Back In The Day - Tales from the Hood

12/08/2004

Car Chase = Car Crash

One day Indi,Payaso,D and Myself were cruising around in the neighborhood looking for any outside hostiles who were at the time coming around and crossing us out where ever we had our names written on a wall.
Now this is something you just don't do without some type of relatiation. Everyone knows that is showing disrespect and will be dealt with one way or the other. Always has and always will be.
We were turning left on Scott onto Echo Park Ave when we spotted a lowrider that wasn't one of ours so we followed it. It had a full load of vatos in it and Indio who was driving saw one of them who he knew was from the other gang and as they looked back at us we started to chase them.
I always got a kick out of chases! It was a thrill filled with excitement and danger, not knowing what would happen to us or to them. We had at times done this before and the next thing you know we're all stopped somewhere and then it turns into a free-for-all! I'm not ashamed to say that we kicked ass and when your out-numbered the plan is to be much more agressive! This is what we did and it saved our asses many a time!

So as Indio was right on their tail we chased them all around the streets until they turned up Morton ave and headed toward the park. We continued to be right on them as now we're going through the park past Scott and Barstow toward where the Fire Academy or Navel Reserve Building. By now we are flying right past it and at the end of the road there is a split. You make a right turn or follow the sharp turn to the left.

We were going to fast to make this turn yet the car in front did it ok but as we tried to we couldn't slow down fast enough and lost control as we skidded into the rail to where it ends then into the chain link fence that separates us from the passing cars on the freeway. We tore right through it but it still stopped us just short of any real danger. Our car wouldn't start at all. Remember those "TWIST" i mention every once in a while?
The other car,these guys we were maddly chasing now came to a complete stop just up the road about 50 yards. You would think that they would have seen this as an oppertunity to kick some ass (ours)....right??
Yeah...right! But it didn't happen! and you know why? go ahead and guess......
I'll tell you, because i don't think you would figure it out or believe it!
They stopped aright! They even got out of their car! but the strange thing is...
They Ran Away!!! You heard right - THEY RAN AWAY!
There were more vatos in that ride than us, they had the perfect oppertunity to rush us and Fuck-Us-Up! but they didn't! Man!....whats up with that? Now this particular gang was big! Remember..we were only around 35 or so and not too much more than that.
Its funny, but some of the guys who joined us WERE from that gang not to mention others as well. We only took in those who weren't afraid to fight regardless of how many we were up against.
Now I'm not even about to make this shit up or brag, i'm just saying simply thats what WE were about. WE had the respect of others only because WE earned it and "proved ourselves" thats all. I am also not trying to give anyone the impression that we were SUPER BAD or TOUGH! WE JUST WERE!!
I believe it still might be that way, yet its just not the same anymore when some fools let a gun speak for them instead of their fists.(win or lose) Wheres the Honor? My X-homies still get down from what i hear and i'm proud of my old neighborhood for that and have alot of respect for that Old School mentality, but thats as far as it goes with me - I am a nobody and glad for it! I gotta admit - WE WERE CRAZY when it came down to blows!

So these guys took off in the other direction! The Nerve!
I'll tell you, I had this lil steel bar that was shaped like a candy cane and as soon as i was able to get out of the car and seen these guys take off, I ran to their car and began busting it up good! The windows, tail lights and head lights everything!
Only one problem....We were stranded with no more car and how were we gonna get back to the hood? Indio was pissed at me because there was glass everywhere and we needed their car to get back. We all had to pretty much sit on it even though it saw a short drive back - still!
We jumped in and drove off, the keys were still in it..How Dumb!
As we went down to Morton and Echo Park ave. Indio parked it in the gas station and we just left it there...all busted up. The next day somebody spray-painted it putting our hood on it then later it was lit-up like a christmas tree. I think it was an old 50ish black Ford..I remember it was something like that. If it happened to be yours...sorry!
(he-he) Thats what you get for running away and then leaving the KEYS in it!!

Well...Thats it!

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*poem


BROWN TEARS

HOW CAN I MAKE YOU HEAR
HOW CAN I MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEAR
IS IT BECAUSE A BULLET IS TO FREE ME FROM THIS FEAR

HOW CAN I KNOW IF MY DESTINY IS HEAVEN OR HELL
FROM THE BAD THINGS THAT I DONE IS HARD TO TELL
AND THE NIGHTS THAT I SPENT IN THE JAIL CEL

I TRY TO WALK THAT STRAIGHT LINE
BUT THE FEELING OF A NINE IN MY SPINE
MAKES ME CARRY A GAT TO FEEL FINE
DIPPING BULLETS IN THE NIGHT

HIT MY HOMIES THAT WERE IN SIGHT
AND IT FEEDS THE HATE WHICH IS CARVED IN MY MIND
IM READY TO FIGHT THAT'S WHY PEACE I CAN'T NO LONGER FIND THIS IS OUR CRAZY
LIFE WHERE PULLING TRIGGERS WE SURVIVE

THE GAME IS NOT FOR THE WEAK MINDED THAT'S WHY THEY COMMIT SUICIDE
SO YOU BETTER SEE WHERE YOUR STEPPING CUZ YOU DONT WANNA GET BLASTED
BY ONE OF THE HOMIES WHO DOESN'T CARE IF HE IS ARRESTED

CUZ IT'S LIVE OR DIE FOR THE PRIDE
IT'S BAD CUZ WE CAN'T EVEN TAKE A WALK IN THE PARK
AND YOU BETTER BE STRAPPED AFTER DARK

-- by CHUCO




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