chinatown bus run by the triads?

[Rogmok]

thats the rumor people have told me..

is it true?

[ellsworth81]

my brother claims it is
his gf uses the chinatown bus in phila ---> NY.
it's a madhouse.

[Rogmok]

yeah i've taken the NY-DC and NY-Boston ones.. and it gets pretty crazy.. pushin' over old women and stuff.. haha

or usually.. its more like.. getting pushed over BY old women

[Napoleon Chynamite]

wouldn't surprise me

those damn Chinese

[ellsworth81]

how'd this become a rant topic?

[tvbdude]

which ones? travel pack or fung wah? or both

[ModernLogic]

I bet it's the actually the Italian/Russian/Jewish mafias trying to make the Chinese look. Those Guineas/Vodka-Chuggers/Kikes.... Just kidding.

[applehead]

oh. i've heard that.
especially recently,
with the stabbing death
of employees of two rival bus companies
in chinatown.

[nonamerasian]

Sometimes I wonder how much some gangs own in certain areas.

It's a scary thought.

[BaiginLong]

well look at how Al Capone owned things back in the day and apply the effectiveness of the current law enforement system and you can get a close idea of how much gangs own

[MellowDrama]

LMAO! My friend took the DC to NYC one a few months back. They were showing T3 bootleg during the trip, when it was still out in the theatres!

DO NEVER TEST!

[deez nuts]

they're run by the shanghainese and the fukinese. mostly the fukinese.

as for gang ties or not, i dunno. but they're cutting into the profits of greyhound buses significantly.

[ChinaLama]

Greyhound < Shanghainese businessmen. GG.

[ellsworth81]

i am reading a book that conducted a research study on chinese triads and the amount of extortion activity that goes on in chinatowns, specifically in NYC. While violence wasn't as prominent in the data, the possibility is always there. i'll post the name and title a little later.

Sometimes I wonder how much some gangs own in certain areas.

It's a scary thought.

[ellsworth81]

Greyhound < Shanghainese businessmen. GG.
$5 one way. tough to beat that. even non-asians and extremely shady ppl are taking it.

[ChinaLama]

you know i ddint think about it as shady. in NY, it's 20 dollars round trip? to Philly, which isn't quite half Greyhound's price, and 40 bucks to DC. It's not THAT outlandishly cheap, is it? i mean is it so hard to imagine people making a legit profit from that? My sense of costs and prices is pretty whack, so I can't judge, really, but I just didn't think of it as triad-illegit. At the most, I thought, maybe they didn't have the right licenses or hired cheaper labor. But I pretty much doubt the "wrong licenses" thing cuz these companies are pretty big now and proly would be busted for licenses.

[deez nuts]

i am reading a book that conducted a research study on chinese triads and the amount of extortion activity that goes on in chinatowns, specifically in NYC. While violence wasn't as prominent in the data, the possibility is always there. i'll post the name and title a little later.


yeah but they got the best brothels and gambling houses.

[deez nuts]

you know i ddint think about it as shady. in NY, it's 20 dollars round trip? to Philly, which isn't quite half Greyhound's price, and 40 bucks to DC. It's not THAT outlandishly cheap, is it? i mean is it so hard to imagine people making a legit profit from that? My sense of costs and prices is pretty whack, so I can't judge, really, but I just didn't think of it as triad-illegit. At the most, I thought, maybe they didn't have the right licenses or hired cheaper labor. But I pretty much doubt the "wrong licenses" thing cuz these companies are pretty big now and proly would be busted for licenses.


compounded with the fact that asians are cheap asses.

[ellsworth81]

compounded with the fact that asians are cheap asses.

philadelphia doesn't have too many of those

[Rogmok]

i was wondering that too.. the NY-Boston bus is only $10 per a trip. That means if they max out on EVERY single bus, total revenue per bus is still only $560... which seems barely enough to cover expenses (assuming they didn't steal the buses, pay minium wage, don't default on their ezpass, and have statutory limits on their insurance policy)

[deez nuts]

you can take a van from flushing to chinatown for three bucks. one dollar to and two dollars back.

[ChinaLama]

you can take a van from flushing to chinatown for three bucks. one dollar to and two dollars back.

so i've been wasting a buck all this while? cuz i've always paid 2 to and 2 back.

[deez nuts]

yup

[ChinaLama]

i was wondering that too.. the NY-Boston bus is only $10 per a trip. That means if they max out on EVERY single bus, total revenue per bus is still only $560... which seems barely enough to cover expenses (assuming they didn't steal the buses, pay minium wage, don't default on their ezpass, and have statutory limits on their insurance policy)

is 560 for a single trip or per day? Even if we were really conservative and said they make $560/day, * 30 days a month = roughly 15000 per month. That's gotta be enough to pay for everything.

[Rogmok]

is 560 for a single trip or per day? Even if we were really conservative and said they make $560/day, * 30 days a month = roughly 15000 per month. That's gotta be enough to pay for everything.

hmm.. when you put it like that, doesn't seem as ludicrous..

[Ogumo]

thats the rumor people have told me..

is it true?


I believe it. My neighbor drives one of those shuttle buses. He usually has one or two parked out on the street...anyway he always is telling me about some ridiculous fight the drivers got into and about the heavy competition there.

[tvbdude]

I was on a bus from ny to boston and the driver was swearing at this white woman.

[nonamerasian]

The Fung Wah bus is in trouble.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2004/06/18/peter_pan_is_a_bully/

[robotic]

XD i only got that idea from playing grand theft auto v.city.

[AliBabaIncorporated]

all the minibuses here are run or extorted from by triads too. damn Chinese people.

[syc]

I dont think the chinatown buses are run by triads but they probly have to pay protection fees to them to operate, kind of like the minibuses in HK