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sikpuppy
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 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:24 am Post subject: Happy Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Day. |
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Short story.
Longer.
Wiki - Longer still
Sort of interesting, if only for the fact it happened on this day. |
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notageek
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Nice!
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Muso
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Be Mein
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:51 pm Post subject: Re: Happy Saint Valentine's Day Massacre Day. |
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Glad I'm familiar with the story. I was thinking I was going to have to ask for an executive summary / elevator pitch.
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BoneKracker
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And not one innocent civilian was killed. That's why nobody uses the term "organized crime" to refer to the gangs we have now.
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Muso
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | And not one innocent civilian was killed. That's why nobody uses the term "organized crime" to refer to the gangs we have now. |
The gangs we have now are troglodytes with automatic weapons.
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pjp
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | And not one innocent civilian was killed. That's why nobody uses the term "organized crime" to refer to the gangs we have now. |
In some circles, colloquially referred to as lolgov.
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