Parents Fight Over Which Gang Their Kid Should Join!

1. quinnnchick
   April 11th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

   I have got absolutely nothing.

   wow.

2. Geekazoid
   April 11th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

   That's pretty interesting. In L.A., many Black and Latino gangs are at each other's throats, and there's so much bad blood they've both excluded anyone outside their race joining. The Crips/Bloods vs. the Southsiders. In fact, in L.A. this particular child, because he has Black bloodlines, wouldn't be allowed to join many Latino gangs in L.A.

3. Ali S.
   April 11th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

   Ok, this is just sad. What the Hell is wrong with them?! This is something I can't wrap my head around.

4. windowshoppist
   April 11th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

   Wow. Depressing. So, the parents are teens? Where are their parents?

5. Lore
   April 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

   Wow...

6. empty-minded
   April 11th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

   Priorities, please.

7. bean
   April 11th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

   I could say a lot of disparaging things... but it's nice to see a daddy that cares about his child's future. Sure, his judgment is terrible... but at least he's sort of there.

8. CheeseDuck
   April 11th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

   Hey! I have a good compromise! Lets have him NOT join a gang? Bad idea...? Okay.

9. DrJones
   April 11th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

   Perhaps a new family friendly gang is in need of establishment!

10. Sofar
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    Shoot them both. Today. We can probably save the kid, but honestly he'd have a better chance at a decent life if we let a pack of wolves raise him. Might end up with better diction, too.

11. the robot child
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    oh man it's like a modern day romeo and juliet

12. Jennifer
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    Wow. And yet, we are required to pass two tests just drive a car.

13. Lea
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    I'm surprised they even GOT together to have a kid the way gangs are so "particular" *cough* about who they associate with.

    Windowshoppist: I agree.
    bean: seriously? i hope you're being sarcastic...

14. roger
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    The best solution would be to find a neutral gang which neither parent can claim as their own, such as the Bloods or Hell's Angels. Or, they can put out bandanas with Crips & Westside Ballers colors and see which one the little tot grabs first. So many problems can be easily resolved with a little common sense.

15. Mokuwai
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    Westside ballers is the only logical choice... why is this even a question?

16. ted
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:52 pm

    What does a Westside Baller normally ball?

17. nobody.here
    April 11th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    this really worries me. which video displays were knocked down and were the dvds scratched badly?

18. bean
    April 11th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Lea-
    Is my sarcasm really that subtle?

19. Louisa
    April 11th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding...

20. Thomas
    April 11th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    Wow, the state should really take that kid away.

    Ted: drugs. A baller is someone who has the money to deal in larger increments of drugs. An 8-ball is slang for 1/8 of an ounce, and I'm pretty sure the term balling is derived from that.

21. biltmore
    April 11th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

    I hope that the state takes the kid away as well Thomas. Usually people LEAVE the gang life to have a family. Ugh ... such idiotic parents.

22. Alannah
    April 11th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

    And this lovely young couple don't have a DFS case file, why?

23. Christophe
    April 11th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

    Are we really all born equals?

24. Barbwire
    April 11th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    Geekazoid: Eighteenth Street accepts blacks, and the Bloods accept Latinos. Where I live (Torrance), there's a minor war going on between a Latino gang and a black gang. It's sad.

    Louisa, I couldn't agree more. And that's sad, too.

25. superbad
    April 11th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    In 1000 years, historians will view Mike Judge as a visionary. Except that in 1000 years the average IQ will be about 25, so we won't have any historians.

26. Manticore
    April 12th, 2008 at 12:26 am

    wtf how did those two even end up having a kid in the first place if now they're fighting over which gang to stuff their poor kid into???

27. remf3
    April 12th, 2008 at 12:46 am

    I think his best choice would just be Norteno. With the upbringing he's going to be getting, I'm sure that Familia Nuestra is going to be his first exposure when he hits juvie at 9...

28. PancakeMan
    April 12th, 2008 at 1:38 am

    The cops should set up some sort of sting operation, one in which they pretend to be counseling for teen parents who can't decide which gang to put Jr. in. Such easy convictions...

