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Jul 15 2004 4 Comments

Finger furor

In a bizarre cut-off-one-of-your-fingers squabble between 2 gangsters, the police were called in, forcing them to invoke the anti-organized crime law.

It turns out that a 27-year-old member of the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate, told a younger member of the gang to cut off one of his fingers for attempting to leave the organization. Making sure there could be no misunderstandings he said, “You can no longer escape. To take responsibility for attempting to quit the gang, cut off one of your fingers.”

How this situation will be remedied remains to be seen, but if things don’t go well for the man involved, heaven knows what the gang will require him to remove after involving the police.

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The young gangster showing off his still intact (yet surprisingly feminine) fingers yesterday.

Categorized: General

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  1. charsa says

    7/16/2004 at 12:07 am

    hes got better nails than i do… such prissy gangsters 🙂

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  2. Johnnie Walker says

    7/16/2004 at 7:50 pm

    What’s with the french manicure? Man, gangsters are not what they used to be.

    Reply
  3. Redmaiden says

    7/18/2004 at 2:44 am

    hiya,
    I saw this article and thought of you!

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    Reply
  4. Lee says

    7/18/2004 at 11:26 am

    Hi

    Thanks a lot for the link. I must admit to thinking that green tea ice cream was an unusual concept, but surprisingly it’s really good. Some of those on that list are another matter altogether though. I don’t which I would say is the worst. Whale perhaps?

    Needless to say, I won’t be rushing off down to the shop to find out!

    Reply

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