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George Kriarakis
George Kriarakis (1978 – 7 April 2006) was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who served as the last national secretary of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Canada and was one of the victims of the Shedden massacre of 2006. Bandidos Kriarakis was born in Toronto, the son of Greek immigrants and worked as a tow truck driver. Kriarakis excelled as a rugby player as a high school student. His nickname of "Crash" was related to his occupation as a tow truck driver. Kriarakis had no criminal record, refused to use drugs and shunned the company of strippers. James "Ripper" Fullager, who had been active in outlaw biking since the 1960s and whose home in Toronto was a favorite gathering place for the Bandidos, where Fullager recounted his past adventures and gave them advice. The Victoria Day weekend in May is the normal start of the riding season for outlaw bikers in Canada. For Victoria Day in 2003, it turned out that of the Bandidos only Giovanni "Boxer" Muscedere, Frank "Cisco" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Kellestine
Wayne Earl Kellestine (born 1 May 1949), better known as "Weiner" Kellestine, is a Canadian outlaw biker, gangster, and convicted murderer, currently serving a life sentence for first-degree murder for his killing six out of the eight victims of the Shedden massacre of 2006. Early criminal career Kellestine is of German descent. He claims that his ancestors were Hessians hired to fight for the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War who settled in the British colony of Upper Canada (modern southern Ontario) after the Revolutionary War ended in 1783. The journalist Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent for ''The Toronto Star'', wrote that Kellestine is a pathological liar and though he is of German descent, there is no evidence to support his claims that his ancestors were Hessians. Kellestine has likewise frequently claimed to have served in the Canadian Army, but Edwards wrote that this claim is false. Kellestine has a long criminal record going back to 1967. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Salerno
Francesco Salerno (1962–7 April 2006), better known as "Frank the Bammer" was a Canadian biker. He was one of the victims of the Shedden massacre. Loner Salerno was born in Toronto, the son of a car dealer. Salerno's experienced troubles in his youth when his parents divorced. Salerno joined the Loners Motorcycle Club as an young man. Salerno had a criminal record, with more than thirty convictions for fraud and theft. Salerno once caused the Loners' clubhouse in Richmond Hill to burn down after falling asleep while he was supposed to be watching a fire. On 24 November 1998, Salerno robbed a Hy & Zel's drugstore in Niagara Falls, stealing 13 cartons of cigarettes. On 28 April 2000, he was found guilty of theft over $5,000 dollars over the incident and sentenced to twenty days in prison. Bandidos In December 2001, Salerno joined the Bandidos. Salerno became very close to another Bandido and fellow Italian-Canadian Giovanni Muscedere. Salerno and Muscedere often talked in Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Raposo
Luis Manny Raposo (1964–7 April 2006), better known as "Chopper" was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, one of the victims of the Shedden massacre of 2006. Loner Raposo was born in Toronto, the son of Portuguese immigrants. Raposo was considered to be a "ladies men", but the people he loved the most were his parents, whom he was still living with at the age of 41. In the late 1990s, he joined the Loners motorcycle gang. As a hang-around and then as a prospect with the Loners in the 1990s, Raposo had been repeatedly called out by his mentor James "Ripper" Fullager for not having matches and toothpicks on him at all times for the benefit of the full patch members, a test he now applied to the others when he reached "full patch" status, who usually failed it. Peter Edwards, the crime correspondent of ''The Toronto Star'', described Raposo as a dangerous drug addict whose eyes had a "glassy, crazed quality". Edwards wrote some of the members of the Bandidos Toronto chapter such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Jessome
George Jessome (1953 – 7 April 2006), better known as "Pony", was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, known as one of the victims of the Shedden massacre of 2006. Bandidos Jessome was born in Newfoundland and worked as a tow truck driver in Toronto. Jessome's family did not follow him to Ontario. Jessome lived alone in a trailer at his employer's yard, Superior Towing. In 2005, he joined the Bandidos motorcycle gang. Jessome was a close friend of another tow truck driver, George "Crash" Kriarakis, who recruited him into the Bandidos. In common with many of the members of the Canadian Bandidos, a self-proclaimed "motorcycle club", Jessome did not own a motorcycle nor know how to ride one. Unlike many of the other Bandidos, Jessome was not interested in organized crime. He had a terminal case of cancer and only joined the Bandidos to provide him with friends in his last days. Jessome seems not to have been a successful gangster. The Bandidos had a joint cellphone with Telus a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iona Station
