Guest FEARLESSANDTRUE Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Dawson Gang? Yep Damn, you caught me and I was just about to deny it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjenkins 0 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Can you clue me in to this Dawson Gang? Never heard of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telling tiger 156 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 We are going to chill here, T's, kids and us. Grill, drink, music and maybe some late afternoon pool. Kids are working on some stuff and prepping to get back to work. The break was too long they are getting restless Working hard though. What are you peoples doing? Going to mom/dad's? Dawson Gang? Yep Damn, you caught me and I was just about to deny it too joking about you catching me when you said "more like 5 seconds". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
around4ever 4,139 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Can you clue me in to this Dawson Gang? Never heard of them Hogan's Heroes?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telling tiger 156 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Dawson's= Extreme North Alabama organized "hilljackish" crime crew. Drugs, girls, liquor, gambling, strong arm, violence and there is much more I'm sure. That is going from a base memory, it has been a while. They were outlandish. Beeeeeeeeeezarre stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjenkins 0 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Sounds like interesting folk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telling tiger 156 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Extremely violent, paid off some fo the local marshalls for protection. Murderous folk too. Top of the news cycle for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FEARLESSANDTRUE Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 The decendants lived with the notoriety. I was friends with one. He was a great guy, but nobody and I mean nobody, messed with him. Funny, he wouldn't hurt a fly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FEARLESSANDTRUE Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 We are going to chill here, T's, kids and us. Grill, drink, music and maybe some late afternoon pool. Kids are working on some stuff and prepping to get back to work. The break was too long they are getting restless Working hard though. What are you peoples doing? Going to mom/dad's? Dawson Gang? Yep Damn, you caught me and I was just about to deny it too joking about you catching me when you said "more like 5 seconds". Yep, going to the parents' for the 4th. The cousin and her fam should be in late tonight. Some friends coming over as well. Dad is doing chicken and ribs, can't beat that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telling tiger 156 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 If interested enough, here is good overview of the man from news archives. Short but kinda Walking Tallish crimes. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19850424&id=FcchAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5p0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2671,6080456 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
around4ever 4,139 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Yeah, ole Dewitt was a bad dude. But he got his due. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FEARLESSANDTRUE Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Jenks, they are from the next county over from me, neighbors, if you will. The article that TT posted mentions our current Sheriff who was then a LT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telling tiger 156 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 He was somewhat of a holdover from a previous era of criminals. Not saying they all are but you have to be somewhat more sophisticated today. Alabama neighborhoods aren't the kind of hoods prone to people paying "protection" money. Different world. Boston was an interesting place to learn how some things work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
around4ever 4,139 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 He was somewhat of a holdover from a previous era of criminals. Not saying they all are but you have to be somewhat more sophisticated today. Alabama neighborhoods aren't the kind of hoods prone to people paying "protection" money. Different world. Boston was an interesting place to learn how some things work Gangs say hi. It still happens. :-\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FEARLESSANDTRUE Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 It's more like "look the other way money" in good ole' Alabama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telling tiger 156 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Now Otis, go get in your cage and hang the key back up. I'm not too worried about many Nortenos, Bloods or Crips in Leighton,Al. :laugh:A neighborhood that depends on public transportation, has on the block business and housing mixed, and sits in the middle of 6 million people is a completely different thing than the gangs that roam this hood and Leighton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
around4ever 4,139 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 It's more like "look the other way money" in good ole' Alabama. It was. Phenix City was known for it's organized crime for years and not that long ago. There were some clubs on old Highway 280 just south of Birmingham, very near TT's house, that were also huge gambling clubs and everybody knew it but they were allowed to continue and prosper. Look the other way money, no doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FEARLESSANDTRUE Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Now the gangs TT mentioned, Bloods and Crips are in the Shoal area, next door to Leighton. A kid I taught in HS was fatally shot by a rival gang. Sorry, make that folk and crips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FEARLESSANDTRUE Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Let's go cook meatloaf. All the food for the 4th of July week can't be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augolf1716 21,979 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 It's more like "look the other way money" in good ole' Alabama. It was. Phenix City was known for it's organized crime for years and not that long ago. There were some clubs on old Highway 280 just south of Birmingham, very near TT's house, that were also huge gambling clubs and everybody knew it but they were allowed to continue and prosper. Look the other way money, no doubt. Anyone every heard of The Phenix City Story movie. Problem was John Patterson was about as crooked when he became Governor. Lord John Patterson and Jim Folson as Governors. He waged a campaign with a hillbilly band and brandished a mop and bucket which he said would "clean out" the Capitol. You are my Sunshine my only sunshine sung by ???????? for the campaign. God those were awful time for the state of Al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telling tiger 156 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 There is a longtime Birmingham club for "gentlemen" that is about as connected as you can get. Serves as a convenient outlet for several things. So successful that it has long since expanded to Mobile, Pensacola and does a bang up business. As kids we always enjoyed the way one of the daughters looked. One morning we all waved at her as he drove by and he stopped and asked if we were a bunch of clowns. At the time we didn't know who he was. That afternoon we went to the local toy store and got clown noses. The next monring we had them on as they drove by. We found out who he was later that day and NEVER did that again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
around4ever 4,139 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Ahhh yes, that time of year when there's no better way to celebrate our independence than by getting drunk and detonating explosives. :-\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telling tiger 156 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Sooooo, do you mind if we get drunk, build open fires in the backyard and roast meat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
around4ever 4,139 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 I don't mind either of them. As a matter of fact have participated in both today. Some dude next door has some illegal fireworks. I think it is like a half a stick of dynamite. I'm staying away from that dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telling tiger 156 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 62 could be over there, the man seriously likes it when things go big boomboom WAY TOO much explosive/fireworks knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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