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Topic: Getting Shit for Looking Like a Punk
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Yuck Foo
Punk Posts: 1056
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 04-22-2000 01:31 PM
   
Okay all my rambling, reminded me that once upon a time it was very unusual to look different, (see Disco Rumblers posting).I remember in 1980 I got a ton of shit for having an earring, man do times change. I know the current crop of gutter punks get weird stares for having their maori face tattoos and 18 lip nose and eyebrow piercings. But times have really changed, and if anyone has stories about what it was like back then...post 'em. Here's a couple: Angry Vietnam veterans on the MTC bus, yelling at me for wearing an army jacket while looking like a punk. Stoned out hippy chicks crying over my skinhead... "How could you do that to your hair...Maaaann" An angry porno reader at Shinders spitting into my face, and calling me disgusting. An angry burnout at McDonalds insulted by my clothes and hair and coldcocking me... Okay these are pretty lame rembrances...anybody got any better ones? I bet if Crash were still alive he'd have some. IP: Logged |
warthog
Lil Punk Posts: 22
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 04-22-2000 01:54 PM
It's as simple as walking to an S.A. at 10:30 at night and those fucking disco rumblers attack just three of us. We were drinking MILK TRULY MILK on the street corner of Lake and Lyndale when they struck. Of, course none of us where high or drunk Straight Edge Punks in ther early 80's so those clowns got a world of hurt from us punks. IP: Logged |
Billy Redcloud
Punk Posts: 232
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 04-24-2000 01:58 AM
Oh you with victorous that day Warthog.I had a mohawk for a week once in 81,I could'nt handle it man,people would literly almost get in car accidents gawking at me.IP: Logged |
Patrick_Toth
Punk Posts: 95
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-07-2000 01:00 AM
I got picked by a couple of cops in '83, right in front of Goofy's for no freakin' reason other than being a punk back then. For some reason I was without id. at the time and got thrown in the back of the sqaud car. Both shit on me for having a skinhead and asked me how many cows I had to kill for my jacket and boots. I laughed with them, then realized they were driving down 94 to St.Paul. They kicked me out of the car somewhere near Shepard fuckin' Road and told me that the skinhead look went out in the 50's. It's like Kevin Spacey said in his memorable role as Verbal in 'The Usual Suspects', "Fucking cops". IP: Logged |
Beving
Punk Posts: 1926
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-13-2000 09:31 AM
Was thinking back the other day about this very topic... remember the time(s) when everyone would yell "DEVO" at you out of thier car when you were walking around? Didn't matter if you looked nothing like a member of DEVO, that's just what everyone thought was a good insult to hurl at anyone who looked like they didn't listen to KQ.
Or the real brainy ones would just call you a fag.IP: Logged |
zomzom
Punk Posts: 77342189
Registered: Mar 1920
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posted 05-13-2000 01:35 PM
Yeah, Devo, or "do you like the Cars?" I had some clowns start singing "Pop Music" more than once." pop, pop, pop music."IP: Logged |
pookie68
Lil Punk Posts: 16
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-13-2000 08:11 PM
I was a chick with a mohawk when I was about 14 or 15, I have been called an ugly dyke bitch more times than I care to remember. IP: Logged |
Garage Woman
Punk Posts: 666
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-14-2000 06:43 AM
I had my share of DEVO insults.At St. Louis Park High in 1980, I used to get iceballs thrown at me at the smoking door (I still can't believe we had student smoking lounges in high school). I also was actually spit on by a stoner guy - talk about teenage trauma, I can still see his fucking face. I did get sent home from school for wearing a Nazi Punks Fuck Off t-shirt, so that was cool.
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Little Maxie Dugan
Punk Posts: 90
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-22-2000 09:05 AM
We may have to start another thread for Terry, getting shit for looking like Charlie Manson.IP: Logged |
Beving
Punk Posts: 1926
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-22-2000 09:27 PM
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Originally posted by Terry Type-alot:
Was anyone here not allowed to see
their friends because parents though your punk thing was a "bad influence" on others?
I can do that one better... not only did my friend's insanely strict Catholic parents NOT want him to hang out with me and my friends, they moved to Fridley to get away from us! Good thing I had just bought a car.
