I know for a fact that the mafia is still around. I think they mostly profit from gambling, deals with the city with fake companies or companies that don't actually work, overbill, etc. (one of the big news items of the past few years was "the hired truck scandal" - trucks would show up at road construction sites and guys would leave, sleep, smoke, play cards, etc. and nothing got hauled.)
If they ARE involved in drugs at all it is at the highest importer/wholesale level. Because the heroin here is pretty much run by some black people, and I know they get a bunch of it from Memphis. Funny story for you Bill:
Over by where I live there's an area my cop uncle calls "The Patch"- where Joey "The Clown" Lombardo lived and a whole bunch of other mob guys still live right on the edge of a crap neighborhood called Humboldt Park. I had a boyfriend who lived over there last winter and after/during the first big snowstorm we had last year, his street was one of the first to get plowed. I was shocked. There's a couple of "members only neighborhood associations" (really bars with weird hours and hookers and gambling and you are NOT allowed to go there) and a couple of really big crazy houses with high stone walls that have that "Mediterranean" look in the middle of all the two/3 flat brownstones.
i dont see the big deal, 2 bags aint shit to get a new connect that has fire dope
you should of told them you want like 5subs and the connect and you would have got him a couple bags
lets just say I missed and my foot looks like a balloon.
lets just say I missed and my foot looks like a balloon.
i was talkin to verso about it, i understand your point and how you know the connect alreadyIt's the principle of it though. If you loosely know the person with the connect then paying a tax isn't a big deal. But if it's a person that you've known for a while, and hooked them up with your connects without taxing them at all, then it's fucked up for them to tax you when the situation is reversed. There is a difference though between a regular middleman, and a friend that you do dope with and both have your own connects, and help eachother out if either of you needs a new connect.
Regular middlemen are just random junkies that tax people to get a free fix since there is no way that they could support their own habit. This goe on until they get too strung out to continue, at which point they will usually give you their connect for free. It usually happens when they are desperate and will do it for just a ride, or if they are going to rehab and giving away their connects so you don't call them for dope when they get out of rehab and are trying to stay clean.
if he didnt end up givn the guy to you, then you dont give him the bags...simple as that...watch howfast he would change his mind if oyu decided to not give him the bags^ There's no guarantee that he would have ever given my the connect anyway. In fact, I'm relatively sure he would have made up some excuse for why his guy won't meet me.
Anyway, I felt like such a badass dealing with this kid...
I felt like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPmTp9up26w
"senator, you can have my answer now if you'd like... my offer is this:
And chinky, if you were hurting or you just wanted to go through someone else when your guys' bags have fallen off, wouldn't you want someone to help you out without the headache of having to pick the person up, take the ride out there, throw him bags, and all that nonsense? It's a pain in the ass, and I just don't think it's worth it, and it's not how I operate or do business.
If I know you, you're a friend of mine and I can vouch for you, and you're hurting and need someone to hook it up... I'll call up my guy, get the OK, and then give you his number. Then you can go on and see him directly and you don't need to throw me anything. It makes you happy, makes my dealer happy, and it makes me happy because I don't have to get off my ass and do the running around for a lousy two bags. I'd rather just pay for my bags. lol
EDIT: And besides, if your dealer is worth his salt, he'll probably hook you up the next time you see him for bringing him new business. Mine certainly would and has before...
Eh, hope that's an exaggeration but shit if my foot was way swelled up I'd be heading right to the er. There's no way I want to have a nub instead of a foot.
of course i wouldnt want the hassle but thats not realistic, no one just gives up their connect for nothing..and IMO 2 bags isnt shit for a new connect, even if hey idnt ask for anything in return i would stll throw them a ouple bags out of principle..hell i dont give my dudes number to anyone for anyreason, not money, not dome, since i got it over 2years ago ive never shared it with anyone..and i wouldnt still