By George Wethern
ISBN-10: 0762796200
ISBN-13: 9780762796205
We all find out about the Hells Angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild intercourse; medications and cruelty, beatings, or even homicide. yet not anyone relatively is familiar with what it truly is prefer to be an Angel other than an Angel. during this vintage of Hells Angels literature, to be learn along the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Sonny Barger, George Wethern—for decades the vice chairman of the Oakland Chapter—tells it love it is.
Until he discovered himself in reluctant carrier to the courts, Wethern used to be the imperative Angel. one of many West Coast's most sensible drug purchasers, he was once a guy who enjoyed motorcycles, fights, ladies, and medicine; a guy who knew the inner most secrets and techniques of Angel existence. Arrested, strung out, in depression, he acquired a precarious freedom by means of attesting in significant trials opposed to Angels members—and then disappeared into the witness safety software.
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Jerry Jordan, a dark-haired, clean-cut six-footer, carried his 225 pounds like a football player. He worked at the Peter Paul candy company. —Junior, a 300-pounder too monstrous to call fat, hung over all but the front and rear wheels on his chopper. A hard-drinking expert at leisure, he lived with his parents. , an averaged-sized man with rusty hair, handled a bike with rare precision. The truck driver was one of my boyhood friends. —Waldo, happy-go-lucky until drunk, waited behind deceptive horn-rimmed glasses for a chance to show he was one of the mightiest Angels at 6-1 and 260.
After buttoning a black short-sleeved shirt, I stooped to lace matching black boots high up my calves—Highway Patrol style—then I let my pants cuffs fall over them. My colors went on with a jerk of copper-riveted lapels. Finally, with a brass ring through my nose and a leather Harley hat on my head, I charged out into the night. Around the city, other Angels were waving off wives, girlfriends and kids, slipping from gin mills and coffee shops, cutting free from factories, construction sites, and truck rigs.
Hell’s Angels’ burying ground” was the phrase thrown out by the state Attorney General’s office and fielded by news media. Helicopters flew over the ranch for aerial photos. And a herd of journalists soon was at the bootheels of Sheriff Reno Bartolomie, a paunchy, silver-haired lawman who looked like a cattle rancher. In the same twenty-four-hour period, two other widely reported events also gave the Hell’s Angels winged skull emblem a new, more sinister meaning: —In Sacramento, the California Attorney General’s 1972 Crime Report branded the Angels a major narcotics distributor.