The Canadian biker mass murder

http://www.bandidosmc.ca/

http://news.sky.com/story/1485785/nine-killed-in-waco-biker-gang-shootout-report

Nine dead in Waco, apparently the Banditos again.

Bandidos, even.

Interesting that most news coverage isn't mentioning the gangs by name (Bandidos and Coassacks).

Or three gangs (Scimitars as well) according to this article.

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/police/update-p-m-officials-say-more-biker-gang-members-headed/article_37addf70-e4e5-505a-98b4-ecbef08a2a87.html

UPDATE, 5:00 p.m.: Officials are hearing reports and seeing evidence of many biker gang members coming into town from throughout the state. In response, police are moving some witnesses to a secure location, said Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton.

I ate at a Chili's next to that Twin Peaks once, they had some kind of awful bikini carwash going on in the middle of a Sunday afternoon.

And here I was thinking modern bikers were the most prominent LARPers.

I have a cousin who works at a Twin Peaks. I've never been there, or to Hooters.

Imagine a town with so little culture/history that Hooters/Twin Peaks became the biker dive bar. That's Waco.

Hey that's my favorite breastaurant

Even in areas with a number of biker bars, breastaurants remain pretty popular IME - because, you know, boobs.

Related to the thread title but not today's news, an article on the reemergence of Hells Angels in Quebec.

I tell ya, a google image search for "waco twin peaks" is a study in contrasts right now.

http://i.imgur.com/DNlxZZd.jpg

Still safer at a Waco Twin Peaks than a Killeen Luby's, that's what my pappy always told me.

http://www.wfaa.com/picture-gallery/news/crime/2015/05/18/mugshots-waco-biker-gang-shooting/27543607/

Good Lord, how long is this slideshow.

LA Times offer 50+ paragraphs including this final nod:

The Sunday violence was one of the largest showdowns with law enforcement in Waco since a federal siege of a cult’s compound left about 80 people dead in 1993.

Oh, right. THAT'S where I had heard the name before.

Seriously love so many of those mug shots. As good as Chuck Close's polaroid studies.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/waco-texas-biker-gang-shooting.html?_r=0

“We have been doing this for 18 years, and we never had a problem,” said Gimmi Jimmy, national ambassador for the Bandidos and the state chairman for the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents, which oversees the local branches. “We discuss things like biker rights, but no individual club business is talked about.”

The Cossacks — Mr. Jimmy did not want to be quoted using the club’s name, referring to it instead as “the other side” — were not part of the meeting, but the Bandidos were. Eight Cossacks and one Bandido were killed in the gunfight, he said. “The only reason I am not in jail,” he added, “is that I got there late.”

looks like being a biker really ages people

first 8-1 since barcelona huesca six months ago

well how about that - a soccer joke that made me laugh.

Seriously love so many of those mug shots. As good as Chuck Close's polaroid studies.

so many identical blue eyes. surely a lot of these dudes are coming from the same gene pool.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/12/us/waco-texas-biker-shootout-new-video/index.html

All charges dropped in the Waco shootout:

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/03/709432311/texas-prosecutor-drops-all-charges-in-2015-biker-shootout-that-killed-9

That's crazy.