Not me, but back when I was living in Winnipeg, I knew these dudes that were referred to as the ’‘Trenchcoat Mafia’’ by quite a lot of people, because they always wore trenchcoats, even if it was all hot outside. They were a bit intimidating, so people imagined the worse I guess, and were obviously a big group of friends, most of them self procklaimed devil worshipers. I remember two of them being in the paper for having caused heavy damage to a church in the area.
I spoke to a few of them, usually for exchanging cigarettes lol, and while they just seemed this ragtag band of local troublemakers, there did seem to have a bit of a systematic thing going on. Like how every person in that clique had some kind of unique job, but I’m probably reading way too much into character presentation at that point, since I never really got to know any of them personally.
One guy kept the fingernails on one of his hands hideously long and painted them black, he seemed to be the ’‘group leader’’. Scary looking bugger too, but most of them were. It’s like they all did the most they could to stand out in a crowd.
Anyways, from what I may have observed, which is admittedly not too much, people didn’t follow his ’‘orders’’ or anything, but just seemed to go along with anything he said or did. It was actually kind of fascinating sometimes. Other people I knew in that part of the hood despised him, but he was known.
All those fuckers stood out, whether one had long ass hair and the other looked like a skinhead, or one had long fingrnails, but they all had those ugly trenchcoats they never seemed to wash, and were obviously some clique, and someone in there, my guess is the long fingernail guy, had his own minions.
At that same time, there were also all the ’‘gangster’’ wannabees that weren’t actually gangsters. This one guy nicknamed ’‘Taz’’ was obviously some sort group leader. That guy I told you about earlier, with the Freddy Kruger hand, Taz hated him. Once I’m walking around, and he accosts me, asking why I talk to that ’‘Alden dude’’. I don’t remember the conversation too much, but it involved me not knowing who ’‘Taz’’ was, (until that evening) and he was all like, YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF TAZ?? Seriously so many people liked this guy. I’ll never know why though, he was such a fuckup. Maybe Alden and his dumb buddies went around busting shit up and scaring people, but they never hurt anyone physically.
So based on that, I don’t think I’d want to be some type of figurehead, not in that way. Either everyone wants to kick your ass, or nobody knows who you are when you think they should lol. Too much hassle for what it’s worth. I wonder if any of those peeps from my teen years became politicians lol.
I guess you weren’t asking about gangs, or feeble attempts thereof, but it’s an interesting question I felt like answering, with something that’s at least somewhat relevant.
If I had my own posse though, we’d just sit around watching low budget zombie movies all night haha.
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