Comments on: Parents Fight Over Which Gang Their Kid Should Join!

By: Maywood Citizen

Maywood Citizen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:24:35 +0000

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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By: whantmoore

whantmoore — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:05:50 +0000

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

By: Scot

Scot — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:17:59 +0000

Kill them both.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:40:16 +0000

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.

By: DDT

DDT — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:06:39 +0000

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.

By: Lol

Lol — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:07:30 +0000

That's really sad.

By: meowth

meowth — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:28:08 +0000

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?

By: Patricio

Patricio — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:55:46 +0000

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.

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:27:38 +0000

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.

By: lynne

lynne — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:33:42 +0000

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.

By: XuYu

XuYu — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:19:10 +0000

What utterly selfish parents!

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

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:03:17 +0000

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

By: cranberrycynic

cranberrycynic — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:50:10 +0000

What about joining Drama Club?

By: MikeH

MikeH — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:41:12 +0000

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".

By: Crash

Crash — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:09:05 +0000

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

By: Scotchdrnkr

Scotchdrnkr — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:08:36 +0000

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.

By: William

William — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:34:49 +0000

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.

By: ted

ted — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:12:39 +0000

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

By: kyboiz

kyboiz — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:07:46 +0000

Face in hands...crying.

By: PancakeMan

PancakeMan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:38:45 +0000

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...

By: remf3

remf3 — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:46:15 +0000

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...

By: Manticore

Manticore — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:26:46 +0000

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???

By: superbad

superbad — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:31:50 +0000

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.

By: Barbwire

Barbwire — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:16:24 +0000

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.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:11:12 +0000

Are we really all born equals?

By: Alannah

Alannah — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:10:23 +0000

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

By: biltmore

biltmore — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:52:27 +0000

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.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:46:41 +0000

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.

By: Louisa

Louisa — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:33:52 +0000

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

By: bean

bean — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:28:18 +0000

Lea-
Is my sarcasm really that subtle?