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chief heap big 6 pack
Punk Posts: 250
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 05-22-2000 11:02 PM
FRIDLEY ! now that's a hell of alot scarier than any hardcore i've listened to. !IP: Logged |
BabySplit
Punk Posts: 53
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-22-2000 11:57 PM
There was the time I was picked out of a group of pedestrians by the cops for jaywalking; maybe eight of us were doing it...the farm boys driving down hennepin at night, yelling stupid things at us and throwing cans.IP: Logged |
badgas
Punk Posts: 652
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 05-24-2000 10:35 AM
Now I didn't have too much trouble in this deparment since I was never THAT unusual looking. But I remember stopping at the corner of 7th and Henn to give a friend a muffin out of a box from work and the beatcop came by and told me to keep it moving and I was irate. He offered to give me a ticket if I didn't comply...at the time I was dumbfounded as to why...now I realize the friend was little Mikey Etoll and it all makes perfect sense.  IP: Logged |
TinTin
Punk Posts: 237
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-02-2000 11:06 AM
you know what's even worse?
getting shit for looking like a hippieIP: Logged |
Jzzz
Punk Posts: 1784
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-03-2000 03:16 PM
I always liked Tim Mitchel's reply to shouts of "Faggot" "So's your car"
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REV_CMW
Punk Posts: 67
Registered: May 2000
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posted 06-14-2000 09:30 PM
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Originally posted by Garage Woman:
I had my share of DEVO insults.At St. Louis Park High in 1980, I used to get iceballs thrown at me at the smoking door (I still can't believe we had student smoking lounges in high school). I also was actually spit on by a stoner guy - talk about teenage trauma, I can still see his fucking face. I did get sent home from school for wearing a Nazi Punks Fuck Off t-shirt, so that was cool.
And ya got a pic in the school paper!!!
I still have a copy of it!!!
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Mitchell
Punk Posts: 356
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 06-18-2000 11:12 AM
The scariest run-ins I had in the early days were always with bikers who did NOT like us wearing leathers.I remember one party where a group of bikers decided my jacket was too new and shiny and kindly offered to drag me behind their bikes for a couple hours to break it in. One of the few times I ducked out before the keg was dry. Of course, this was in the early days, before
most bikers at least knew a couple punks and what to make of 'em. IP: Logged |
Rachel
Lil Punk Posts: 23
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 06-27-2000 06:47 PM
I remember the high school cafeteria was always great fun, immediatley upon my arrival people started throwing things at me. There was this one particular fella who truly got a rise out of me, for the most part I always tried to look bored with it all, well he threw this chicken wing at me it got stuck in my cones, that inspired me to throw my whole lunch at him as I walked by, then he chased me, I ran because he was alot larger than me, later he tried to run me over on several occasions, made threating calls to my home, the works. Well my mother told me he probaly just liked me and that was his way of showing it. She constantly amazes me, how her thought process works I am not quite sure. Anyway I have alot of stories just like this one, Going to H.S. in Spring Lake Park, Well you can imagine the horror.IP: Logged |
dadaduck
Punk Posts: 886
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 06-28-2000 03:31 PM
Regular occurance. The inevitable shouts of "Hey faggot!"...getting jumped while walking to the grocery store (my friend and I had our heads slammed-together, just like in the movies). Best friend nearly got his brains bashed-in with a baseball bat but he escaped with just a chipped tooth...When a bunch of us complained about police harassment in downtown St. Paul, I got a phone call from Mayor George Latimer. That was pretty cool! IP: Logged |
dangermouse
Punk Posts: 86
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 07-28-2000 02:16 PM
Rachel and I went to the same school (Spring Lake Park). I didn’t go into the cafeteria for half of 11th and all of 12th grade, as it wasn’t possible to do so without getting covered in food. One guy stopped his car in the middle of a busy road (on the borderline between Spring Lake Park AND Fridley), got out and just screamed at us for nearly 5 minutes. His car just sat there, blocking traffic. There was a Punk Day once and I wore a cowboy-style shirt, cowboy boots, boot-cut jeans, a stylish leather jacket (borrowed from dad’s closet) and feathered my hair. It completely confused everyone...they just didn’t get it. What always baffled me were the kids who wore Twisted Sister t-shirts and threw me against lockers and called me ‘fag’. Maybe if I’d only permed my hair and stolen my sister’s eye shadow....IP: Logged |
