Over at Detroit Free Press, they have an article about how some guy got busted stealing all kinds of shit from all kinds of juggalos & juggalettes & this years Gathering, so he got jumped & his car got totaled. Hopefully this teaches people not to steal from juggalos at the Gathering of the JUGGALOS! Here is the article:
Juggalos strip a car of a suspected thief at Insane Clown Posse’s Gathering of the Juggalos. The victim of the theft, Angelina, holds up a licenses plate. / Romain Blanquart/DFP
A group of festival goers take away the car of a man they believed was stealing around the festival grounds after chasing him out of the 13th Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-In-Rock, IL on Saturday August 11, 2012. The crowd delivered vigilante justice sending a message that stealing will not be tolerated. / ROMAIN BLANQUART/ Detroit Free Press
CAVE-IN-ROCK, Ill. — The Juggalos served up a shot of vigilante justice Saturday.
It was a moment that even veteran festival-goers described as shocking: hordes of fans destroying the car of a suspected thief at Insane Clown Posse’s Gathering of the Juggalos.
With cheers and chants of “FA-MI-LY,” the charged-up mob ultimately lifted the stripped Grand Am onto a Uhaul trailer and carted it half a mile to the festival’s main stage, where security demanded they tow it backstage.
Hours earlier, the suspected thief had been chased off the fest site by a posse of more than 50 fans.
“We police our own,” said an Ohio fan who called herself Red.
It all had started Friday night when a Michigan couple – identifying themselves as 23-year-old Angelina and 24-year-old Marty – arrived at their campsite to find their tent ransacked. As they later recounted to the Free Press, a fellow camper fingered the unidentified Ohio man as the culprit.
On Saturday morning the Michigan couple entered the suspect’s Grand Am only to find he’d removed the trunk release button. They said they opened the trunk by hotwiring it, finding their stuff among a batch of goods stolen from other Juggalos, including shoes, shorts, electronics, jewelry and bottles of medicine.
“We started smashing the front window,” said Angelina.
Others soon joined in, and within hours the car was an empty, dented hulk. Juggalos could be spotted parading pieces – bumpers, doors, engine parts – around the Gathering site.
At one point the suspected thief was spotted nearby. Dozens of fans set after him, chasing him to the festival exit, where security staffers stopped the mob.
“We’re family,” said an Arkansas fan who said he helped lead the chase. “You don’t steal from your family.”
The fate of the car, thief and vigilantes was unclear Saturday evening, day four of the 13th annual Gathering, which has drawn more than 8,000 fans of Detroit’s ICP to southern Illinois.
“I was there when they threw things at Tila Tequila (in 2010), and even I’m more shocked at this,” said Red, the Ohio fan. “We’re not usually this feral.
But dude – don’t steal.”
Faygoluvers Comments
scruffy
Comment posted on Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 10:09 am GMT -5 at 10:09 am
gotta love all these facebook comments about ‘this went too far!’
were fuckin JUGGALOS, not mouseketeers. just cuz were not a gang, doesnt mean were all pussies.
if this asshole did try to sue, he would A: lose. and B: buy himself a lifetime of persecution. if he hasnt bought it already.
MERV, AXE, i hope you see this, cuz i dont fuck with facebook… as a ‘normal citizen,’ if someone is robbin people in my neighborhood, i wanna whup them. fuck police, you call police only if you are OUTGUNNED. period. no other reason.
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