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In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the "H.A.", "Red & White", and "81". [ 10 ] With a membership of over 6,000, and 592 charters in 66 countries, the HAMC is the largest "outlaw" motorcycle club in the world.
This can include providing them with protection, financing or carrying out violent acts at the discretion of the larger club. Logos and insignias of support clubs displayed as patches on biker vests may bear a similar color scheme reminiscent of the logo belonging to the principal club as a way of signifying their allegiance. [1] [2] [3]
Kane reported that, along with Boucher, Carroll was the Hells Angel who taken out the most contracts on the lives of Rock Machine members. [37] In his reports, Kane described Carroll as personally collecting intelligence on the Rock Machine, which was unusual for a "full patch" Hells Angel. [38]
They were trading patch for patch the legendary Hells Angel patch for some of the lowest of the low". [36] Shortly afterwards in early 2001, the Hells Angels were reported to have issued an ultimatum to the prospect and hang-around Outlaws operating in Ontario to either retire or join the Hells Angels. [49]
On 29 December 2000, most of the Ontario biker gangs in a mass "patch over" in at the clubhouse of the Hells Angels Montreal chapter in Sorel joined the Hells Angels. [2] In the ceremony in Sorel, 179 bikers from the Satan's Choice, Para-Dice Riders, the Last Chance, the Lobos, the Outlaws and the Rock Machine joined the Hells Angels, making ...
Plante never joined the Hells Angels as the group's rules require that a member be sponsored by a "full patch" Hells Angel who had known him for five years, which did not apply in his case. [15] Plante recorded Punko as telling him that the Hells Angel Gino Zumpano "took a walk" with Clayton Roueche, the leader of the United Nations gang. [20]
The Popeyes were patched over by the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in 1977 to form the Hells Angels Montreal chapter (a.k.a. the North Chapter), establishing the very first Hells Angels chapter in Canada. However, only a fraction of the Popeyes members were considered worthy of wearing the Hells Angels kutte and gang colors.