Rachel
Lil Punk Posts: 23
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 07-28-2000 02:41 PM
That day was so funny Dangermouse ( I see you still like him ). The jacket was brown was'nt it? Even dressed like that you still looked better than any of the Van Halen wannabees at our school. I forgot did you tuck the pants in the boots?IP: Logged |
Garage Woman
Punk Posts: 666
Registered: May 2000
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posted 07-28-2000 05:35 PM
My friends and I stormed the Student Council meeting when they planned a punk dress up day at St. Louis Park Senior High and made them take it off the week's festivities. We were so political, mannnnn, actually I just liked to cause a stir whenever possible. I spoke at the meeting and told them it was offensive to us and "our lifestyle" and to us it would be like having "wheelchair day." Boy was I dramatic.IP: Logged |
Beving
Punk Posts: 1926
Registered: May 2000
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posted 07-29-2000 02:21 PM
1983, i'm in Bismark ND visiting friends of my folks. their 13 year old son got all excited because it was "Punk Day" at school and he was wearing parachute pants, a Sammy Hgar shirt and a bandanna around his head ala Loverboy. Oh yeah, mirrored cop shades too.(I wanted to end this with a witty comment, but how can you comment on THAT?) IP: Logged |
Tobylifehater
Punk Posts: 2103
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-12-2000 07:06 PM
In 1982 in San Diego we were stopped daily by the cops- I mean literally daily- You didn't fuck up there because the cops were all of the time accidently killing people that they picked up- One time they shot a city councilman to death at a sobriety check point when he had some kind of siezure, they thought he was attacking them. I had a mohawk and had (have under my mop) LIFEHATER tattooed on my head in big block letters. Needless to say i got jumped about weekly, and ran home at night more than walked if I was alone. On the upside, I practice Kickboxing and Brazillian Jiu Jitsu, and I am one of my teachers students that isnt really shy about getting hit. Oh wait- Is that a good thing? Anyways, I woke up one morning after a show (I played with a band called Personal Conflict)all hung over and decided to hitch home to North county- dumb mistake. I ended up walking from Golden Hills to Santee (about nine hours- I couldnt figure out how to get across the freeway) before I got a ride, and then it was to a near sighted old man who asked me if I was in the marines. I just told him that I was gonna join when I turned eighteen and enjoyd the ride. That was about nine hours of "Punk Sucks!" and "Get a haircut!", and some bodybuilders saved me from getting beat up by a truckload of rednecks, and the night before Chrissie Catastrophe and Wendy Pyro had written "Punk Sucks Better" on my shirt in indelible ink pen. I'd do it all again if I had to, but kids now have pretty much got it made (except that people now shoot at you with real guns.)IP: Logged |
Tobylifehater
Punk Posts: 2103
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-12-2000 07:07 PM
Oh- check out my site at http://communities.msn.com/earlyeightiespunkrocksurvivors- Thanks- Toby IP: Logged |
Rachel
Lil Punk Posts: 23
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 08-14-2000 05:22 PM
Actually this is not in regards to getting "shit", it was one of my cooler memories. When I was pregnant with my son, I had "Fire Engine Red" hair, and obviously a big stomach. Little kids always thought I was a clown or something, they would wave and expect me to have balloons for them, as their parents stood in horror, their little guys would be running up to me to say hi.IP: Logged |
X Offender
Punk Posts: 157
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 08-24-2000 09:07 AM
my parents were always cool about how i "looked"...maybe because both of my siblings and i dressed and looked similar. in high school i was basically harrassed daily for my appearance, but after a little while, one can usually get use to it (even if you don't always have people that are like you and can back you up). let's just say high school was hell for me!IP: Logged |
Tobylifehater
Punk Posts: 2103
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-15-2000 02:26 AM
Sorry- it's the only picture I've got. I'm the little rectangle with the red x in the center. You'd hate life too. Oh- I played in Personal Conflict from 81-84 or therabouts- I quit the band to make more time in my life for drinking, doing drugs, and general fellonious mischief. I moved away (from San Diego)in 89 because everyone was dieing or going to prison and it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. I was a city councilman in Wyoming for a while and did good stuff and got to mess with the cops a lot, then I moved to hawaii. married, 1 child. Presently making obscene gestures and fart noises with my armpit in the middle of the pacific (on an island, not an innertube). Aloha. Toby_G [This message has been edited by Tobylifehater (edited 10-15-2000).] [This message has been edited by Tobylifehater (edited 10-15-2000).] [This message has been edited by Tobylifehater (edited 10-17-2000).] IP: Logged |