Iona Station is a hamlet located on the border of Dutton-Dunwich and Southwold townships, in Elgin County, Ontario, Canada.The "station" in the name was on the Canada Southern Railroad owned by the Michigan Central Railroad, later by the New York Central Railroad. The Canadian economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) was born in Iona Station. The Iona Station General store (which is closed now) was operated by D.J. McBride and was taken over by his son, Arthur. At the same time a blacksmith shop on the east side of the townline was operated by Harold "Boots" Dundas. During the early years, the children of the community went to S.S.#6 Dunwich – a one-room school house, located on the southwest corner of Shakleton Road and Iona Line. The school house has since been demolished and replaced by a private residence. The farmhouse and barn of Wayne Kellestine, convicted [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Flanz
Jamie Flanz (1969 – 7 April 2006), better known as "Goldberg", was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster who was one of the victims of the Shedden massacre. Bandidos Flanz was born in Montreal into an upper-class English-speaking Jewish family, the son of Leonard Flanz and Ellie Levine. Leonard Flanz was a successful lawyer specializing in corporate and bankruptcy law. In 1997, Flanz moved to Keswick, Ontario. Flanz's reasons for moving to Ontario was his belief that as a Jewish Anglo (English-speaker), he had more of a future in Ontario than in Quebec, which was governed at the time by separatist ''Parti Québécois'', which insisted that Quebec was the special homeland of the ''pure-laine'' ("pure wool") French-Canadians. Flanz was married to Allison Harnett, by whom he had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce. The journalist Jerry Langton described Flanz as a "strapping former hockey player" and "a well-liked and intelligent young man". Flanz ran a successful c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands division. The newspaper's offices are located at One Yonge Street in the Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper having reflected his values until his death in 1948. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971. The newspaper introduced a Sunday edition in 1973. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking '' Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocken, who became the newspaper's founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston, Texas
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Comprising a land area of , Houston is the ninth-most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties). It is the largest city in the United States by total area whose government is not consolidated with a county, parish, or borough. Though primarily in Harris County, small portions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embroidered Patch
An embroidered patch, also known as a cloth badge, is a piece of embroidery which is created by using a fabric backing and thread. The art of making embroidered patches is an old tradition and was originally done by hand. During the first half of the twentieth century they were commonly embroidered using a shiffli embroidery machine. High-speed, computerized machines have led to mass production. There are various methods of affixing them to the fabric surface. Embroidered patches can be attached with a pin, sewn on, or affixed with more modern methods such as iron-on, dryer heat-activated adhesive, and Velcro backing. History Embroidered patches—an important identification tool for military and other uniformed personnel—trace their roots thousands of years ago to ancient cultures of the Mediterranean, Mideast, China, India and South America, where the art of decorating fabric with thread stitching originated. Elaborate hand-stitched designs and patterns were used to emb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd ( ) is an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida. The group originally formed as My Backyard in 1964 and comprised Ronnie Van Zant (lead vocalist), Gary Rossington (guitar), Allen Collins (guitar), Larry Junstrom (bass guitar) and Bob Burns (drums). The band spent five years touring small venues under various names and with several lineup changes before deciding on "Lynyrd Skynyrd" in 1969. The band released its first album in 1973, having settled on a lineup that included bassist Leon Wilkeson, keyboardist Billy Powell and guitarist Ed King. Burns left and was replaced by Artimus Pyle in 1974. King left in 1975 and was replaced by Steve Gaines in 1976. At the height of their fame in the 1970s, the band popularized the Southern rock genre with songs such as "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird". After releasing five studio albums and one live album, the band's career was abruptly halted on October 20, 1977, when their chartered airplane crash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Sinopoli
Paul Sinopoli (1975 - April 7, 2006) was a Canadian outlaw biker and gangster, one of the victims of the Shedden massacre. Gangster Sinopoli was born in Argentina into a middle-class Italo-Argentine family, but his family moved to Canada when he was a child. Sinopoli's parents, Onofuco and Antonetta, owned a posh house in the upper middle-class town of Jackson's Point, Ontario, on the shores of Lake Simcoe. A gluttonous man, Sinopoli was extremely obese as he weighted about 400 pounds. Sinopoli suffered from low self-esteem as he felt ashamed about his morbid obesity. Sinppoli had once worked briefly as a security guard for a sporting gods store in the early 2000s, but preferred to work as a petty drug dealer due to his extreme laziness. Sinopoli had planned to become a forklift driver, an ambition he had quickly abandoned. Sinopoli was not a successful drug dealer and was still living at home with his parents at the age of 30 as he could not afford to pay rent. Sinopoli cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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