beagle9
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- Nov 28, 2011
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True story - Had a young feller work for me that looked just like the feller above. He seemed nice enough, and tried, but he had a side to him that was born of his surroundings and things that I guess he was exposed to coming up.
His brother was a criminal thug from hell, and I even tried to help him out when he was a young man, but then he stole from me, and that was that. He ended up in prison eventually.
Ok back to his brother, so then I saw him look to a car that passed on the road when he quickly ran home. I thought hmmmmm. Eventually he came back, but he was acting strange. I asked him what gives ? He then told me that a gang he was affiliated with saw him hanging around a white man, so they went to his house, broke the door open, and trashed it. I thought really !!!
So I asked him "did you call the law" ? He said no because if he did they would come back and hit his place again or get him if they caught him somewhere else.
I thought really !!!!
Anyway, but one day he was standing out in front of the business, and I saw him but he didn't see me right away. I observed him doing some kind of signs with his hands to the passing car's, and then I saw him flipping the passing car's the bird (middle finger). I quickly stopped his actions, and asked him what was he doing, and he said just waving at the passer by's. I told him that he couldn't be giving the middle finger to the cars like that (busted), and that it was time for us to part ways. He said he understood.
Personally I think the gang put him up to it, and may have even threatened his life or family members if he didn't do it. I forgave him, but we didn't cross paths again for a long time. Then one day year's later he actually stopped by and visited me, and he told me how well he was doing, and that he had a good job etc now. I was so proud of him, and shook his hand with a huge smile of hope for him. So he finally broke free from the fear, and that was outstanding to see.
Gang's that are roaming the streets, and are intimidating their communities and their people need to be dealt with by law enforcement, but they don't need to see a revolving door that releases these terrorist back onto the streets in order to terrorize and threaten their own people or other's again.