Saturday, October 18, 2008

a scarry threat to our suburb

a few days ago in my choir class, our director told us some news that the school administration wanted to keep quiet: there was an incident on campus not too long ago that happened to her son, that deals with a new gang in surprise called "the juggalos". her son is on the football team and while waiting by the locker room, he noticed a kid standing by the gate wearing a white hockey mask. this kid started walking toward him until the head football coach noticed and threatened to kick the kid's u-know-what if he didnt leave the campus ASAP, so the kid turned the other way and left.
it sounds pretty stupid, i know: some kid tried to look all bad and scarry by putting on a hockey mask. but trust me, its much more than that. our director told us that the kid in the mask that approached her son was part of the juggalos, and that if he would have actually reached her son that it couldve gotten violent.
every gang has their signature way of killing, and this one is beyond belief. a member of the gang will walk up to you, completely silent, and just stand there in front of you, and tilt their head to the side, staring at you. they just stand there silent until you say something about it. as soon you say ANYTHING they pull a hatchet out from behind their back and start hacking at your neck! isnt that HORRIBLE!!!!!!?????? i cant believe that people would actually do that kind of thing!!! when i moved out here, there seemed to be no trouble with gangs at all, but every year it gets worse and worse.
the gang traveled here from california and is spread all over arizona now. some of my friends had a personal run in with three juggalos tonight in tempe. our theatre troupe was participating in a fundraiser and awareness project for leukemia and lymphoma called light the night. after collecting money for a few weeks for these diseases, you get to do a walk around tempe town lake along with all the other participants from around the state. they were all having a good time until the end. my friends shelbey and mandy were walking with their group from our theatre troupe when they saw christian and brandie book it past them. they look behind them and saw 3 people wearing ski masks pretty close behind them, so shelbey and mandy sped off to the other side of the street where brandie and christian went! they caught up with another of the groups from our school and they tried to calm them down. they all explained everything about the gang and another girl, laura, said that when she went into the bathroom, she saw a drawing of one of the masked people with a dagger on the wall! they all made it out of tempe just fine but it was still really scarry that they were almost approached by a whole group of them!!!
so im DEFINATELY glad that our choir director decided to not listen to the administration's orders to not tell any of the students. christian and brandie are both in choir as well as theatre, and if our director hadnt told us about the juggalos, then they, as well as the other kids in their group, couldve gotten hurt!!! i can understand why they would want to keep us sheltered, but when the situations out there in our small city concern our LIVES, then we should be informed of whats going on!

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