cracked.com — Yesterday's story about real-life super-villains left a bad taste in our mouth. Surely those flamboyantly evil criminals have counterparts on the right side of the law: Men of great courage and strength of conviction willing to plunge alone into the criminal underworld, handing out justice like some kind of a man-shaped justice dispenser.
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tonamelSep 9, 2008
Aw, I was hoping to see Angle Grinder Man make the list.<a class="user" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3112670.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/3112670.stm</a>
mononuclearSep 9, 2008
You can't take anything on cracked.com as fact. That statement of course is exaggerated. That said MS13 is an extremely organized gang and some scary s**t. It isn't just some street gang with local groups like TCG or something. It has a centralized command and is run much like the mob with a head somewhere calling the shots for the world. They are big into drugs and arms dealing. It is an organized crime group spanning the US and Central America. Discovery Channel or National Geographic did a documentary on MS13 a little while ago that was pretty good. It started with some guys in California that got deported back to El Salvador and it has spread.
tech42erSep 9, 2008
No, the reason it started was because the El Salvadorans were getting nailed by other gangs, so they formed their own (this is how most ethnic gangs start). When the US started deporting them to El Salvador, they took advantage of the less-than-stellar control the authorities have in that country to establish a major base of operations.
hughtopiaSep 10, 2008
Dugg for fear of pissing any of these people off...
smuikasSep 10, 2008
In one of those docus, they point out that the head of the organization runs the whole shebang from a prison cell.Of course, he runs the (corrupt) prison, as well.
rushjaycarrSep 10, 2008
wtf is Escobar?