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Hells Angels founding member Sonny Barger dies aged 83 from cancer:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | PUBLISHED: 05:57 EDT, 30 June 2022 | UPDATED: 09:24 EDT, 30 June 2022 | By JACK NEWMAN FOR MAILONLINE

Posted on 06/30/2022 9:22:05 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: irishjuggler
Are they still around?

They are one of the top 4 nationwide and also have numerous affiliated clubs that run under different names.
41 posted on 06/30/2022 10:30:00 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Red Badger

I think it was Mr. Barger who coined a phrase I always thought seemed pretty fair (regardless whatever failings he supposedly had, etc)

“Treat me good, I’ll treat you better. Treat me bad, I’ll treat you worse.”


42 posted on 06/30/2022 10:35:31 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: bankwalker

Still a very active chapter in Minneapolis.


43 posted on 06/30/2022 10:44:26 AM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: Red Badger

Not much for motorcycle thug groups. Good riddance.


44 posted on 06/30/2022 10:45:40 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Red Badger

Wow. If Buddy Holly hadn’t wasn’t killed in that plane crash ...


45 posted on 06/30/2022 10:45:46 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: TexasGator

I am 30 dB deaf in both ears, and I ride with hearing aids.

One thing that would help save a lot of accidents would be to modulate the headlights high and low at a medium speed in daylight.... ............


46 posted on 06/30/2022 10:48:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: AppyPappy
And you have no idea what will piss them off.

Hells Angels prospect Robert "Bugeye Bob" McClure was convicted of quadruple murder and sentenced to four consecutive life terms in July 1994 for the shootings of Margo Compton, her six-year-old twin daughters, Sylvia and Sandra, and Gary Seslar, the son of her boyfriend, in Gaston [Oregon] on August 7, 1977.

McClure's alleged accomplice in the killings, Hells Angels hangaround Benjamin "Psycho" Silva, was never charged in the case; prosecutors felt it wasn't worth the expense and effort as he was already on death row for the 1981 kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of two college students in Lassen County, California.

Odis "Buck" Garrett, the Hells Angels Vallejo, California chapter president, ordered the killings of Compton and her daughters in retaliation for her testimony against several Hells Angels in a 1976 San Francisco prostitution trial. Garrett, a one-time millionaire methamphetamine dealer already serving a life term in California on a narcotics conviction, was found guilty on four counts of murder and sentenced to four consecutive life sentences in prison in July 1995. Garrett died in prison aged seventy-four on February 12, 2017. wiki

47 posted on 06/30/2022 10:51:24 AM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Nun


48 posted on 06/30/2022 10:53:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: dfwgator

Probably a good many were in the beginning..................


49 posted on 06/30/2022 10:54:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I’d have more respect for them if they served their nation by paying a visit to antifa and other assorted communists.


50 posted on 06/30/2022 10:55:14 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Red Badger

Did your window shatter?
No?
Then my pipes ain’t too loud!


51 posted on 06/30/2022 10:58:00 AM PDT by oldvirginian (The CCP is the world's largest criminal organization. )
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To: imabadboy99

I’m sure some of the would gladly do so, but they don’t work for free....................


52 posted on 06/30/2022 10:58:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Her “very colorful” antics lasted through being perhaps the original “leather nun” dominatrix in San Francisco,

If you're talking about Jeanne-Paule Marie "Jeannine" Deckers, your story never happened since she lived in Belgium along with her friend and was buried with her life long friend in Wavre, Belgium following their suicide in 1985.

Maybe we're talking about two different singing nuns.......

People at my record company think that two women who live together must be lesbians. They assert even that nuns in convents are in love. I deny these rumors as I testify against every creepy spirit. The answer is still obvious that I am not homosexual. I am loyal and faithful to Annie, but that is a whole other love in the Lord.

53 posted on 06/30/2022 11:02:24 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Don't walk thru the watermelon patch)
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To: Red Badger

His wife Zorana? What became of Sharon?


54 posted on 06/30/2022 11:07:03 AM PDT by DPMD ( )
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To: Bon of Babble

My money’s on the female Peter Dinklage.


55 posted on 06/30/2022 11:09:34 AM PDT by DPMD ( )
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To: DPMD

From Wiki:

Barger’s first wife Elsie Mae (née George) died on February 1, 1967 from an embolism in the bloodstream after undergoing an illegal abortion. In 1969, he began a relationship with Sharon Gruhlke, a former beauty queen from Livermore.[7] Barger married Gruhlke while he was incarcerated at Folsom State Prison in 1973.[45]

In 1983, Barger was diagnosed with throat cancer after years of heavy smoking. His diagnosis and treatment took place at Fort Miley VA Hospital in San Francisco. Having stage III laryngeal cancer, a total laryngectomy with bilateral functional neck dissections was performed by Michael Tralla MD, FACS. Consequently, due to his vocal cords being removed, he learned to vocalize using the muscles in his esophagus.[5]

In 1998, Barger returned to Arizona, where he had previously served a prison sentence, with his third wife Noel and stepdaughter Sarrah, joining the Hells Angels’ Cave Creek chapter and working as a motorcycle mechanic.[46][4][47]

On March 7, 2003, Barger was arrested by Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies after a reported domestic dispute with his wife, Noel, and stepdaughter, Sarrah, at their home in New River, Arizona. Noel suffered a broken rib and back, and a lacerated spleen.[48] Barger was later sentenced to an eight-day jail term for aggravated assault.[49]

He married his fourth wife, Zorana, on June 25, 2005.[50]

Barger underwent surgery as a result of prostate cancer in 2012. His prostate was removed and he was subsequently declared free of cancer.[51]


56 posted on 06/30/2022 11:14:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: TexasGator

This was in 1979 I dont think it was them


57 posted on 06/30/2022 11:18:22 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t believe Ralph was one of the founding members. He was around for a very long time but I don’t think he was there at the beginning. I could be wrong. He was ten years older than me.


58 posted on 06/30/2022 11:21:22 AM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: Red Badger

Prayers for his soul.


59 posted on 06/30/2022 11:27:54 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Bon of Babble
Who gets to play him in the TV movie?

I vote for Will Smith or Idris Elba:

Nah, they've overdone the white/black swap. I suggest Rachel Levine.

60 posted on 06/30/2022 11:38:21 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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