A GROUP OF aging Brooklyn bikers — who earned patches for attacks on police — were busted Tuesday for peddling a deadly arsenal of weapons, including a cast iron cannon.
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Eight members of the Forbidden Ones, the Dirty Ones and the Trouble Makers — whose average age was 51 — were charged with firearms trafficking. But four of them were too sick to make their arraignment in Brooklyn Federal Court, and were admitted to the hospital instead.
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Accused gun smuggler Scott (Spider) Brannigan, 61, was complaining of high blood pressure and a bad ticker; Frank (Afro) Miranda, 50, and Samuel Moya, 44, needed heroin detoxification, and Jose (Rusty) Perez, 49, the reputed “supreme president” of the Forbidden Ones, needed treatment for sleep apnea, sources said
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Federal prosecutors alleged that Brannigan transported the cannon along with numerous other guns from Florida to the group’s crummy two-story clubhouse at 15 Thames St. in Bushwick. The two-wheeled cannon was operational and parked at the front door of the bikers’ lair ready to be fired at infiltrators, the prosecutor said.
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But cheese the oldest is 61 & they are calling them “Geriatric” – I bicycled 10 miles to & from work at that age
There is something to be said about a load of canister shot and a remote firing device.
Past summer was visiting people on the opposite coast. Next door a brother & sister were cleaning out the apartment of their departed father. He had been retired military & a serious history buff.
They asked if there was anything I wanted. - He had floor to ceiling shelves of history books, most dealing with obscure campaigns, took all I could carry.
Then they asked if I wanted his cannon. – Yippie, Yippie, Yay!! – Sure enough in the garage there is the barrel of Civil War style field piece. - Am sure up to making a carriage & mind is forming plans while simultaneously trying to figure out how to ship it.
Then get on my knees to inspect. – It is a barrel CASTING. – Have to get access to a machine shop with a boring machine with enough travel to bore the barrel. Then have to turn it, find the axis of the bore, machine a trunnion perpendicular to the bore, rotate it & machine the other one in line with the 1st.
Even if I can find a machine big enough could never pay for that much time. – Probably why their old-man never finished it. – Had to say “no thank you” & walk away sadly.
Past summer was visiting people on the opposite coast. Next door a brother & sister were cleaning out the apartment of their departed father. He had been retired military & a serious history buff.
They asked if there was anything I wanted. - He had floor to ceiling shelves of history books, most dealing with obscure campaigns, took all I could carry.
Then they asked if I wanted his cannon. – Yippie, Yippie, Yay!! – Sure enough in the garage there is the barrel of Civil War style field piece. - Am sure up to making a carriage & mind is forming plans while simultaneously trying to figure out how to ship it.
Then get on my knees to inspect. – It is a barrel CASTING. – Have to get access to a machine shop with a boring machine with enough travel to bore the barrel. Then have to turn it, find the axis of the bore, machine a trunnion perpendicular to the bore, rotate it & machine the other one in line with the 1st.
Even if I can find a machine big enough could never pay for that much time. – Probably why their old-man never finished it. – Had to say “no thank you” & walk away sadly.