Jasper
Lil Punk Posts: 1
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 10-18-2000 12:16 PM
It's not as easy as you think to look somewhat different today. At least where i live it isnt. I get shit just for wearing a leather jacket and studded belt. You know the usual stares and calling of faggot. It's like if you dont like limp bizkit and you dont wear a hat backwards you're wrong. One of my "friends" actually asked me where my "fag belt" was when i wasnt wearing it. It seems evolution doesnt affect the rednecks.IP: Logged |
vomitousmass
Punk Posts: 65
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 11-22-2000 04:49 PM
hey garage woman- i managed to argue with the principal rationally enough at 15 that i actually convinced him what a good message the nazi punks fuck off shirt was sending(as we were having "issues" with some bullshit racist beatings at the time)
As for the looking wierd thing-here's one- how about when you have a few still true to the look punk friends and you are simply too lazy and too poor to keep up with the hair dying, the studs, the spikes (wich are outrageously priced) and the leather(same problem) and every other little tid bit that you'd have to buy again after you lost your stuff, had it stolen or gave it to people you like. then- your friends take your lazy assed self out to be with other punks who fucking mock you non stop and actually try to kick your ass for not having the correct "punk standard" look. granted, i'm not a big girl, but could still hold my own in the ultraviolence depatrment which is why they realized they were being asses- but the fact remains- if you don't like being treated shitty for the way you look (by the way- it comes with the territory and you should really be enjoying it) then don't do it to people who don't have the look you deem as right- sorry for the rant- but even some of the best looking punks are fuckin posers. course, before that; i used to get my head bashed into lockers, spat upon, kicked, one guy threw oranges at my head about once a week while yelling "go back to 'frisco you fucking dyke" and me replying "go back to compton you fucking shlangster" (i love it when they call me pet names- aawww ) i went to highschool in willmar- fucking willmar- do you even realize what that shit is? christ.
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MrsPeel
Punk Posts: 2656
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 11-24-2000 03:02 PM
School was always hell for me. When I found punk, it just became a different kind of hell. A more reasonable hell. Because it was a relief for there to finally be a reason for all the shit I was getting. Most memorable: My sophmore year of high school,(85) I was wearing a chain from my nose to my ear. A wrestler, passing me on the stairs, yanked it out. Which would have been fine, except I was wearing a back on it, so it caused quite a rip in the flesh. But the story has a happy ending. Another wrestler, who was in my french class and for some odd reason talked to me all the time and thought I was cool or something, beat him up for it.
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trainwreck
Punk Posts: 821
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 04-26-2001 11:57 AM
i was getting shit from some ultra punks when i wasnt as punk looking at them and i was a vegan (at that time). I got em to hate me by cracking jokes about skinning a tatooed punk for a "punk skin jacket"...all but one wanted to kill me and had no sense of humor, the one with humor joked about eating my dog but he was cool and i recognized a joke.
I was in Tompkins Square Park and Mr Crusty McDirtbag asked me for a cigarette and when i didnt have one, he responded with "nice clean patches" because I guess I wasnt "crusty" enough...
I was happy going to the Dayton fest a few years back though, when i really didnt get shit from a the first mass grouping of punks ive been to, even the Minneapolis drunks were cool!(being from essentially a backwater area and pre-internet this was a big deal)IP: Logged |
Spyke
Lil Punk Posts: 30
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 09-02-2001 05:35 PM
About two weeks ago me and my friends Blitz and john john were all hanging out in the Chatham area. When this go said something about our looks and hairstyles....being used to it we didn't say nothing.....Later that night we seen the same guy and he strated to give us more shit about, then Andy jumped outand strated telling him to back off, I tryed to reason but to no avail (never reason with a drunk).
The guy was such a fucking idiot he thought we were trying to pick a fight with him, so he said I'll take ya all on, So said all right asshole bring it!
Then he ran off and came back with 5 friends (also on the bottled violence).
That night we had a little of the old Ultra Violence......
