Only gangsters I know are all fukking talk . There these two,who are both related to each other, who come down my gym, and they talk about who they are going to beat up, or some drug deal they are planning. Flash money about, and are constantly having loud conversations on their mobile phones .One particular epic one, was one of them threatening to slash his girls throat with a stanley knife if she went to the police becausse he kicked fukk out of her the other day. But then , they both disappeared, both back in prison for breaching their probation conditions. Seems a fukking pointless existance to me. Now I used to know a real gangster, my friends dad and he never done a day in prison, other people I think probably did time for him and he owned a business and use it as a cover for his dodgy dealings. This man was polite as can be never heard him swear once , and I remember hero worshipping him, I got invited to a party round there once and it was basically big fat men and very young women with massive boobs if I remember. All pulled up in cars that the nearest I got to was car magazines at the time. I remember once him driving me home and he was saying to me how much he admired my dad (my dad worked in a bank, what I thought was boring job), and he said 'you should respect your father,he has done well for himself. I got the feeling he was trying to tell me that his life wasn't all that . I never thought that at the time but as I got older I realised what he was basically saying.
One day, his house got raided by some very nasty people, and his wife my friends mother was tied up and tortured until she revealed the safe combo. The police even came round to my house. and it turned out ,my friend brought this on because he would boast to all of us including me about that safe and show us all the money in it. He must have shown it to someone who told people who decided to get it. The police weren't exactly the type who walk the streets, scared the living shyt out of me, decided at that moment a life of crime wasn't for me.