Gang Activity

I learned about a new (new to me) gang tonight at work. After searching the client's school folders, I was showing a co-worker

this sexually inappropriate, slightly creepy drawing I confiscated from one of the folders. She immediately expressed concern that it was gang related... The Juggalos (or Juggalette feminine). Huh... never heard of it.

The Jugglos were initially started at an ICP concert when one of the musicians referred to the crowd as Juggalos... and it stuck. There have been violent acts ranging from homicide to arson

associated with the Juggalos, and due to this activity they have been classified as a gang in Utah, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and California. Though "studies have shown" that the violence has no relation to ICP's music, this is why ICP paraphernalia is not allowed in schools... I always wondered that.

Additionally my co-worker filled me in that Juggalo's "worship" the hatchet man, and carry hatchets as their preferred weapons (rather than guns). They consider themselves to be societal outcasts, and to be a family. Several of them will paint their faces like ICP.