[discostu]

Hmm, illegal gun trade must be down. A friend of mine has a great story about going to Chinatown to try to buy some firecrackers and it taking 5 minutes to convince the guy that he really wanted firecrackers he wasn't using it as a code for gun. When it was all done the guy gave him a big box of firecrackers for $5 and hurried him out the door.

[areafiftyone]

LOL - not to mention the illegal medicine trade.

[mr.pink]

Hmm, illegal gun trade must be down. A friend of mine has a great story about going to Chinatown...

I lived near Chinatown for years, loved it and loved the people there. They were heavily impacted by 9-11....but...Chinatown has always been an all cash and all "off the books" type of economy where a 1/2 mil is absolutely nothing to the people who run that place.

A few years back there was an article about a new bank opening there. Their plan was to have 60 mil in deposits by the end of 6 months....they had 60 mil in under 3 weeks.

get over it Jake...it's Chinatown! ;o)