I heard about this yesterday, http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/62943.htm.
Apparently, there was a huge organized crime ring in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, imaginatively called The Greenpoint Crew. 21 Polish guys were arrested for extortion, armed robbery and attempting to fence a Stradivarius violin to a federal agent.
I live just a few blocks from Greenpoint and I enjoy the occasional pierogy or two, but I'm a little amazed that these people can muster the moxie it takes to run this kind of organization. From what I can see, they're too busy screaming in Polish outside my apartment at 8am on a Saturday and stumbling down my street after one too many Zywiecs.
I've got two questions:
Why aren't people making a Polish Sopranos?
And where the fuck did they get a Stradivarius?
The jokes write themselves.
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I've heard that all of the Stradivarius violins (Stradivarii?) in the world have been identified and anyone who says they found one "in their grandfather's attic" is full of shit. Shocking that alleged criminals would be lying, but there it is.
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