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copy cats

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 10:17 am
by the blue fox
my first post!!! did anyone have a copy cat gang as a kid after seeing the warriors??? i was 9 yrs old and immediately formed 'the scrumpers' with the kids in our street.

Re: copy cats

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:06 pm
by wargod
the blue fox wrote:my first post!!! did anyone have a copy cat gang as a kid after seeing the warriors??? i was 9 yrs old and immediately formed 'the scrumpers' with the kids in our street.



whats a scrumper?

Re: copy cats

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 2:59 pm
by turnbull gbr
I'm guessing something to do with apple scrumping 8) I loved doing it as a kid.

Re: copy cats

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:03 pm
by the blue fox
dead right, apple scrumping, although comin from Highfields (inner city) Leicester there wernt a lot of apple trees around! Just liked the name.

Re: copy cats

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:28 am
by 4nik8
wargod wrote:whats a scrumper?
turnbull gbr wrote:I'm guessing something to do with apple scrumping 8) I loved doing it as a kid.
ah, that makes sense then...

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what the hell's apple scrumping?!?!?

Re: copy cats

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 5:24 am
by turnbull gbr
You find an apple tree usually in someone's back garden, you run in as fast as you can, steal as many apples as fast as you can, then run away as fast as you can! great fun.

Re: copy cats

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:03 pm
by Ninth Delegate
And thus was born the apple cider drink called scrumpy.

Never had a copycat gang but did form a B boy crew called Auto Breakers. We got the name from 2 sources. There was a popular kids tv show on a saturday afternoon called Auto-man (from what I remember, the main guy used to phone up his computer and it would return a data stream down the phone line and turn him into a "Tron" type superhero) and there was a local car scrap yard also called auto breakers.

Re: copy cats

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 4:38 pm
by Suburban Warlord
There's this radio show on Sunday's called "Breakfast with the Beatles". The host calls the fans "Apple Scruffs."
Although I know that has alot more to do with the Beatle's old record label, but I wonder if there is a connection.

Re: copy cats

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 5:56 pm
by Godfather
Me and a friend formed the Dragons for about two weeks in the 6th grade. LOL, it was more like a club of two geeks who were into dugeons and dragons.

Re: copy cats

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:26 pm
by Suburban Warlord
Hey, when yer 12 years old, it can hurt getting hit in the face with a sack of D20's. (spare me any lewd
references please).

Re: copy cats

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:32 am
by wargod
i remember when i was 12 i got into a fight with "gangster disciples" and me and my friends beat the crap out of them. We got hit a few times but we had more blood on our knuckles then anything else lol

Re: copy cats

Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:25 pm
by GrandTheftAaron
Suburban Warlord wrote:There's this radio show on Sunday's called "Breakfast with the Beatles". The host calls the fans "Apple Scruffs."
Although I know that has alot more to do with the Beatle's old record label, but I wonder if there is a connection.
We've got one of those same shows on Sundays called "Beatles Brunch" on our oldies channel here in Des Moines! Well I guess the closest I came to having a "gang" is when I was in my 8th grade gym class and our flag football team's name was The Warriors

Re: copy cats

Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 1:25 am
by neo
lol, scrumpers

Re: copy cats

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:49 am
by KingOfConey
Cobden Warriors ( i lived in the suburb Cobden) we use to steal stuff like mail boxes and signs nothing important i was ten at the time i cant think about it now without laughing

Re: copy cats

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:08 am
by Rate 5
When I was 9/10 I was in The Milperra Boyz ( yes, tragically with a "z") , we'd cruise around on bmx's and our Powell peraltas, rock shit tags and steal Garbage Pail Kids from the shops,set fires, all sorts of kid stuff. Good times!! actually, some of the TMB tags are still around :D