hahahaha.......IP: Logged |
Fry
Punk Posts: 509
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-06-2002 12:10 AM
I've got a long story.Some friends egged this ultra jock guy's house because he was the biggest asshole ever. He assumed it was me, because we hated each other and got into fights since middle school. The next day, me and 3 other people were walking down... I can't remember the street but it's in Linden Hills. One's from Northfield and the other is kind of a wuss and not a punk, and the other's liked some of my music but didn't look punk. The wuss one stops, walks up to a house and stands in the lawn staring at it. We're like, "what the hell are you doing" and he leaves after a minute. Then about 10 jocks come running out of the house after us, so we started running instinctively. I had no idea what the hell was going on exactly, but I really didn't want anything to happen to the kid from Northfield or the wuss kid, I don't know why, I felt I needed to protect them or something. So I take my hat off (they'd know it was me from the mohawk) and slow down a little and run in a different direction around the corner of the street. I'm wearing boots, so it's harder to run than I thought (I could still run really fast though, I already had quit smoking a year earlier). About 3 kids can keep up with me, and they're really fucking persistent and pissed off. I got away after like 3 and a half blocks when they gave up. So I kept running to my friends house because he lived near by. That's not all. They made a posse to beat me up. They accused me of spray-painting this kid's new white SUV... even though it was obviously untouched. They got 30 kids together just for the sole purpose of kicking my ass. Apparently, a lot of little wuss kids came, some kids who couldn't have been 100 pounds. They actually called my friend to ask if he wanted to join in. They showed up at my friend's house about 5 minutes after I left. They piled out of about 6 cars onto the sidewalk while my friend and about 7 other people were sitting in chairs smoking. They went up and said they knew I was there and they didn't have anything against anyone there, they just wanted to know where I was. My friend's cool dad told them to fuck off and get a life and that he was calling the police. The next day in school, I was expecting a fight, so I stayed near friends and had a chain on me. But they never did. I don't know why. I never stopped carrying that chain. I've had bottles thrown at me from cars, one popped my bike tire and stranded me in North Minneapolis. Another time I was hit by a truck who had to have seen my walking there in North St. Paul. My English teacher asked why I was walking in North St. Paul with a mohawk. But I really don't get shit on a regular basis. Seeing your posts makes me wish punk wasn't so boring and normal and cool today. Not that I really want to get my ass kicked, but still... In Winona, another friend of mine got tons of shit even though he didn't even look very punk. Cars would run him off the road when he was biking, kids would start fights all the time. But I got shit my whole life, so looking like a punk wasn't a big change. [This message has been edited by Fry (edited 04-06-2002).] IP: Logged |
Monkeywrenchgirl
Lil Punk Posts: 1
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 04-18-2002 04:57 PM
Back when I was a girl in CA in the 80's, there were a group of jocks at out high school who all had souped up, slammed volkswagens. They were called the VWClub. They used to attack us whenever they saw us on the streets during the daytime (if there were more than one of them, and if we were alone). Whenever one of our people was attacked, we would respond by destroying one of their cars. A few years later, there was a little mohican dude who was a dealer for every gutter punk in SF. At the time, the punks in SF were feared... they were extraordinarily tough street fighters, and no one could take them (it was a different time). So, this mohican kid was their dealer and went to his high school every day with his black hard-sided briefcase full of drugs, and the football players fucked with him constantly. They had no idea who he was. They didn't know who they were fucking with at all... they only say some scrawny punk "victim". So one day they caught him out after school and beat him badly. They put him in the hospital. His "clients" got word of what had happened, and decided to take care of the problem. (After all, they couldn't have their favorite dealer out of commission). So the worst SF street fighters at the time (formidable bunch), went out to this high school and beat the crap out of the football team. Then they held the leader's hand down on the bleachers while the mohican's girlfriend stomped it over and over again. She completely crushed the guys hand, and he lost his scholarship and no one ever bothered that mohican again. It's funny... punk was so different then. The younger kids now don't realize that to be a punk once meant that you had better be ready to fight. Sometimes every day. People now may stare, but once upon a time things were much, much harder. We were much harder, too.IP: Logged |
Fry
Punk Posts: 509
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 04-18-2002 09:42 PM
My theory is people aren't as hard on us, so we don't become as hard.IP: Logged |
H-TowN DrunK PunK
Punk Posts: 34
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 04-20-2002 02:01 PM
just tell people that christ was a punk rocker.. seems to work well in shitty situations.. :PIP: Logged |
Chelsea40ozBondage
Punk Posts: 2284
Registered: May 2000
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posted 05-15-2002 09:27 PM
quote:
Originally posted by H-TowN DrunK PunK:
just tell people that christ was a punk rocker.. seems to work well in shitty situations.. :P
Anarchists Rise Up, Move To Different Cafeteria Table
BATAVIA, NY--After years of working toward an ultimate goal of smashing the dominant social and political hierarchy, the Anarchy League of Batavia South High School rose up and took action Monday, moving to another cafeteria table when this bunch of jerks from the popular kids' table wouldn't stop making faces and shooting spitballs at them. "At long last, the time has come for us to gather our books and sit over at that other table by the window where, hopefully, those guys will stop bugging us," said sophomore anarchist Lindsay Franklin, 15. "I hate those stupid idiots. They think they're so cool." IP: Logged |
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