Juggalos classified as a "Gang"!? Come on now... Really?

[carlscomputers]

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/19...alo-gang-label

[Thruster315]

We'd better stop posting here or the Feds are gonna come after the diabolical DetroitYes Gang. They know how wicked we roll in these parts.

[Gannon]

I think this is how the FBI will finally logically chart everyone who believes in an afterlife as a gang member. Or is it the wrestling?! Nah...the Faygo. ICP are pushers...and everyone knows at least one of their addicts.

[kenp]

The Insane DYES Poster Posse.

[jolla]

If you'd like to read the report before commenting, here it is: http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/pu...g%20Trends.pdf

[Meddle]

All I want to know is what took them so long? I'd have put these thugs on the list a long time ago.

[noise]

All I want to know is what took them so long? I'd have put these thugs on the list a long time ago.

Only the obvious ones? How about those undercover "members" who work day jobs as doctors, teachers, and businesspeople?

[Gannon]

The acknowledged best CRT video projector setup and calibration expert a decade ago was the first 'legit' Juggalo I'd ever met...who introduced me to a few others hidden in plain sight, including one of the executives at DTS who included an ICP tune on one of their popular music CD giveaways at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in 2002.

They are as much a gang as Jimmy Buffet's Parrotheads...although there is that persistent rumor about Jimmy being in the CIA...

[Gannon]

Geez, they'd have a field day with me. I actually DRINK the Faygo. The mainline stuff in glass bottles.

I think I even mentioned a tune of theirs in a speaker review back in the day, too. Sure of it, I'll try to track it down.

[Hypestyles]

I wonder will Kid Rock or Eminem speak up on their behalf? Never mind...

Re: fans, on the Fox 2 news piece covering this, they interviewed a local woman.. clearly a fan with the tattoos, has a few kids.. and missing a few teeth.. [[at the risk of speculation, maybe needs to lay off the Faygo)..

[Wheels]

I have never seen them live but a friend who works backstage at the Filmore tells me they shoot 2 liter Faygo's into the crowd at their shows. He has no idea why Live Nation allows it.

Gistok would have them on a short list for sure.

[Shollin]

People still listen to ICP?

[Jimaz]

If you'd like to read the report before commenting, here it is: http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/pu...g%20Trends.pdf

Michigan gangs appearing in that report:

1. 300 Block
2. Aguitas 16
3. Avengers MC
4. Bemis Wealthy Street Boys
5. Black Gangster Disciple
6. Black Pistons MC
7. Brave Heart Ruff Riders
8. BUG Gang
9. Campau Cream Team
10. Cash Ave
11. Crips
12. Dallas Neland Alexander
13. D-Block
14. Devils Brigade
15. Devils Disciples MC
16. Dynasty Gorillas
17. East Ave
18. Eastern Worden
19. Eastside Boys
20. European Latin Kings
21. Folks
22. Forbidden Wheels MC
23. Gangster Disciples
24. Good Squad/Full Time Grinders
25. Grandville Gangsters
26. Highland’s Finest
27. Highwaymen
28. Holland Zeeland
29. Hustle Boys
30. Insane Unknowns
31. Ionia Boys
32. Jefferson Street Gangsters
33. Jokers MC
34. Juggalos
35. Kalamazoo Boys
36. Kartel of the Streets
37. La Kilcka
38. La Raza
39. Latin Counts
40. Latin Kings
41. Leak Boy Mafia
42. Madison Ave
43. Maniac Latin Disciples
44. Mason Street
45. Mexican Gangster Soldiers
46. Mexican Mafia
47. Mexican Mob
48. New Age Crip
49. Ñetas
50. Newman Lane Posse
51. Nishnob Mob
52. North North
53. New World Order
54. Oakdale Eastern
55. Outlaws MC
56. Pine Street
57. Polo Boyz
58. Prospect Paper Chasers
59. Purple Guns
60. Quimby Boys
61. Rebels MC
62. Rikochet Road Knights
63. Nation Royal Trinity Soldiers
64. Sheldon Logan
65. Spanish Cobras
66. Suicide Locos
67. Sur-13’s
68. Sureños
69. Taliban Team
70. Thug Life
71. Tres Manos Gangsters
72. Wanted Thug Brotherhood Nation
73. Vatos Locos
74. Vice Lords
75. Wood street

"Juggalos" appears in lists for some other states too.

[bailey]

I wonder will Kid Rock or Eminem speak up on their behalf? Never mind...

Re: fans, on the Fox 2 news piece covering this, they interviewed a local woman.. clearly a fan with the tattoos, has a few kids.. and missing a few teeth.. [[at the risk of speculation, maybe needs to lay off the Faygo)..

If by "Faygo" you mean "meth"...then yeah...she should lay off the "Faygo".

[Gannon]

That gang listing is merely in alphabetical order. I'd like to see it arranged by danger to themselves or others.

Curious that nobody has the Bloods franchise in town. Thought they always setup across the corner from the Crips, like those national drug stores. It's easier than doing their own market research.

[Shollin]

I watched a program that talked about the 7 Mile bloods. They basically controled the area around Harper Woods in Detroit.

[Wesley Mouch]

The expected result of passing more and more laws and rules is that the government will be more and more involved in your life. RICO laws were likely the start of this 'mission creep'. Soon everything looks like a gang.

[[btw, I have seen Juggalos at their concerts, and there is some 'community inspired' destruction of property and infringement of the rights of others that I have witnessed firsthand -- so while I'm against the 'mission creep', I can understand why the authorities need to classify them as a 'gang'.)

[canuck]

Wow! That's a lot of gangs. Wonder what the Holland Zeeland boys up to. Are they selling bootleg Dutch Girl donuts or what?

[softailrider]

People still listen to ICP?

I'm down with the clown.

[Wheels]

The Detroit Renegades have had their clubhouse on 8 mile near John R since 1965. I guess they are not a gang anymore? Must be under the radar.

[Alley]

People still listen to ICP?

People EVER listened to ICP???

[noise]

People EVER listened to ICP???

No. They've never sold any merchandise or records and they don't have a wildly successful yearly festival. They don't even have an easily identifiable fanbase.

That aside, any negative thoughts I had about them disappeared when they had the Geto Boys play "The Gathering" this year.

[Danny]

Cults can can be gangs, too. Only these leaders need to use Christianity, Islam, Hindu, Jewish to malipulate young people and brainwash them to their level. And 'Viola!'you have instant terrorist organization bent to destroying human civilization and create their own apocalypse.

[Detroitej72]

They are as much a gang as Jimmy Buffet's Parrotheads...although there is that persistent rumor about Jimmy being in the CIA...

I thought the same thing when I heard the report.

I think a more dangerous gang is the ditto heads from AM radio.

[Jimaz]

... I think a more dangerous gang is the ditto heads from AM radio.

LOL! And there's no denying that they're armed.