Confessions of a loan shark

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https://www.city-journal.org/john-maxie-shackelford-boston-gangland-war">//https://www.city-journal.org/john-maxie-shackelford-boston-gangland-war

How'd you find me?" It was Ash Wednesday when I cold-called John "Maxie" Shackelford's house in Manchester, New Hampshire. It'd been 56 years since he left Boston, the city of his birth, and he hadn't left for the reason most do—to save that buck Taxachusetts takes out of your pocket whenever you go to a bakery. Maxie left under duress. He was handcuffed in the backseat of an unmarked car with an FBI agent sitting beside him and a police escort, blue lights flashing.

When he crossed the northern border on I-95, a sign whizzed past the window. It didn't say "Live free or die" in 1965. It said, "Welcome to New Hampshire."

Maxie never looked back.

Boston police said he was marked for death. He was caught up in a gangland quarrel that quickly degenerated into a war, pitting the McLaughlin brothers of Boston's Charlestown neighborhood against Buddy McLean and his friends from the neighboring city of Somerville. Each side was trying to eradicate the other, and by the time Maxie was transported north, they were well on their way to doing exactly that. Bodies were left slumped in cars, dumped in Boston Harbor, sprawled on the street, and left in patches of woods for critters to eat. Number of cases solved? Zero.

[JParis]

I was a little too young to see that "heyday" but growing up just north of it(25miles), you heard it all...

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My grandmother on my mother's side live in West Summerville.
We would stop for a visit once in a while
It was a nice neighborhood, but it was populated by some very tough and intolerant kids
God help the poor out of town fool who failed to pay proper respect to the Boston Red Sox

[Shazam/TPP]

so they're worse than Cleveland fans?  :wink:

[Incogneeto]

so they're worse than Cleveland fans?  :wink:

Dodger fans or Raiders would just beat you Unconscious.

Cleveland??? Even I can Beat up a Guy with a Brown Bag on his Head. :w00t:

[CNCAppsJames]

Raider fans just throw you off the top of the Coliseum to your death... for wearing the opposing team's jersey.

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so they're worse than Cleveland fans?  :wink:

Probably not, but I've never been to Cleavland.