The gang situation in my town has always been a problem. In the 1980’s the Bloods and Crips moved in so fast that we became a known for our gang activity and then those who didn’t have gang affiliation but wanted to, pretended to.
Over the years it has become just another part of our society and we’ve learned to live with it. We know which areas to avoid at night and other places to stay away from entirely. We are perfectly aware of the fact that carnivals and fairs are gangster hotbeds and that 7-11 on the corner, two doors down from a police station, is not exactly the smartest place to be…ever.
Now it seems there is another place we have to get used to not going later in the evenings, the local cemetery.
What was once a demand from the public to eradicate the goth kids every October is now an outraged outcry for something to be done about the gang members throwing wild alcohol-serving, sex-having, drug induced parties atop the graves of their fallen brethren.
It seems that some of our more concerned citizens have reported the parties to the police and now we find ourselves in somewhat of a moral and legal quandary.
Here’s the thing. Having a party in a cemetery at a friend or family member’s graveside is not in itself illegal because it is considered a memorial however we are talking about known gang members, public drunkenness and public sex and for sure some serious mary-jane smoking, powder snorting, pill taking and needle using.
The cemetery these gangsters are gathering in is open until the wee hours of the morning so my question is who the hell besides the goth kids and gangsters is going to the cemetery in the middle of the night?
Now, our town has had a gang task force for quite some time and they are so familiar with the gang member’s profiles that should be like homies amongst each other. You know some of the gang members the P.D. is keeping track of, have some warrants out there. You also know that the police can arrest them for public drunkenness alone, so why are the police watching the parties and not doing anything?
Somehow this creates a very funny scenario in my head that goes like this:
An Old woman with gray-blue hair in rollers stands at her window nervously gripping the curtains that she hides behind. Her wrinkled eyelid blinks several times as she focuses her sight through the slight slit in the curtains and onto the cemetery across the street.
Directly across from her house a group of Mexican and black gang members are gathered. They are having a party, illuminated by the headlights from their cars as they dance, talk and laugh all the while mindlessly screwing and toking at the same time.
The old woman looks over her shoulder at her husband who sits blissfully ignorant of anything that comes out of her mouth and says,
“Harold there’s them gangers over there again. They just keep fucking and smoking. They have no business over there…and fucking right next to Aunt Ethel’s grave too, and blowing that nasty iguana smoke everywhere. I can
smell it from here. Can’t you smell it? That’s it, I’m calling down to supervisor Tom and telling him to get these bastards out of that cemetery.”
That’s how I imagine it happening anyway. There really is a Supervisor named Tom in my town. He’s the city manager and just recently he released a gang member from jail so that he could attend the funeral of a fellow gang member. He was told to return to jail at a specified time. This particular gang member was the leader of a gang that was recently raided by the swat team or gang force or whatever they all it. He was captured during the raid and there has been a bit of a gang war between the P. D and the gangs since. As to be expected the gang member did NOT return to jail so he basically escaped and they haven’t caught him yet.
I for one did not know that the city manager had the authority to release inmates from jail. Does this mean any city employee can release prisoners? This is some strange stuff indeedy!
Anyway back to what I was saying. I don’t know for sure but I’m assuming the people reporting these gang members are probably older but they aren’t telling the rest of us. There aren’t any houses around the cemetery so this makes me question how anyone knows for sure there are gang members congregating there in the middle of the night to party.
Now, here’s some irony for you. Guess what else happens at the cemetery late at night this time of the year…except for the Goth kids? The Mexicans around here are celebrating the Day of the
dead. This means that both Latino and black gang members want to be at the same place at the same time. I wonder what the Asian gangs are doing this time of year. Anyone know? I should check into that. We usually hear more about them around the Chinese New Year.
I figure that to be the best time for gang members to be there. At least if they’re there in the middle of the night they aren’t bothering anyone else during the day. Not to mention if they are going to start shooting each other up, the graveyard is the perfect place for death and there most likely won’t be any innocent bystanders accidentally shot in the back of the head. Except maybe the goth kids.
This raises another issue all together. Where are the goth kids? Are they still going to the cemetery? Have they found a new cemetery or some other location to hold séances? Have they struck a truce with the gang members? Are the goth kids gang members? Are the rest of the city’s citizens concerned for the safety of the goth kids because they know they’re the only ones out there at that time of the night? Is it the goth kids’ parents who are reporting the gangsters? Have the goth kids earned the right to congregate there after all these years? Why does anyone care about the safety of the goth kids when every year before it was the goth kids being thrown out of the cemetery? Hmmmm so many questions….
This has become such a dilemma that nobody is doing anything about it except for whining and making a big deal of it. The police aren’t making any arrests, some laws are being broken, the city doesn’t know if they are breaking any laws, the citizens are at odds about how it should be handled, the gang members don’t give a damn, we’ve lost track of the goth kids and in the meantime the newspapers are blowing it out of proportion.
So, the city council has decided to pass a law mandating that parties can’t be thrown or had in the cemetery. What a bunch of idiots.
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