Ever since the assault on 33-year-old Manhattan resident Alexian Lien by a group of motorcyclists (or "MOTOR PSYCHOS," as the New York Post dubbed them on its Oct. 1 front page), the two papers have been chasing bikers-gone-wild stories down to the ends of the earth. This is the stuff tabloids are made of: Exposing the menace of criminal hooliganism in all of its innovative new forms. "Bronx motorcycle gxxg thug guilty in pee-shooting," reads an Oct. 11 Post headline about a "Bronx motorcycle-club boss ... convicted of attempted murder ... for shooting a man who relieved himself near a buddy’s bike" outside a bar on East Tremont Ave. Then, in today's Post, in an article titled "New bikers are hell" on page 17 of the print edition: New York City’s biker woes will get worse unless cops increase enforcement — because arch rivals of the Hells Angels are moving in and violence is likely to follow, the nation’s top expert on motorcycle gxxgs told The Post. “It’s a powder keg,” warned Steve Cook, a Kansas City-area cop who has trained peers on how to deal with biker gxxgs and has worked with the NYPD. Late this afternoon, nypost.com and nydailynews.com were leading with the dramatic caught-on-camera tale of a "would-be motorcycle thief in Brazil who tried to pull off a daring heist" when he jumped off his buddy's bike and tried to steal another one at gunpoint while stopped at a traffic light. [ Read the rest... ] |
Posted by HELLRAISER on Tuesday 15 October 2013 - 13:00:06 | Read/Post Comment: 0 |
Australian Police raid bikers one day, recruit them the next Google will reportedly refund two Australian dollars – that's $US1.89 or £1.19 – after an ad placed by Victoria Police appeared on the website of the Mongols motorcycle club. The backdrop to the refund is a dramatic series of raids last Thursday that saw Victoria Police, providers of thin blue line as a service for the Australian State of Victoria, storm 60 premises suspected of being used by the local chapter of the Hell's Angels and other “outlaw” motorcycle gxxgs. Other Australian States have engaged in similar activity of late, and laws preventing gxxg members from associating are passing Australian parliaments with disconcerting speed and frequency. Footage of a rather substantial gate bearing Hell's Angels insignia being torn from a clubhouse's hinges have been all over the news for days. Australia's army has been called in to help with follow-up raids. Later coverage of the raids has suggested that some gxxg members have attempted to hide their tracks by adopting the colours of different gxxgs, with the US-based Mongols motorcycle club reportedly finding it has rather a lot of new Australian members. As investigations into the Mongols unfurled, its web site was discovered, complete with Google ads … for Victoria Police's latest recruitment drive. Marketing magazine B&T reports the ad generated 200 clicks, but once news of the ads' presence hit the media something else hit the fan. B&T says Victoria's Police Minister has laid the blame at Google's door, insisting the Chocolate Factory has not matched keywords correctly. Said Minister demanded, and says he has received, a refund of the full two dollars and is now assuring the public none of its hard-earned was spent sustaining motorcycle gxxgs, anywhere, ever. And the Mongols? There's an odd space at the bottom of the group' site that looks rather ad-shaped but is greyed out. There's also one live ad, for bail bond services. Sadly it links to the Mongols' own site. And before you ask: Yes, now's the time for cracks about only criminals hosting Google ads. ® http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/15/google_refunds_two_dollars_for_cop_jobs_ad_on_bikie_website/ |