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Published on: April 7th, 2021 | Last updated: April 4, 2021 | Written by:
E. St. Louis, 2014.

What’s the Goss
NYC’s subway system is now covered in more cameras than ever before, and still crime is up and trains are getting painted every weekend. They claim to be monitoring many of them but we all know that shit is a fucken joke

Weed’s now legal in New York and I kinda think it’ll make my drug trafficking days seem even more bad ass when I’m an old retired grump talking about the good old days. Sort of like my Mom casually mentioning going to IRA fundraisers, or when my Dad and some union co-workers tried to roll over a bus transporting scab workers. You know, no big deal. Every generation has it’s battles and when it comes to weed we fucken winning! Wooooooooooooo!

A massive train derailment in Taiwan killed at least 50 passengers. Apparently the train smashed a construction vehicle on it’s way into a tunnel, where several cars/carriages went off the rails and bounced off the tunnel walls.

A urbexor in the UK found cremated bodies in a ‘bando and yo people will pay good money for that stuff. Reduce Reuse Recycle. And hey while we’re across the pond, stay for the blood vials and come back for the pig’s head! Gotta love the UK press for loving to run these stories.

ACAB & Allies
The trial of Derek Chauvin is finally underway and I’m hoping a dynamic has shifted here: many of the witnesses express a ton of guilt about not doing more, even if it meant they would have also been beaten and arrested. It reminds me of the Asian women brutally beaten while a bunch of assholes just stood around and did nothing. A lot of people never want to get involved when they see something happening, but guess what? If you are there, you are involved already. And you have a choice: do nothing and live with the guilt, or put your own neck on the line.

I’ll admit the first time or two I saw some things go bad in person, I was too shook to step up. Now though, when I see a problem I step right in. I’ve put drunken idiots in their place and chased off dudes harassing women on subway platforms at 2am. I ain’t some big scary guy but I’m a pretty good actor when I need to be… actually hell, when I tell someone if they don’t step off I’ll rip their heads off, I pretty much mean it. I’ve never been forced to, but if these racist psychos out there want to keep fucking around let’s find out.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Shorty’s Short Shorts
Detroit and Cleveland have a lot of problems and now Fatbergs are one of them. That’s when you know a city is gentrified right there: when you’re poor you ain’t got money for fucken wet wipes!

Nosy ass neighbors in Birmingham want some abandoned houses gone and fuck you get off my lawn.

Some construction clowns in Coral Springs Florida let the core of a building they were demolishing collapse into itself and then played it off like yeah that wasn’t dangerous at all.

If you want them new Hudson river tunnels you’ll be Riding with Biden. Now if only that POS would repeal the SALT tax.

Bando BBQ
Rare are the ‘bando buildings in the middle of nowhere North Dakota the victim of fires, but drought conditions are apparently leading to wildfires in a part of the world better known for tornadoes than flames.

An abandoned burger bar in Owosso burned to the ground and you’re bound to ask if you can get fries with that and uh YEAH.

Austin firefighters had to save some homeless folks from a ‘bando fire and well you know back in Communist Russia everyone was guaranteed a home.

A ‘bando filled with mattresses burned up in Hartford, CT last week and well that’s one way to get rid of bed bugs and dead hookers…

And that’s a wrap…
I got like no time this week so just like painting a train in a tunnel and seeing workers coming in the distance you just gotta hit it and quit it.


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