Homeland security now means you can’t legally enter the United States if you are a foreign national and the State Department knows you are a fully patched member of the Hells Angels, Outlaws, Bandidos, or Mongols. Apparently prospects are okay. Apparently Pagans, Vagos and Night Wolves are okay. The prohibition is found in the United [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 18, 2011
A Sandusky, Ohio police officer and member of the Warthogs Motorcycle Club quit the force last week. The resignation was part of the fall out after a Warthog named Melvin D. Burns, Jr. attempted to provoke a confrontation with members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club at a Sandusky bar called The Original Margaritaville. In his [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 14, 2010
It is Monday, June 14th and Rebel is busy right now trying to convince some people who live in New York City that he can too write books and stuff; that motorcycle outlaws are interesting, noble and misunderstood; and that the ATF is the American secret police. Amazing though it might seem, some of the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, February 28, 2010
There was another motorcycle-outlaw-related news spectacular in Southeastern Tennessee the other day. Television just doesn’t get any better than a lock off shot of a bunch of Outlaws doing the perp walk in bright orange jumpsuits. The online faux newspaper, the Chattanoogan -not a newspaper but an amazing simulation- gave this utterly contrived and cynically [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 18, 2009
A small town bully named Dennis Presley called a press conference Wednesday in Marion, Illinois to give the people fair warning that only he is ready to confront the outlaw biker invasion that is about to overrun Williamson County. Williamson is a rural county in Southern Illinois and like most counties near the Mason-Dixon line [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 8, 2009
The greatest American mystery novelist was a man named Ross MacDonald who lost his mind and died in 1983. None of his plots were ever obvious. His stories always involved the baring of dark, antique and sometimes institutionalized secrets. In his last novel, MacDonald’s cynical and softhearted hero concluded, “We’re all guilty.” Joshua “Chewy” Embry, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
This is one small example of how American justice works. Last November 15th, a 26-year-old member of the McLean County Chapter of the American Outlaws Association was stabbed in the heart outside a country music bar called the Six Strings Club in Bloomington, Illinois. The victim (pictured above) was named Joshua C. “Chewy” Embry. He [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 22, 2009
Sometimes, one of your comments and my response to it, gets up on the page. Because, you know, I am lazy and this is how I can get somebody to do half my work for me. Especially when a holiday is coming up. Today’s winner is Jack. Jack commented on my review of Jay Dobyns’ [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Gerald “Jerry” Bordas, died about three o’clock Monday morning on Interstate 95 near Sunrise Boulevard in Broward County, Florida. Bordas was killed after his motorcycle clipped a 2007 GMC van driven by Rodolf Desroches, 46, of Sunrise, Florida. Bordas then fell into traffic and was run over by three other vehicles. When he came to [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Roger E. Williams, Jr. of Fort Lauderdale died April, 25 of injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash in Leesburg, Florida. Williams was in Leesburg to participate in the 13th annual Leesburg Bikefest. According to local police, Williams was riding west on West Main Street about eight o’clock at night when he hit a four inch [...]
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