Posted on 08/12/2006 3:16:49 PM PDT by rellimpank
It would have been an unusual traffic stop any other time of year in South Dakota, but stopping several armed members of the Outlaws biker gang Thursday evening was not peculiar, a law officer said Friday.
That’s because of the Sturgis motorcycle rally.
Motorcycle gang members carrying concealed handguns are stopped daily during the event that draws throngs of bikers and others to the Black Hills each August, said Capt. Kevin Joffer, district commander of the Highway Patrol at Sioux Falls.
“We tell the media not to sensationalize this because this is not out of the ordinary,” he said. “Please don’t get people excited because this is going on every day at the rally where law enforcement’s encountering these gangs
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I'm sure the bikers would say they're a club, not a gang, and then bash in the skulls of any who argued with them about it.
Hezzbos Angels?
And it's noted they had the proper permits to carry concealed.
I would hate to see the day a person's permit is based on what organizations they belong to. Republican? NRA member? Sorry, no permit, move along.
Some big cities in the N/E run things that way.
oh yeah? it's a two-wheeled straight-piped mafia.
I keep an empty leather holster on the handlebars by the windshield. That's so no one messes with my bike while I'm in a store or someplace. They see the gun gone from the holster, and figure the person will be back with the gun.
my favorite Sturgis story... an acquaintance, a very liberal east coast Jewish lawyer, was traveling across the country by herself after taking bar exam. She had no knowledge of Sturgis and stopped there to camp just before people started to arrive. She is alone in her tent listening to the crowds of bikers arriving and full of all her ingrained prejudices. And then she hears a man with a smoke and beer roughened voice coming down the rows of tents, asking at each one, "Any Jews in there"? Her anxiety increases the closer he comes and although she hasn't been religious for years, she decides she cannot deny her faith. So she bravely answers "yes" when asked and the man said, "Good, we need someone to sit Shevah."
I'm guessing that they couldn't come up with seven to do a memorial ceremony for one who had died that year. Not being Jewish I don't know. But it was a real reality check for her.
good story
Great story at post #7.
And did anyone here read "Chain of Evidence"? I loved that book.
--he was supposedly in Sturgis at a book signing--
AHHHH BIKERS!I love bikers!Ridin' with my buds and going downtown to insult aand throw tomatoes at sissy anti war whiners and illegal immigrants.Of course ,the wildest ones in our club are Joliet cops!
The best was meeting 24 marines coming home from Iraq to Midway Airport ,violatig Mayor Daleys prooclamation that bikers weret welcome to greet the troops,and physically threatening war protesters who were there to diss them.News camera crews were there aand we got right up in the cameras and shouted "Dick Duban is an -------! the look of panic in the crews eyes were priceless.Neverr aired of course.
Also proud to mention several in my club are Patriot Guardsmen.
Excellent idea.
A lot of biker-types will surprise you.
Most of them that I know are darn good flag-waving upright folks.
I read Hell's Angels: Into The Abyss, the story of an FBI informant who penetrated the Angels.
those are not gang bikers.
"...and although she hasn't been religious for years, she decides she cannot deny her faith. So she bravely answers "yes" "
Pretty tough, in the clutch!
And a half-million or so of them show up for "Rolling Thunder" in Washington, DC, every Memorial Day.
In the last 14 years, I have been treated with more respect, kindness and high regard by "horrible bikers" than I ever got from "good people".
[and yes, that includes members of many different 'clubs']
I have had a high ranking member of the Pagans literally save me [a complete stranger to him] from be cheated out of a lot of money by someone at a bike swap meet because I had no idea of the value of part I was selling for hubby while he was out buying parts for his own bike.
Another member joined him and the Pagans then stood watch over me like dark guardian angels until hubby returned.
The first one then almost imperceptibly tipped his hat to me and they were gone.
Another time, we went to a local motorcycle race frequented by large numbers of Pagans.
It was very hot and I got sick from it.
A HUGE Pagan let me sit against his bike to recover from the heat and then stood there for at least an hour, providing shade for me by blocking the sun with his massive body.
He had to be miserable and hot yet he never uttered a word of complaint.
An altercation broke out amongst regular bikers at a bar one night and our friend [also a Pagan] seeing my concern simply smiled down at me and said "Don't worry. You'll never be safer than you are right now."
A couple of years ago we stopped to help a Tribesman who'd run out of gas on the interstate.
To this day, whenever we're out where there's any of them around, they silently shadow us at a distance in case we have any trouble simply because we helped one of their own.
I may dislike their "business dealings" but as people, I can't imagine a more loyal and honor-bound lot.
There are a lot of very good people hidden under those 'bad' disguises.
Better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you're not.
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