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Grade Eight Gang: the interview

As you know, there was recently an announcement made by Mr. Pirk about the suspension of several Grade Eight gang members for "gang related activity". This included egging cars, and carrying small pocket knives. While the older half of the student body laughed at the principal for taking a bunch of kiddie gang members so seriously, HTP decided to interview a few of the members to what they were actually all about. You can figure out whether they are really worth being afraid of.

HTP: How many people are in the gang?

Gang Kid #1: 30! No, 7... 30!

HTP: Is this some sort of extensive organisation?

Gang Kid #1: What?!

HTP:(choosing smaller words) Is this some sort of big organisation?

Gang Kid #1: No, just our school. Yeah.

HTP: So are you involved in some kind of organised crime?

Gang Kid #1: Yeah. No, we went to Westdale, and we robbed these guys, (laughter in background) and we knocked down all the chips and this guy grabbed all the money...and the cashier grabbed us, this big black man. We got all the money, and bought all the... (interrupted by loud obnoxious laughing)

Gang Kid #2: Some people in our gang, got caught for stealing, so now we don't do any criminal stuff.

HTP: What about the knives?

Gang Kid #1: There's this one kid Moe, that..

Gang Kid #2: Moebina.

Gang Kid #1: yeah Moebina. I threatened him right? And I told him I was going to kill him, he started to cry and then these two guys came up and knocked him to the ground. And then they got this knife, and put it to his neck but then he got scared and ran away.

Gang Kid #2: (laughing) They got his sister on us, and his sister and this girl Shelly who slapped me and I got suspended for 3 days.

Gang Kid #1: Yeah and now we're going to hit Shelly back.

Gang Kid #2: She told on us.

HTP: So you've got some plans for revenge?

Gang Kid #2: Yeah and...

Gang Kid #1: (interrupts) Yeah we're going to knock her into a garbage can.

HTP: Yeah, so have any other gangs had to challenge you on your turf?

Gang Kid #1: No, no. They're afraid of us.

Gang Kid #2: No. There are Grade 9's who want to be in our gang.

Gang Kid #1: Grade 9 and 8.

HTP: So do you intimidate all the other Grade 7's and 8’s?

Gang Kid #1: Yeah! Yes, we do.

Gang Kid #2: Yeah. (changes mind) No, the school thinks we do, but we don't try to.

Gang Kid #1: We don't try to, they're just afraid of us so what are we supposed to do?

Gang Kid #2: We go by the law now.

Gang Kid #1: Yeah, we go by the law. We used to do criminal stuff but now we go by the law.

Gang Kid #2: We are "the Crew"!

HTP: What's the name of the gang again?

Gang Kid #2: We are "the Crew".

Gang Kid #1: It's called the fucking Goddy Roddy's. (laughs)

Gang Kid #2: (laughs with him)

HTP: We'll print that. That's some funny stuff.

Gang Kid #2: Our nickname was the Goddy Roddy's.

Gang Kid #1: But now we're just the Crew.

HTP: So what about the older students. Are they afraid of you?

Gang Kid #1: What?!

HTP: Are Grade 9's and 10's afraid of you?

Gang Kid #1: Yeah they're all afraid of us.

Gang Kid #2: (laughs loudly)

HTP: So do you get a lot of bitches?

Gang Kid #1: What?!

HTP: (same question)

Gang Kid #1: Yeah.

Gang Kid #2: Yeah. Our sister gang, the Sket Crew. Our sister gang, they have (lists a bunch of names). (states matter-of-factly) They are our sister gang, and those are our bitches. They come with us all the time, and we always ..

Gang Kid #1: They want us.

Gang Kid #2: (continues) and we bang them on the trees and stuff.

Gang Kid #1: (laughs)

HTP: Do you prostitute them for money?

Gang Kid #2: We're not into money. We’re like their um...their um...

HTP: Pimps?

Gang Kid #2: Yeah. We're their pimps and they just follow us.

Gang Kid #1: They just come to us.

HTP: Do you have any future plans as a grade 8 gang?

Gang Kid #2: No.

Gang Kid #1: No, no, no, no!

Gang Kid #2: No, we're not a gang anymore. We're not a gang. We're just a couple of guys that got in trouble for it.

Gang Kid #1: We got in trouble for it. No, now instead of 30, there are probably 45. (I'm guessing he means members)

HTP: So the guys that got suspended until January, were they the leaders of the gang?

Gang Kid #1: No. Those guys, they weren't the leader. The leaders in the gang were me, him (Gang kid #2) (names more people)

Gang Kid #2: No, I'm not a leader. OK, (speaks slowly) I was part of the gang. (names people) they're all leaders but we decided to have no leaders.

Gang Kid #1: We were the first four. We were the first four.

HTP: How did this gang get started?

Gang Kid #1: Some guy just came to my pool and we were..

Gang Kid #2: Hanging out.

Gang Kid #1: And we called all these people up and everyone wanted to be in a gang!

Gang Kid #2: And our initiation is that they have to climb up a big dangerous hill.

Gang Kid #1: A big dangerous hill, a mountain.

Gang Kid #2: It's at Erindale park and it's where the falling rocks are. And if you fall down, you could die falling in the river.

HTP: Does the gang do drugs?

Gang Kid #2: No, no. No one in our troop smokes.

Gang Kid #1: Except for some people. We can't say names.

Gang Kid #2: No one in our group smokes.

Gang Kid #1: Hey! (to outside voice)

Gang Kid #2: I don't smoke anything. I'm on the volleyball team.

Gang Kid #1:I play hockey.

Gang Kid #2: Yeah , I play hockey. We're by the rule now. Nothing criminal.

HTP: No more knives?

Gang Kid #1: Only sometimes. (repeat)

HTP: What about egging that woman's car? I heard you egged a woman's car.

Gang Kid #1: Uh, yeah we did. At devil's night, egged all these houses.

HTP: Do you ever know these people?

Gang Kid #1: No, no, no.

Gang Kid #2: I personally wasn't in that.

HTP: So did you have anything against that woman or the people houses you egged?

Gang Kid #1: There was this one person that bugged us. Actually I wasn't there.

Low voice: You tried to fuck her up. She bugged you.

Gang Kid #1: No, no, no.

Low voice: She bugged you, and you fucked her up.

Gang Kid #2: We didn't even know who lives in the house.

HTP: Looks like you just do this for kicks.

Gang Kid #2: Well yeah, sure! Didn't you do it when you were our age?

HTP: No.

Gang Kid #1: No?!

Gang Kid #2: No? Aww...no eh.

HTP: The world's going to hell. Look at this. Grade 8 gang...

Gang Kid #2: We are mindful now.

Gang Kid #1: Look, we're going to murder that guy next. If he kiss me butt, I'll come after him.

Gang Kid #2: We don't do anything against the law. Nothing against school authority.

Gang Kid #1: OK, OK, this what we do against the law. We sometimes threaten to start choking people.

Gang Kid #2: He's our joker, OK?

Gang Kid #1: But we murder. We murder.

Gang Kid #2: He's our ass-cot. (laughs)

Gang Kid #1: (continues) And you know what else we did?

Gang Kid #2: J. A. ass-cot, ass-cot. J. A. did it, he's our mascot, man.