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Following yesterday's alert about an increase in gang activity last night and tonight, one reader writes in saying that "the faces of three Brooklyn women have been slashed ... The Bloods are out all day and tonight working on their initiations. Supposedly they have to slice 31 people to get initiated into the gang?" And another reader writes, "I have a friend at a hospital uptown, and she said word is that a few victims are currently being treated."
Meanwhile, NYC the Blog updated their post with word from a message board that this isn't a rumor, "officers in precincts all over NY and NJ have been issued memos and put on high alert. The Bloods initiation is today, tomorrow (Halloween), and Saturday. People who want to be initiated into the gang must each kill 31 women (women of all ages) in drive by shootings." They really set the bar high in this gang!
Well, truth or rumor, knife-slicing or drive-by, it never hurts to be extra cautious out there, kiddos. Especially if you're in Williamsburg! More on the current gangs of New York here.
UPDATE: Late the day, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly sought to quell fears about gang violence, "Halloween is the season of rumors. We know nothing specific about this threat. We've heard it because people were talking about what's out there, on the internet, but we have no specific information to indicate that there's any validity to this rumor."
NY1 adds, "Kelly said Halloween is always a night for potential vandalism and police will be on heightened alert."
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Must each kill 31 people? Hahahahha. People are so easily stirred up.
does the 31 mean anything in particular,
besides 31 flavors at BR.
31 is the number of secret herbs and spices in KFC chicken.
Kill 31 people? That's nuthin'. To join my gang you've got to kill 62 people and eat them.
Will nicely flush the Midwesterners out of NYC.
If you don't get killed by one of the many gang initiates committing mass murder, make sure not to eat pop rocks and drink cola together. Also be on the lookout for organ harvesters.
Don't they have these rumors every year?
Is there any real, fact-checked evidence that this exists?
Otherwise, I think it's safe to throw it in the garbage bin along with warnings about gang initiations involving klling drivers who flash their lights, slashing faces to get $1.50 and killing women at Wal-Mart, among many, many others.
just the same, shoot first and ask questions later.
this isn't a joke and it could happen to you.
read this story written by a man who lived
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/ny_local/1997/11/02/1997-11-02_box_cutter_slash_cut_to_his_.html
imagine being a woman with a slashed-up face.
Doesn't anyone at NYC The Blog have access to Snopes?
It's arguable, but there are supposedly around 15,000 active members of the bloods, so at 31 each is roughly 465,000 initiation murders.
Yeah, I don't deny there are violent gangs, but c'mon people, have a little common sense.
Surely they mean in GTA?
"imagine being a woman with a slashed-up face"
It is better for men to have their faces slashed?
I'm not worried.
Do Halo 3 and WoW kills count? If so then this story is believable.
All gang members should recieve capital punishment without trial. They prey on the weak and innocent and do not deserve a place in civilized society. Im sick of my tax dollars being used to house and feed these losers. I say execute them all - yeah, even the 10 year olds. They will just grow up to be losers too.
But someone's gotta bag my groceries!
Looks like I'm going as a baseball player and a huge f'n louisville slugger!
Can't wait for gentrification to make such activities exclusive to Newburgh and Poughkeepsie.
Hehehehe. Thats what senior citizens are for. Sorry dad.....
Holla.
NYC The Blog here! (well, not really the blog, you know, I mean, like the blog isn't writing this comment, it's me Paolo!)
Anyways, fwiw, I just wanted to note that it was a poster on Yahoo Answers that wrote "officers in precincts all over NY and NJ have been issued memos and put on high alert. The Bloods initiation is today, tomorrow (Halloween), and Saturday. People who want to be initiated into the gang must each kill 31 women (women of all ages) in drive by shootings." as the Gothamist post here might be construed as to imply that NYC The Blog stated that.
I live next to the police station. I'm going to ask them on my way out of the building. I will update you with my findings.
@paolo - thanks, we're clearing that up.
