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- From: csl@swl.msd.ray.com (Scott Lilliott)
- Subject: Re: FORTUNE magazine profiles Hells Angels
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.125657.13650@swlvx2.msd.ray.com>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:56:57 GMT
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- bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby) writes:
-
-
- >Anyone else see the five page article in FORTUNE
- >magazine (V. 126, No. 12, Nov. 30, 1992) on the
- >business aspects of the Hells Angels motorcycle club?
-
- >Fortune says:
- >
- > The feds believe the Hells Angels and the other
- > large outlaw gangs earn up to $1 billion a year
- > worldwide from drug dealing, prostitution,
- > gunrunning, theft, extortion, and murder.
- > That's far less than La Cosa Nostra, which takes
- > in an estimated $50 billion annually in the U.S.,
- > but the outlaw bike gangs are more vibrant and growing
- > faster.
-
- >What I found most interesting is the structure (according to FORTUNE)
- >of the ride. There's a drawing of a bunch of bikers on the road.
- >The first two are labeled "President" and "Road Captain" then there
- >are a bunch of people in a group labeled "Full color-wearing members"
- >(with the next to the last person named "Sergeant-at-arms") then
- >another group labeled "Probationary members" then a third group
- >labeled "Associates or honorary members" then two final people
- >labeled "Enforcer" and "Assistant Road Captain". A crash truck
- >follows 1 1/2 to 2 miles behind.
-
- >The caption for the drawing says:
-
- > Check you rear view mirror. So-called runs to bike rallies
- > and parties remain a most important ritual for outlaws. The
- > Angels and other clubs impose this strict hierarchical order
- > and map out routes in advance.
-
- >"Mapping out routes in advance" - they make it sound so sinister,
- >yet I do it when I travel any distance whether in a car or on the bike.
-
- >This sounds too structured to me. Anyone have any first hand
- >experience about this. Are the "rides" really that structured?
-
-
- >--
- > Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH 03766
- > bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu
- > I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
- > DoD # 0698
-
- Gee I dunno Brice, We (the nedod) did the same thing this year for our
- FRF leaf-peeping tour - Are we in the same league as these guys? Don't we
- hope to be? :):):)
-
- ... to answer your question, yes I have heard about this structure in the HA.
- Pick up a copy of Hunter S. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" for an in-depth (if not
- warped) view. It's actually a pretty good book.
- S.
- --
- # Scott Lilliott -- csl@swl.msd.ray.com
- # AMA #600897 "Countersteering is like benchracing. A bunch of posers
- # DoD #0227 standing around the parts counter lying about all the
- # INOA #8563 great twisties they've steered through."- Bill Ranck DoD 496
-