29. kyboiz
    April 12th, 2008 at 2:07 am

    Face in hands...crying.

30. ted
    April 12th, 2008 at 5:12 am

    Thanks for the drug info. When I grew up, balling meant something a little more innocuous. Sigh, nobody understands my dry humour...

31. William
    April 12th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    Parents macro-managing kids social lives is a major problem today. Back in the day, Spanky and Buckwheat formed their own little interracial gang and did just fine.

32. Scotchdrnkr
    April 12th, 2008 at 8:08 am

    I've got the perfect solution for the kids future.
    Let him become an Explorer with the Police dept. Then he can make both parents mad. The ultimate teenager rebelling against his parents. Of course chances are he wouldn't live to be old enough to actually become an Officer but either way it solves the problem.

33. Crash
    April 12th, 2008 at 8:09 am

    All of you who say this is "so shocking", I can tell you have never been poor.

34. MikeH
    April 12th, 2008 at 8:41 am

    Wow, Crash. Pretty presumptuous to suggest that none of us know what it's like to be poor. I grew up very poor, but luckily my parents took what little money they had and moved me out of SoCal where I was born to avoid this kind of future.
    Poverty doesn't equal stupidity. And these losers are stupid. It's the stupidity that's "shocking".

35. cranberrycynic
    April 12th, 2008 at 9:50 am

    What about joining Drama Club?

36. Alex
    April 12th, 2008 at 10:03 am

    Drama club is dangerous, cranberrycynic! How could you even suggest such a thing?

37. XuYu
    April 12th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    What utterly selfish parents!

    Shouldn't they be more concerned about which gang would be BEST FOR THE CHILD?

38. lynne
    April 12th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    Maybe they should form a new gang - The Crip Ballers. What does a 4 year old have to do to jump in? Steal pull ups? Heist a case of drink boxes? Beat up 5 year old?

    Seriously, I hope the little guy has been taken somewhere safely away from the gang life. If not, he's probably doomed to a life of poverty, drugs and violence.

39. Allison
    April 12th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    The gangs are becoming a real problem here in California. Mostly in LA. I used to go up to LA and enjoy a weekend there now and then. Right now, I am much too afraid to go up because of the rising violence. The police chief, Bill Bratton, doesn't know how to handle Los Angeles crimes. He should go back to New York.

40. Patricio
    April 12th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    I thought it was ridiculous when I read that yuppie parents stress out to the max worrying about getting their toddler into the right pre-school, casue if you don't get them in the right preschiool then they won't get into the right kindergarten, which means they won't get in the right....on up to getting into Harvard, etc...

    But this just takes the cake.

    I say go for the Westside Ballers.

41. meowth
    April 13th, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Blacks and hispanics unable to raise child properly, news at 11. Seriously, what is it going to take for people in this country to wake up?

42. Lol
    April 13th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    That's really sad.

43. DDT
    April 13th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    Want to be a parent? Get a license. You need a license to drive, and in some states, if not all, a license to breed pets, and even own pets. I think if you want to be a parent, you need to get license to prevent shitapillers like this from breeding and polluting humanity.

44. Kathleen
    April 14th, 2008 at 8:40 am

    I hope the department of family services will be involved. That child needs a better home than one where the parents want him in a gang.

45. Scot
    April 14th, 2008 at 9:17 am

    Kill them both.

46. whantmoore
    April 14th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    I am glad to see that parents are taking part in there kids lives

47. Maywood Citizen
    April 26th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    How long are we going to tolerate illegal gangs in our communities? What we need are grass roots efforts to eradicate gangs and the sale of illegal drugs. If we don't try, we all deserve what we get. We can start by disspelling some of the myths going around in our society. For instance, many people young and old believe that drug pushers make a lot of money. However, one U. of C. researcher found that gang members selling illegal drugs only made $3.50 per hour. In other words, gang members made less than half of the minimum wage. Gang members could make more money slinging hamburgers and they wouldn't have to go to jail for it. In addition, young people on the borderline need to know that every wrong doer gets caught, one way or another.

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    Maywood Illinois

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