gangsta reenactments

I've seen two reenactments in my life. One was a very elaborate Civil War reenactment. It was dead on accurate, down to intricate details like the canteens, belt buckles, muskets, etc. The actors were very serious. When they went down, they stayed down, motionless for almost an hour.

The other one was a Bonnie and Clyde bank robbery reenactment. It was silliness, but diverting in it's own way. The actress playing Bonnie was doing Faye Dunaway, the Clyde was very slight of build and moved like a ballet dancer. The car was 10 years off, the guns were plastic, with a dayglow orange tip on the barrel. Great fun though. Nice costumes. GREAT porkpies.

I was thinking that it might be fun here in my home town of Stratford on Avon, to put on a Gansta Reenactment. I mean what really happened at thar club, where they started playing “Throw Your Hood Up” by Lil Jon (see link) I thought it meant throw the hood up on your sweatshirt, but apparently it means demonstrate the gang sign from your neighborhood.

Push comes to shove an argument breaks out between rival gangs over turf . The heated discussion spills out onto the parking lot. Fisticuffs ensue. Guns are drawn.

Over two hundred shots are fired, and that is just from the automatic weapons that left their spent cartridges on the scene to be counted later by the local constabulary.

4 people were killed. 13 seriously injured.

This actually happened. (Lil Jon’s music is banned from most clubs.) I would like to see a reenactment of what exactly transpired that fateful evening in America.

AB (added benefit) Put some locals on an honest day’s work.