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Used to do lots of work with US Marshals, ATF, others in the 90's during DC's 'City Under Siege' saga when crack first hit the hoods.

The Marshals were mostly good ol' buoyz, even the bruthers in the USM were good ol' buoyz. Anyways, they would always tell me I should be carrying a piece. They would see me get them entry into crack houses via surreptitious entry methods & thought I was nuts not to be carrying. Couple guys even seriously offered to get me a lil heater, off the books & off the record.

I always declined their offer. To carry a piece in DC has heavy penalties & I'd say to them that the laws were so harsh on unlicensed possession of a firearm that I'd get nailed with a long sentence if the gun were ever found on me.

The immediate response from the USM buoyz, every time we had that convo, was simple: 'better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.'

 

I haven't really had guys follow me around in their cars or trucks, but I have had guys drive up to me when I'm unloading my bort and telling me ''It's flat today! Nothing to see here dude! Don't waste your time!'' and then they drive away. Clearly I don't trust them and it's almost always some d!ck trolling me, whenever this happens. Cause I'll walk up to the beach anyway and conditions will be more than fine.

 

Yeah man. I keep an 18 in rigid pipe wrench in my truck. Along with some brass knucks. But i gotta say, i think that pipe wrench is a better call. No one wants a pipe wrench to the face

 

Lose the brass knuckles. If you hit someone with something and it's only use is to do harm you're getting in trouble.

Pipe wrench: your honor, I picked up the first thing I could and swung. He was a maniac, he came right for me.

Brass knuckles: oh these? They're a paper weight that I'm holding for a friend. Not mine. I don't have them with the intent to hurt people. They're a paper weight remember.

Leave the brass knuckles on your desk in your house. On top of papers.

Be able to explain and justify any type of weapon with a non-violent purpose.

 

A buddy and I got got to see the inside of a cop car one night... While we were in there, the cops searched his truck and found a club. The cop walks back to the car, opens the back door and says, "what's this for?" My buddy says, "Tt's a piece of wood. I'm a carpenter." The cop says, "yea?" and throws it into the phragmites.

Never found the contraband... but found the baton. Probably an LCMR grad.

 

I used to keep a machete in my car, I figured I'd tell the cop it was for yard work. It got taken from me on a stop and search not far from home. Years later, when I was a reporter doing the police blotter for the local weekly, detective Ralph gave it back to me before a police auction. He walks in the room holding it with a big grin and says, I believe this is yours. I was stunned.

 

Had not considered this. This is the type of info I come to internet forums for.

 

Moteef? Ainobody in Misippy got any mo teef.