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From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
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Subject: Re: Re: Goetz annoying after awhile....
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Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 14:53:10 EST
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> 
> What we have here, is a classic example of ignorant prejudice.
> The four involved have not been reported to have any association with any
> gangs.
	
	What? They weren't carrying their official gang registration
	cards? I think a group of four punks with long criminal
	records, out on a subway crime spree, qualifies as behaving
	according to gang psychology.

> Yet Bill's fantasies stop little short of beating the jungle drums and
> chases through the subways with poison arrows.
> I hated living in NYC, and can sympathize with the fears involved.

	I don't know which NYC you lived in, but in the one I lived the
	subways, streets, parks, etc. were (and are) a jungle.

	I seem to remember being chased through a subway by a gang of
	punks with knives- I never did find out if they were poisoned.
	A good friend of mine was killed, while playing volleyball in a park,
	by a gang. Another person I knew slightly was killed, 
	while riding his bicycle, by a gang that bushwacked him with a
	large branch. Almost every woman I knew had been raped or assaulted 
	once. And everybody had had their apartment ripped off.