"Please play Luca Brasi Sleeps With The Fishes" - Jailed mobsters sent messages via DJ song requests

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Jailed mobsters sent messages via DJ song requests

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/29/mafia-radio-station-closed

Radio station among businesses closed as 30 arrested over involvement in Calabrian mafia

"I'm gonna write a little letter," sang Chuck Berry. "Gonna mail it to my local DJ."

Alleged mafia godfather Salvatore Pesce did the same but not just because he needed "a shot of rhythm and blues".

Rather Pesce, jailed five years ago on suspicion of international narcotics trafficking, and his fellow mobsters are accused of using a local radio station to send coded messages to each other.

On Wednesday Radio Olimpia, a station that operated an unlicensed transmitter from premises in the mafia-ridden city of Rosarno, was one of five companies closed and sequestered by police in an operation that also led to the arrest of 30 people accused of involvement in the Calabrian mafia or 'Ndrangheta. Another 10 for whom arrest warrants were issued were still on the run.

Michele Prestipino, the deputy chief prosecutor of Reggio Calabria who co-ordinated the operation, wryly codenamed Operation All Inside, told reporters Radio Olimpia was "an important means of communication in the context of the clan's strategies".

It was particularly suited for sending messages to jailed mobsters such as Pesce, who police believe was keen to know about the outcome of an application by his lawyer for his release.

Police listening in on a conversation between Pesce and his wife at Palmi jail in southern Italy heard him talking about record requests and concluded there was more to it than a love of music.

According to a transcript leaked to the daily Il Giornale, Pesce told his wife, after scribbling down the name of a tune: "If it's positive you send me this song on the radio tonight. If it's negative you send me another."

[RandomThoughts]

1. I find that really funny.

What I do, is think of something I want to say. Then try to find a song that says something like that.

And they just appear, either as a thought or on a search, (I find them first in my head then search for them and use many ways, books, TV, Radio, Jukebox, CDs and search engines. Just adding that part for spinners. I also have written my own songs sometimes.)


However it is possible for someone to post something hoping that it will hint to a certain video. Which is why going off of really odd connections is best.

For instance, the response to that would be to play a song by the group Yes maybe? Or maybe a song with lots of no no no in it?


Or they might think about maybe :)
Maybe,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycTX4QI418c


So I think post like that are hints :)


What ending? LOL, I wonder what could be ending? :rofl: Ha, I got it LOL. No problem, it probably embarresed the people that thought that is what it meant. LOL "sucky ending" LOL



But that is not the weird thing. I have the same sweater without the art work that the guy with the hat has in this clip, from Camp North Star.

Meatballs Camp North Star Song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4N66sWvZiQ



Just to be sure, for the crazies, I am not talking about what the article is talking about, I abhore violence, it is bad.