Who
can forget this fine organization... Well certainly no one who heard
first hand the racist antics of these wanna be vigilantes.
OK
perhaps I should start at the beginning... Most of us "kids"
used
channel 14 and 24 but often we would use other channels to branch
off on different topics or to get away from the bleed over. One of the
places we went was "The Motel" which was code to
10-27 to
channel
29. We had been doing this for years when suddenly the
Panorama City Neighborhood Watch Patrol decided that channel 29 was
their private channel and that they had the authority to kick everyone
else
off of it. Well this did not sit well with most of us. You should never
piss off a group
of technically astute kids unless you have a better grasp of
the
technology you are doing battle with. You probably should invest in
better than entry level radio
equipment too. These guys were clueless about the CB radio,
which of course made it great fun to screw with them. Now I know what
you must be thinking, why mess with an organization that is trying to
clean up the neighborhood? You sound like a group of angry teenagers...
Well there were a couple of reasons...
1.
They tried to chase us off a channel that we had been using for a
long time.
2.
The organizer of the group Frank "Zebra One" was one raciest mother
fucker! Listen to
this
sound bite and you will get the idea of what was regularly heard out of
his mouth.
Zebra
One Sound bite
I
don't remember how many
members were in the Neighborhood Watch Patrol, I might have never known
but they all used "Zebra" numbers. I don't remember the numbers getting
too far out of the single digits so there were more of us than them.
Some of our attacks were planned and some spontaneous, they varied in
scope. Steve
"Little Shit" and I used to coordinate over the
phone. The
Zebras were so
dumb they could not tell us apart. To further the confusion we would
slide our radios on and off freq but then make sure that we were both
exactly locked on to each other so when we both keyed there would be no
heterodyne. It would appear that our power was jumping from a few S
units to full scale. I heard them talking once about how I
must be
running at least a kilowatt. It made me laugh because it was
a barefoot Cobra 142 GTL on my end and Steve was running a barefoot
Lafayette something or other but happened to live very close to their
patrol area. When they would get too close to Steve (trying to T-Hunt
him) I would
start in and they would switch gears and try to find me. It must have
been very
frustrating for these guys. If I remember correctly I even had a mobile
antenna on a switch that I could "drop the power" even lower. We would
tell them that we lived in Burbank or Sylmar to really through them off.
I
made a
recording
using a sample of Franks outburst and a bunch of air checks
from Rick Dees. I recorded it onto a custom 10 second 8 Track tape
loop. As
soon as it played it would stop and it was cued up and ready to play
again. I had no direct input
to the radio at that point so I acoustically coupled it into the D-104
with a pair of head phones, it sounded great! Some nights every time I
heard him I would blast it out over and over, listening to his blood
pressure go higher and higher. I remember him threatening us all the
time. He was going to find us and beat the shit out of us... we would
laugh at him and point out that an adult threatening and or
beating up 15 year old kids was not looked upon favorable in the
courts.
Last
I heard, Zebra One had suffered a heart attack and later moved to Las
Vegas. Gee I hope we had nothing to do with that. :-) Channel 29
returned to normal.
