You can tell that I don't get out to gangland much but just curious. Is there a guide to current gang colors and how they are worn in the Atlanta Metro area ? If these guys are going to label themselves I should at least pay attention.
Colors are not so prominent any more. The gangs have figured out that law enforcement agencies are also looking at their gang colors, so they are starting to identify themselves in other ways - shoe brand is one I believe.
Not giving up my New Balance. Mark me as a member of the aging, balding, overweight, family-man gang. Yo.
I look for tattoos and how they carry themselves. some of the common places are around the eyes, face, neck, arms.
Colors of clothing and other symbols change so often that its useless to attempt to memorize all the permutations. I also rely more heavily on tats and/or clothing in tandem with behavior and speech patterns to discern who is who. Gang members want the whole world to know of their affiliation after all, which makes it relatively easy to pick them out.
It is more a combination of indicators to look for nowadays, including mannerisms, tatoos, signs and: - clothing color - designer names - sport teams - clothing manufacturers - how the clothing is oriented and worn - etc. You would be surprised how much you can find out simply by using Google. Gangbangers are notorious for posting pictures of themselves in full regalia, along with other members of their gang, on the Internet. So browse around Facebook, MySpace, etc., you will be surprised what you can learn. I remember a case that was made in part due to the photographs the banger had taken of himself standing over the body of a rival gang member, while holding the murder weapon across his chest, and FaceBook did a nice job of time stamping the post, with a couple of hours of the estimated time of death. He was gracious enough to proudly post that on FaceBook for everyone to see. They looked really great during his trial.
I am dating myself if I can recognize all of those actors by face? The only one that made me pause for half a tic was C. Thomas Howell. The other six were instant. God I feel old.
I'll say. For one thing, I've fallen through a hole in time and space, and am trapped in an alternate universe in which it is 1983, and Tom Cruise and Ralph Macchio are considered tough, and Jerry Brown is the governor of California. Oh, !
Ponyboy: Nature's first green is gold, / Her hardest hue to hold. / Her early leaf's a flower, / But only so an hour. / Then leaf subsides to leaf, / So Eden sank to grief. / So dawn goes down to day, / Nothing gold can stay. Johnny: Where did you learn that? That's what I meant. Ponyboy: Robert Frost wrote it. I always remembered it because I never quite knew what he meant. Johnny: [his last lines] Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.