Scotland gangs

[Invincible]

scotland is the knife capital of europe, unfortunately------- an estimated 50% of under 30 yr old males in glasgow carry an illegal knife

[Q]

wow

[T~]

yeah but they are mainly for show an most never get used

[Loyalheart]

yeah i'll agree alot is for show,but alot of these young teams will stab you for stupid stuff.West scotland has a serious knife culture goin on,maybe not as bad as the 60,s but still bad enough

[juniorx]

lucky for themselves that they dont have Access to Guns..

[Anonymous20]

lucky for themselves that they dont have Access to Guns..

Where would they pack them, in their stockings or skirts?

[Anonymous20]

isnt that where they cut your cheeks open and let em blow like whistles while they keep your mouth shut? i heard that somewhere

[T~]

isnt that where they cut your cheeks open and let em blow like whistles while they keep your mouth shut? i heard that somewhere

Damn..where you hear that?

[Loyalheart]

here are some gangs in glasgow,i don't know if some are still around,but these are still some of the most well known.
REDSKINS- various areas not connected
REAL CALTON TONGS
APACHE
CYTO -various areas
BOWERY
GOVAN TEAM
POWERY
BISON
DUKE STREET FIRM
BALTIC FLEET
BAL TOI

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[T~]

what are their numbers?

[Loyalheart]

Haven't got a clue,some can be as low as 15 the thing is there is so many gangs in a small city, so there numbers aren't usually that big some maybe have 50 at the most regulary meeting up to fight other gangs but thats only a few of the teams.










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[Loyalheart]

like i said on another thread glasgow has just been givin the title of, murder capital of western europe. there has been 17 or 18 murders in the first three months alot to do with shootings











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[T~]

like i said on another thread glasgow has just been givin the title of, murder capital of western europe. there has been 17 or 18 murders in the first three months alot to do with shootings

so are guns starting to replace knifes?

[Loyalheart]

i think this maybe organised rather than your typical street gang

[jimmy_tee]

Tom, all these street gangs are called NEDS, Non-Educated Deliquents.
They will stab as quick as they'll look at you and mostly all they're after is 20p, however often they'll threaten you with 'wot i fin on ya is for keeps'
Not scottish myself (Australian) i have been to Glasgow and have seen grown men (and these Scots are GROWN) walk away from NED groups.
Often the NED groups are so big, usually only like a bunch of mates from the same estate. They'll usually hang around in groups 10 to 20.
You should look up the nightclub 'Bonkers' in Glasgow.
it was the voted the most dangerous nightclub in the whole of Europe
and its an underage venue.............

[Se]

I would definatly agree that the under-18 nightclubs are 50 times more dangerous. I'm from Ireland and I remember when I used to go to the under-18s a few years ago, it was like a war zone. It was "non-Alcoholic" but all the kids were either twisted drunk, high on estacy or both. This wasn't even in a city, it was kinda out in the middle of no-where but all the youths from the surrounding towns and cities used to come, for the girls and the fights. The club would hold about 4000 people but some nights, at the holidays there would be around 6000 there, completly jammed wall to wall.

I'v seen some serious fights, with bats, belt buckles, bottles and knives and these youths would be between 13 to 17 years of age, some times a group of 50 people on 50 from a different town. I remember a few people got stabbed there. I watching from up-stairs one night, and counted, one group started 20 different fights in under 5 minutes!

But when I started to go there to an over-18 night, you'd hardly see a hand full of fights in a year. That under-age nightclub was completly mental.

[jimmy_tee]

yeah they're cracking down on those nights. Bonkers is now closed...thank god.

[londonpride]

I remenber seeing a good movie about the tongs in glasgow,based in the 70s i think...nasty,vicious fvckers.Thank god they never had guns eh.

[Loyalheart]

yeah i remember that film,think it was called small faces or the faces something like that.yeah the tongs were well known












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[Twinnee]

i'm from glasgow, stayed here all my days, and yeah its a rough place when your in an area where you don't know no one. Fuck, its even pretty rough in your own area sometimes but fuck it, thats life.

The knife culture around here is horrific and lately theres been a lot of underworld shooting since a well known gangster was killed.

I was in the (Pollok) 21 Krew when i was younger and we fought with the Young Team and The Kross.

There used to be running battles between the gangs hundreds of us all tooled up with bats, blades, hammers, axes, swords, bottles n shit like that.

anywayz........

laters

[Storm]

lucky for themselves that they dont have Access to Guns..

Despite the UK gun laws being quite strict guns are begining to get more common out here - possibly (and this is just a theory) a lot of the guns from the Irish 'conflict'/'situation'/latest word of the week have got to go somewhere now that there's a peace there (uneasy maybe but peace non the less).

Up until the early mid 80's it was - and still is in some places - more likely you'd get knifed,glassed or beaten then shot - unless you're in Manchester, London, Birmingham etc (I dont know Scotland well enough
to comment)

[Loyalheart]

i think most of the guns in this country come from eastern europe,and alot came after the balkans

[SpacerLoco]

i think most of the guns in this country come from eastern europe,and alot came after the balkans

They come from Paramilitaries in Ulster

[Loyalheart]

yeah i'll give you that one

[Loyalheart]

well the east end of glasgow is at it again a 28yr old man shot dead near his home, locals say the area he was shot suffers from gangs and believe this murder to be gang related



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[WillieCreeper]

But are there any gangs in Edinburgh or Aberdeen?

[Loyalheart]

Alright, i know edinbrough definetly has gangs , i'll get back to u with some of them, never really heard of any aberdeen gangs but i'm sure they will have some. will get some info and will be back soon


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[WillieCreeper]

Study finds fifth of 13-year-olds are in a gang

NICHOLAS CHRISTIAN


A MAJOR study of thousands of young people by Scottish researchers has revealed a fifth of 13-year-olds are members of gangs.

While a fifth of 13-year-olds were members of gangs, only 17% of those belonged to the most serious, organised gangs with names and a sign, such as Edinburgh gangs the Young Leith Team, Young Niddrie Terror or Bar Ox, from Oxgangs.

Members of organised gangs were typically boys from broken families and lower-class backgrounds. Gangs provided moral support, encouraging and excusing violence and other criminal activities, the study found.

"The most organised gang members reported being involved in about 30 incidents of delinquency on average over a year. Other gang members reported 20 incidents while non-gang members said they were involved in seven incidents," he said. "The types of delinquency ranged from low-level stuff like being rowdy on a street corner, to theft from home and school, up to housebreaking, joyriding and robbery."

[MarkB]

Shit, I just posted in the Gangs In England thread. Not a great start as a n00b.

Anyone else noticed the massive increase in blue and red around Glasgow? I'm in the Gorbals and it's definitely showing here, if you work your way around the neds that is. Fucking idiots.

[ags kings]

in glasgow its mostly run by neds like the possil boys,milton crew etc im from a v
crew called the ags kings so any torry boys her watch ya bak

[muzzy]

shit aberdeen is full of faggot neds as well, there isnt any real gangsters

[ags kings]

aye m8 tat true but wats rele they diffrence between gangs of neds and gangsters exept from the clothing and organisashion like the crew im fae we aqint gangster but is still a gang round about 40 folk