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  1. #1 Academics on motorbikes aka "Devils Diciples" (sic) 
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    This one's for you, Lao Jia Huo!

    Here's the money quote: “It’s not unheard of in the outlaw motorcycle gang world — a lot of people involved are lawyers and doctors and even kinesiology professors,” Sergeant Wynn said. “They like to give the image that they are doing good things and off on charity rides. That might be true for some.”

    September 2, 2011
    California Professor Leads a Methamphetamine Ring, the Police Say
    By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY and JENNIFER MEDINA
    SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — For nearly a decade Stephen Kinzey worked as a professor of kinesiology, the study of human movement, at California State University, San Bernardino. A few students complained online that he showed up late for class and could lose his focus. But that was about it.

    Now, the police say, Mr. Kinzey, 43, is a man on the run, wanted on suspicion of being the ringleader of a circle of methamphetamine dealers and the president of the Devils Diciples, an outlaw motorcycle gang. (The group spells its name as such.)

    Investigators from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said that they were unable to locate Mr. Kinzey, who they say supplied a ring of midlevel and street dealers with methamphetamine, a persistent scourge in the working-class cities east of Los Angeles.



    “One side of him was a successful and productive member of society, but the other side of him is an outlaw motorcycle gang leader,” said Sgt. Paul Wynn, a lead investigator of the case. “He was the highest-ranking person in the group, without a doubt.”

    Mr. Kinzey lived in an upper-middle-class enclave in an immaculate two-story Spanish-style home with his girlfriend, Holly Robinson, 33. When the police came to the home last Friday, Ms. Robinson was arrested along with half a dozen other members of the gang, who were there to pick up their share of a one-pound delivery of methamphetamine, police officials said. Mr. Kinzey was not there.

    The police found several weapons in the home, including a shotgun, two rifles, two handguns and brass knuckles.

    The department began the investigation six months ago as an undercover operation. Motorcycle gangs are common in this part of California; Hell’s Angels has its headquarters just a few miles away, and spotting a group of several dozen bikers cruising down the freeways on the weekend is hardly unusual.

    “It’s not unheard of in the outlaw motorcycle gang world — a lot of people involved are lawyers and doctors and even kinesiology professors,” Sergeant Wynn said. “They like to give the image that they are doing good things and off on charity rides. That might be true for some.”

    Sergeant Wynn said about a dozen members of outlaw motorcycle gangs had been arrested in the past year, mostly on drug charges. He said that officials were actively pursuing 15 other members of Devils Diciples.

    Mr. Kinzey earned his doctorate from the University of Toledo and was apparently well liked by his students in California. On a Web site that allows students to rank professors, Mr. Kinzey had one of the top scores, with a reputation of being an easy grader and a tardy teacher. On his Twitter feed, he routinely posted updates about being late for class.

    University officials were told of Mr. Kinzey’s involvement in drugs on Thursday.

    “To our knowledge, this is the first notice that anyone on our campus has had regarding this situation,” said Albert Karnig, the president of the college. “If the allegations are indeed true, this is beyond disappointing.”

    Several of Mr. Kinzey’s academic articles were on the department’s bulletin board. His clothing and style — a long goatee and a few visible tattoos — might have made him look different from other teachers. But Albert Cabrera, 21, a kinesiology major who was a student in two of Mr. Kinzey’s courses, said nothing about his professor stood out.

    “He’s a good teacher, he’s smart,” Mr. Cabrera said. “I’ve seen his Diciples belt, but I never thought anything of it.”

    Rebecca Fairley Raney reported from San Bernardino, and Jennifer Medina from Los Angeles.
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  2. #2 Re: Academics on motorbikes aka "Devils Diciples" (sic) 
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    Quote Originally Posted by euphonius View Post
    This one's for you, Lao Jia Huo!

    Here's the money quote: “It’s not unheard of in the outlaw motorcycle gang world — a lot of people involved are lawyers and doctors and even kinesiology professors,” Sergeant Wynn said. “They like to give the image that they are doing good things and off on charity rides. That might be true for some.”


    Well, my Happy Kitty MC was planning on peddling stinky tofu outta CJ750s on the streets of Beijing, without proper vendor permits (how is that for being bad ass?!?!?!) ... but, naturally, our CJ750s wouldn't start.

    Seriously, when I was teaching up north (Harbin), the university admin went ballistic when I showed up one day riding a big, black, noisy motorcycle. It honestly thought I was a 1% biker who might begin raping & pillaging at any moment. It didn't matter that I was a Cambridge fellow ... I rode a motorcycle! "Shutter the windows, barricade the doors, hide the girls!" The admin even complained to my home university for "setting a bad example".

    Conversely, when I was teaching in Shanghai, the more progressive admin would fight over who got to have a ride. It kept asking me to come back ... "and don't forget to bring your 哈雷!"

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    I find it interesting that this guy was smart enough to get his doctorate and university tenure before he was 33. That's not an easy thing to do, and shows that he's obviously quite ambitious academically. I would like to say that these are only allegations, but it looks pretty bad if everybody in his gang was at his house to pick up their monthly share of meth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nuhaus View Post
    I would like to say that these are only allegations, but it looks pretty bad if everybody in his gang was at his house to pick up their monthly share of meth.
    And his sudden disappearance ... well, that was just a misunderstanding.
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    Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years to live. With a new sense of fearlessness, and a desire to secure his family's financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime, where he ascends to power. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis, such as White's, releases a typcial man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to kingpin of the drug trade




    Lead actor Bryan Cranston stated in an interview: "The term 'breaking bad' is a southern colloquialism and it means when someone who has taken a turn off the path of the straight and narrow, when they've gone wrong. And that could be for that day or for a lifetime."
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