Remember: Everything is negotiable, and I mean EVERYTHING!

If you pay the guy something, and act like you're his friend, he'll accept it. This is coming from somebody that KNOWS about this shit. I'm not bragging - I was never a gang member or anything, but this is something that you learn at a young age here.

The guy in the middle of the Soprano picture below was a wiseguy in my neighborhood - I didn't know him (as least I don't remember him), but he ended up in jail in the 1970's (I think), and became an "actor" when the
whole Godfather thing started getting big in Hollywood.

We had the "Crazy" Joe Gallo gang, the Luchese Family mob, Joe Colombo, Gotti, etc., in New York. Crazy Joe had a fucking TIGER in a cage in his Brooklyn basement, and would show it to people that owed him money. Needless to say, they paid. Most of the mobsters had "collectors" that would go around picking up "protection" money, debts owed to the loan shark operators, numbers racket tabs, etc. They'd usually persuade people to pay them by roughing them up, fracturing an arm, etc., before it came to actual killing. It's just "business" to them - sometimes they actually LIKED various people that they beat up, but it's their job. Of course, they are sociopaths and all, but I've met a few, in bars, etc., that were OK people.

Don't let the people on here influence you to do something stupid - they don't give a fuck about what happens to you.

Below: Former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller gives his opinion to hippie protesters, c. 1970's.