The Pride of Baltimore… Pay up or we’ll shoot.

[LeftofLeft]

It used to be Italian and/or Irish thugs might muscle in on a movie set in a big city and threaten labor or union problems to get money from movie producers. Not modern-day Baltimore. The drug dealers threaten to shoot up the set for their ransom. Says a lot about Baltimore these days.

Baltimore crew flees 'Lady in the Lake' set after shooting, extortion threats from drug dealers: report

A crew member working on the set of "Lady in the Lake," an upcoming Apple TV+ show being filmed in Baltimore, was forced to flee a set after being threatened, reports say.

www.foxnews.com

 

[JGalt]

It used to be Italian and/or Irish thugs might muscle in on a movie set in a big city and threaten labor or union problems to get money from movie producers. Not modern-day Baltimore. The drug dealers threaten to shoot up the set for their ransom. Says a lot about Baltimore these days.

Baltimore crew flees 'Lady in the Lake' set after shooting, extortion threats from drug dealers: report

A crew member working on the set of "Lady in the Lake," an upcoming Apple TV+ show being filmed in Baltimore, was forced to flee a set after being threatened, reports say.

www.foxnews.com

Yutes or "teens"?

 

[LeftofLeft]

Yutes or "teens"?

Not sure the age group. Regardless of age group, I’d hate to be the one trying to drive Baltimore tourism and economic development. In both cases, tourists need to worried about getting your ass shot off; ironically, in one of the cities with the strictest gun laws in the nation.

 

[Auld Phart]

what do you expect after a mayor gave rioters free reign to burn down blocks of the city a couple of years back.

Thugs rule the city, with elected politicians permission.

 

[B. Kidd]

what do you expect after a mayor gave rioters free reign to burn down blocks of the city a couple of years back.

Thugs rule the city, with elected politicians permission.

They got the idea from Venezuela.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The cartels are in control.

 

[Concerned American]

It used to be Italian and/or Irish thugs might muscle in on a movie set in a big city and threaten labor or union problems to get money from movie producers. Not modern-day Baltimore. The drug dealers threaten to shoot up the set for their ransom. Says a lot about Baltimore these days.

Baltimore crew flees 'Lady in the Lake' set after shooting, extortion threats from drug dealers: report

A crew member working on the set of "Lady in the Lake," an upcoming Apple TV+ show being filmed in Baltimore, was forced to flee a set after being threatened, reports say.

www.foxnews.com

Well at least Baltimore is using local thugs to make the threats. In NM, the actors take the action into their own hands--ask Alec Baldwin.