@jencarlsonsux - you can report comments by clicking the "report this" link to the right of comments. And I leave about 90% of the crappy comments directed at me up (example).
sounds like today is a good day to try my soda bottle silencer/suppressor.
anyway anything happened last night for Devil's Night? since it's customarily on Oct. 30th.
I'd like to report jencarlsonsux as an asshole for suggesting anyone get their face slashed.
I just asked the police. They said it's a rumor that has many people worried, but it's unverified and unfounded. They have heard no reports of women in the hospital uptown with slashed faces and they have received no memos warning them of attacks.
They said, "this has rumor has been passed around every year for the last 18 years and nothing has ever come of it."
They're just warming up for the riots and mayhem if Obama loses, (or wins).
does pete realize mid western cities have way more gang violence than NYC does?
St. Louis is a shithole.
@VanessNYC -- Thanks for checking.
@VanessaNYC, no doubt this might all be rumor and innuendo, but with that said, the 25th Precinct in E. Harlem said on the phone yesterday that they advised after school programs in the area to close because of information they were receiving about increased gang activity. As well, the 90th precinct in W'burg just noted on the phone that although they haven't heard of cancellations there, they have beefed up their presence due to concerns they have.
I just asked the police. They said it's a rumor that has many people worried, but it's unverified and unfounded. They have heard no reports of women in the hospital uptown with slashed faces and they have received no memos warning them of attacks.
They said, "this has rumor has been passed around every year for the last 18 years and nothing has ever come of it."
Funny. I have two unrelated friends who are high ranking officers for the NYPD, in two different boroughs of NYC and both have said that gang initiations are high on their lists of things to watch out for tonight. They did not mention slashing or any particular race, or sex, but they have said to "stay alert."
However, on Snopes, although this particular alert is not on there, all of the news and email alerts about Blood and Crip initiations have been labeled as falsehoods.
I'm pretty sure we will all be ok 2nite. I think the media and police like to do these warning when they know large amounts of people will be gathering in places around the city etc.
Kill 31 people, get 31 virgins?
The Bloods are all Obama cult members. Watch out Gothamist Hipsters, they will cut you even though you belong to the same cult!
Shit, maybe i shouldn't wear that Crip costume to the party i'm going to in the east bronx.
Kid in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, red bandanna on his head.
Friends: "what the F*KC you wearin' that for?"
Kid w/ bandanna: "I'm a blood."
Friends: "You dumb ass you gonna get shot. Take that shit off."
Even the kids know...gangs are so 1992.
I heard about this NY gang that will initiate new members tonight by making them shove bicyclists.
wow!
apparently this exact same initiation has spread to North Carolina.
The gangs are more organized than our government, it seems.
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/police/police-gang-warnings-an-urban-myth-217224.html
that's freakin funny,
I didn't know there are bloods and crips in Rocky Mount NC, Durham maybe. the article also notes another initiation on Friday the 13th, to murder 31 people.
http://wjz.com/local/gang.initiation.2.853695.html
This is insane. Watch out for razors in the candy.
All you crazy liberals think this country is going to be all about peace and prosperity in the future.
Civil war is coming your way. All of you will know human blood in greater amounts than you ever thought possible.
Buckle up.
Yeah, Helter Skelter totally happened the last time it was predicted
Paolo,
Yes, the officers acknowledged that after school programs uptown had been canceled, but they basically said that it's much ado about nothing. (Of course, they didn't quote Shakespeare.)
Seriously. People think about it. Each person who wants to be in the gang has to kill 31 women?
never hurts to be safe, I say.
today is difficult to tell (half) normal people from the real wackos. if you've got nothing good to do, just stay at home... like me. I'm bored!
classy
Hopefully they only slash Gothamist editors
sure, it's a rumor
but, groups that include young women are canceling their events until the rumor dies down: a young woman i know is involved in a hiphop dance group that canceled all rehearsals this week because of the supposed threat to young women.
The point is there is no threat other than the normal everyday dangers of living in NYC.
