Over the past 15 years these eyes of mine have been privy to what can best be described as a very disturbing trend. As a minister of religion one of my duties is officiating at funerals. This usually ends with a cremation or a burial.
When a notorious gangster is slain he is usually forgotten as members of the public rejoice, saying that the only good gangster is a dead one. But what we forget is that these gangsters have fellow gangster friends and family members who attend their funerals en masse, resulting in what can only be described as mayhem, mass hysteria, and wild, uncontrollable behaviour.
At the burial site the scene is one of loud music blaring from speakers mounted in pimped-out rides, incessant consumption of alcohol, marijuana-smoking, loud cursing and swearing of revenge on the police and rival gangsters who deprived them of the company of their slain ’homie’’.
These gangster funerals are a haven for criminals. Maybe the authorities should take a page out of the books of the FBI, CIA, and ATF in the US. What they do is assign special agents to attend the funerals of notorious gangsters. They do so armed with several outstanding warrants as the idea is to nab suspects who may have been eluding capture but who feel so drawn to mourn the loss of their boss that they show up at the funeral.
As they are in the midst of paying their last ’disrespects’’ to their slain ’homies’’ the officers pounce on them and cart them away for processing thus effectively replacing one type of grief with another.
