Only in chicago

Snuffy114 · 2 months

Legs: Johnny Tightlips, where'd they hit ya?

Johnny Tightlips: I ain't sayin' nothin'.

Legs: But what'll I tell the doctor?

Johnny Tightlips: Tell him to suck a lemon

ShezUK · 2 months

I think he's still one-upped by Frank Gusenberg:

... two other men (with civilian clothes) entered the room with machine guns and... opened fire on the seven men, pounding 70 bullets into them in what would become known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. When police arrived at the scene, Frank Gusenberg, despite having twenty-two wounds by fourteen bullets, was the only victim still alive... When asked "Who shot you?" Frank replied, "Nobody shot me".

obotray · 2 months

My uncle was a chicago ER surgeon, told me stories of gang related injuries. Said they'd stitch em up / send em out and like clockwork a rival member would show up within an hour from some payback move.

J_Wilkes_Booth · 2 months

Aim for the head. Nobody talks.

MayorMair · 2 months

As a black guy from NYC, the whole "Stop Snitching" movement has always bothered me. These kids don't even know what snitching is, but they stand by this idea anyway. Real snitching is when you and someone else are both criminals, then you get caught and then rat out the other criminal. People seem to think that getting cops involved in any way is snitching.

If someone killed/raped your mother/sister/daughter, and you new who it was, and you told the cops, does that make you a snitch or someone that cares about the well-being of your family?

Shit is ridiculous.

**People were wondering why i mentioned I was black: Well mainly because the whole Stop Snitching Movement is mainly lead by black Americans from the hood.

JoeyHollywood · 2 months

Reminds me of the Simpsons character Johny Tight Lips.

zoey732 · 2 months

If your life revolves around a certain group of people or way of life, like a gang, where the police have always been against you...why would you give up information to them in your dying moments? Most likely your family, friends, fellow gang members would not only have to deal with harassment from whoever it was that you gave up, but might also be implicated by your information. He's not thinking of just himself because he's dying anyway, he's staying true to the values he's lived by his whole life.

AllShookOut · 2 months

This happens everywhere, all around the world. There are whole communities, usually in poor areas, where no-one will talk to the police, not everyone there will be involved in crime at all. I live in the UK and it is common in many cities over here too.

Just look at the police arrest of Christopher Coke in Jamaica where a whole community took to arms to defend a drug dealer. Do you think that everyone there bought from him? Or just that he helped more local people out than the police ever did.

Lillipout · 2 months

The reason is simple. If the cops get the shooter first, then his fellow gang members won't get their chance at revenge.

rumentrocar · 2 months

Back when I was a paramedic, I had a patient that was shot four times: three in the abdomen and one in the upper abdomen/low chest. I was pretty new at that time, and after we got him loaded in the ambulance and on the way to the hospital, I started asking him normal questions like "are you having trouble breathing?" and "do you have belly pain?" and "what's your name?". He refused to answer them. Honestly, I could have cared less about who shot him or what his name was (mainly needed it for the records), but his refusal to tell me if he was short of breath or had massive belly pain reduced my ability to treat him. The guy could have been dying from a pneumothorax or other problem that I could have fixed or treated if he would have talked to me, but he chose to keep his mouth shut. FWIW, he turned out to be fine.

On the other hand, I've had to tell shot/stabbed/beaten gang members to shut up and stop looking like a bitch in front of the TV cameras and photogs and that if they kept screaming revenge on Lil' Trey or whoever, they were probably going to get themselves in trouble.

effedup · 2 months

Really? Only in Chicago? ...

Khal_Drogo · 2 months

This reminds me of, and probably has roots in Omertà. The Mafia's "Code of Silence".

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia#Omert.C3.A0

berrydrunk · 2 months

Stop Snitchin'!

-Riley

Also, I ain't seen nothin'.

tover · 2 months

wow: over $23000 prizes

strobelight317 · 2 months

"THAT'S RIGHT GRAND DAD NO SNITCHIN'!!"

titsffs · 2 months

ITT not a single gangsta.

Lillipout · 2 months

It was Maggie Simpson.

FrozenbagofMicrowave · 2 months

The 'G' code is strong in Chicago.

rockne · 2 months

Well, at least he gets to go to gangsta heaven...

H-Resin · 2 months

No, not only in Chicago. Try in every predominantly black ghetto in the United States, if not moreover the world. But particularly I'm referencing the no-snitching culture.

A lot of people here are rationalizing this by coming up with some sort of philosophy that police are always against you, or that gang members want their revenge...and yeah. That may be true on a deeper level. But the surface truth is that this is the culture and environment these kids grew up in, and their mentality is: if somebody kills me, nobody's gonna snitch on that guy. So why should I snitch on this dude because he killed someone? It's kind of circular reasoning, but it's the way of life on the streets.

If anybody hasn't watched Lous Theroux's documentary on the Kenzington neighborhood in Philly, I'd highly recommend it. Lots of good insights.

Flemtality · 2 months

Chi-City Mayne.

bobsp · 2 months

If he had said who it was, he'd be endangering his friends and family.

doesntmatterhad · 2 months

What I picture that guy looking like

Fudgefactor7 · 2 months

That's not just a Chicago thing. Where I'm from, that mentality is endemic. It works like this: Something happens, the cops show up, questions are asked, and nobody says anything because "we handle our own around here," so the cops, frustrated, leave, then the people who could have stepped up to the plate and offered up any info they had will then complain that the cops don't help them.

It's retarded, is what it is. Look, if you don't help the cops, they cannot help you, and if you consider keeping your trap shut as the right thing to do, then you lose the right to complain about police. It' simple. But they don't get it.

AtticusRuin · 2 months

When it comes to bangers, maybe one out of ten doesn't snitch when he's jammed up.

Seriously most of them like to fly the flag and dress up, but have no intention of going down for a fellow gang member. They'll toss that dude under the buss in a split second.

I'm sure the percentage varies a bit by region, but for the most part, as long as nobody finds out, gangs are happy to have the cops solve their problems for them. The trick is, to make sure nobody finds out so you keep getting tips.

SamurottoVonBismarck · 2 months

A PSA for the uninitiated

Tr0llphace · 2 months

And in his final dying breath, he pulled the cop closer and whispered in his ear..

"YO.. LO.."

EnorMoose · 2 months

STOP SNITCHIN'!!!

StaceyKingRules · 2 months

It's the Chicago way.

GrayStudios · 2 months

No snitchin'.

Trojanbp · 2 months

As a black guy, this infuriates me and adds on to why I dislike a lot of black people

xxslayer77xx · 2 months

you shoot good guy greg........refuses to tell police who did it.

Gjeesterphlunnie · 2 months

I see this all the time as an ER worker in Decatur, il... Ridiculous... At least people like this generally only kill each other an leave the rest of us alone.

pathending · 2 months

i would have laughed if he said "yolo..."

faceback · 2 months

Philly too. snitches get stitches, in the morgue.

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