People are free to live their life in fear of the boogeyman and alter their behavior based on unsubstantiated rumors but it is a sucky way to live.
@jterry121 -- keep it up.
I think the rumor underscores the fact that there is gang violence and that the public, understandably, is worried about it. Sure, the details of this rumor seem outlandish, but if you told me gangs would be walking around Williamsburg with machetes, I'd have thought that was outlandish, too.
"All you crazy liberals think this country is going to be all about peace and prosperity in the future.
Civil war is coming your way. All of you will know human blood in greater amounts than you ever thought possible.
Buckle up."
Thanks for the beets, Mr. Schrute!
i can see you people have straightened out this rumor mess and have the situation under control...i'll sleep good tonite...thanks...
So the Blood have a *group* initiation which they announce beforehand and takes place on a day with heavy police presence just about everywhere???
Think about it.
Has everyone in NYC turned completely stupid?
LMAO@ "bloods" in new york
these cornballs are lame as fuck. the whole blood thing is all L.A, fuckin wannabe's
fuck new york
dirty durham!
This is actually quite scary. On Thursday (I guess officially Friday) a friend and I were walking along Lorimer near Driggs at 1am. A guy drove up in a car and robbed us at gunpoint whilst wearing a mask from the movie Scream... Perhaps it was related? Yikes.
Gangs are so lame. Unfortunately, providing coverage about them, even in blogs like this, grants them some cred. Little babies, can't think for themselves.
Civil war is coming your way. All of you will know human blood in greater amounts than you ever thought possible.
Buckle up.
Immediately after posting, Polemicist proceeded with his revolutionary planning by drinking half a six of Bud, masturbating, and passing out on his mom's couch with his hand down his pants.
The Fordham Baldies started this rumor.
Considering Media types antagonize and sling mud all day, is amazing how thin skinned they are.
@Polemicist - You dumb redneck- go screw your sister and jack off into a confederate flag, you waste of human life.
LOL! @ Virgil
Aren't "The Bloods" in LA? I thought "The Bloods" in NYC were bored wannabes.
"a young woman i know is involved in a hiphop dance group that canceled all rehearsals this week because of the supposed threat to young women."
Hmmm, I haven't heard anything about ballet classes or church square dances being cancelled.
I wonder why?
bloods in NYC is like the gas crisis skit on
David Allan Grier's Chocolate News.
3 gang bangers on a bicycle doing a ride by.
You Crackers don't know how to start a good rumor. It should have said 31 white people. Try and get it right.
The racists like #64 ^ on this blog should grow up before Daddy unplugs the computer, or Jen removes racist posts.
Cr*cker=N*igger, neither of which are nice.
#53...you're a cornball on the westside.
Hate NY so much, stick to LAist.
ps. I've lived in LA, there's plenty of lames out there.
#65 You wouldn't know a racist if it bit you.
#65 and by the way, this from the Wiki people:
"Cracker", sometimes "white cracker", is a pejorative term for a white person, mainly used in the Southern United States.
I hate to state the obvious, but printing unsubstantiated rumors, even on a blog like Gothamist, is irresponsible.
it is called "eating food" the OG (original gangster) tells the ones who are pledging initiation to bring him a plate with # he requires. these initiations in New York were common in the late 90's and even as late as 2004 but under the UBN (United Blood Nation) no real OG would allow or require these initiations. although Halloween and any Friday 13th is known as "Bloody Friday" throughout NYC's Bloods Gang History. and i amposting this because i have actual facts and first hand experience!
Living in the South means that on Halloween we have to worry about Meth heads coming out and killing people out of parinoia. It's not often, but if you end up on their property....you may not be seen alive.
If you live in hill country....forget it...you can't go trick or treating because all your neighbors are meth heads and have their land booby trapped so don't drive on their land or you will end up buried under their porch....no joke
The south doesn't have as much of a gang problem as the coast's do...I know when I lived in Boston that some gang activity was near where we lived (Somerville)....