Word: ganging
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...feel if someone got badly stabbed tonight, and died, by the same people that did this?" The teenager, who is mysteriously wearing a clean shirt turned inside out, admits that the wound, from a box cutter, was received in a fight with members of the Junior Horse Pack gang. The name is new to the police but "that's not surprising," says police inspector Jason Hewett. "They can form overnight and be gone the next day. Some of them we hear of once and never hear of again...
...would be happy never to hear of any of them again. "I get completely sick of them," he says. The youth gang members, sporting baseball hats, baggy trousers and colored scarves, are armed and hyper-aggressive, and speak in a rapper idiom straight out of south-central Los Angeles. Ott mimics their delivery: "I'd like to say to these kids, 'Hey, wake up, bro. You are not going to bust a cap in my mo'fo' ass. You live in a suburban street in Counties Manukau...
...futureworld. All fuels have been depleted in this cartoon-ageddon, and the only source of energy left is feces. To stockpile this precious element, citizens are obliged to defecate in public chambers and rewarded for their pains with Juicy Bars - poopsicles, if you will. The Diaper Gang, Smurf-like gangstas addicted to Juicy Bars, do the bidding of their Vaderesque overlord, the Diaper King, and have suicidal turf fights with the two outlaws of the title. Aachi and Ssipak's mission: to save Beautiful, the porn actress, with or without the help of the late Jimmy the Freak...
...much like women who lack the winsome gene. That's not a problem for Frank, and the course of their love and his rehabilitation runs relatively smoothly. This is in contradistinction to life in the Krzeminski mob back in Buffalo. They are being decimated by the rival O'Leary gang, whose sneering, sadistic leader (Dennis Farina) is in no mood to take prisoners. A sober Frank's odds-balancing presence is now required, and - guess what? - Frank is going to require a little help from Laurel to get all the circles squared...
...because they have few treatment resources, a difficult clientele, little public support and must deal with mixed messages from those wanting both rehabilitation and punishment. In California, the problem is exacerbated because the system is so huge. There have been numerous management changes and varied missions, we have severe gang problems within the prison population and our parole and sentencing systems are extremely complex...