF

  26. What does this mean? by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Police departments suddenly faced gangs are looking for help on the gangs' own easy-to-find Web sites."
    What does this mean?
    What the heck does this mean?
    I don't even know what the heck this means.
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