Post by Stu-E Price on Jul 28, 2007 8:40:24 GMT -5
HERMISH
After Ben left Alison he hooked up with a very bad man named Hermish Austin. He was the guy who got Dynamite hooked on coke. Hermish was a Calgarian of Persian heritage. He was born in Africa. When he was a teenager he went down to the Smiling Buddha Tattoo Parlor and spent thousands of dollars having the entire map of Africa tattooed on his back along with an elephant, water buffalo, lion, rhino and tiger. He loved his mother and hated his father and brother. He said his father was abusive, which may be the reason Hermish became a psychopath. It's hard to figure out why he went wrong. He was nice looking and a good athlete.
When he was 17 he was the Alberta Heavy Weight Junior bodybuilding champ. He trained at BJ's Gym and ran the juice bar. He also worked as a bouncer at a popular nightclub called Papillon's in the early 1980s. Hermish got into taking and then selling steroids and became more and more violent. The owners of Papillon's repeatedly warned him to stop being so aggressive with the customers.
Hermish loved to do people favors so they would owe him. He claimed that his first hit was in Germany. He apparently managed to board a plane with a concealed knife and slit a guy's throat there. In Calgary, he hung around with another bodyguard named Mark Gibbons—or Gibby. Both were heavily into drugs.
The story goes that Gibby ripped some people off and Hermish was asked to take care of it. Hermish bragged that he and some other tough guys hung Gibby by the arms a few feet off the ground in a warehouse and beat him while they interrogated him about the whereabouts of the missing drugs and money. When Gibby finally told them, Hermish said, "We can't just let him go." He calmly walked over and chopped Gibby's foot off with an ax.
Hermish began working at a steel factory and claimed he used to get rid of the bodies by chopping them up and throwing them in the blast furnace. By the time Ben joined him, Hermish was buying cocaine in Central America, shipping it to the Bahamas and sending mules over to bring it back—a couple of kilos at a time. One of his mules was his girlfriend Wendy Milligan. Hermish was so jealous when it came to Wendy and other men, that he was said to have slit a guy's throat in front of her because he placed his hand on her knee.
Hermish eventually got caught and went to jail in 1994 due to Wendy. Her brother Darrin got involved with Hermish but something went wrong and Darrin disappeared. The police found his clothes and glasses in a downtown dumpster. It is said that Hermish killed him in Vancouver, welded him to a 45-gallon oil drum and dumped him in the ocean.
Wendy went to the police and told them Hermish was responsible for a lot of the disappearances of various low life drug addicts they were investigating. This included a case involving 24 year-old Greg Kungel. Court documents show that Hermish picked up Greg as a hitchhiker somewhere in Vancouver. Greg was living on the streets so Hermish brought him back to his house in Deer Run in Calgary and let him work for him. Day after day, Greg watched all this money roll in and out and one day he pocketed $15,000 and took off.
This was 1990. Darrin helped Hermish hunt this kid down and when they caught him it was awful. They cut off his ears with scissors and they beat him with a baseball bat. They took a blowtorch to his feet. Then transported him outside of Calgary where Hermish shot him in the back of the head and slit his throat while taunting him, "Tough to breathe, huh?"
All in all, Hermish is said to have killed 50 people and plenty of the people who asked him to do some of these killings still owe him favors.
Anyway this is the lovely person stupid Davey and Ben got hooked up with. In 1989, Hermish fancied himself a cross between the Hell's Angels and the mafia, but he needed some muscle to look dangerous. So he recruited Ben and Ben recruited Davey. Davey was more of a mascot. Hermish gave Davey a brand new Harley Davidson Soft Tail. Davey rode it all through the summer of 1990 with Hermish and his gang. But they showed Davey no respect.
One time they rode out to Cochrane to try out some new guns. Some of the guys grabbed Davey's helmet and propped it up on the fence and shot it to pieces. That winter Davey got a call from Ben in jail. Hermish was arrested and needed money for his defense. Davey was to take the bike to a retailer, Kane's Harley Davidson, for resale. You didn't fool around with these guys. Davey did what he was told.
After Ben left Alison he hooked up with a very bad man named Hermish Austin. He was the guy who got Dynamite hooked on coke. Hermish was a Calgarian of Persian heritage. He was born in Africa. When he was a teenager he went down to the Smiling Buddha Tattoo Parlor and spent thousands of dollars having the entire map of Africa tattooed on his back along with an elephant, water buffalo, lion, rhino and tiger. He loved his mother and hated his father and brother. He said his father was abusive, which may be the reason Hermish became a psychopath. It's hard to figure out why he went wrong. He was nice looking and a good athlete.
When he was 17 he was the Alberta Heavy Weight Junior bodybuilding champ. He trained at BJ's Gym and ran the juice bar. He also worked as a bouncer at a popular nightclub called Papillon's in the early 1980s. Hermish got into taking and then selling steroids and became more and more violent. The owners of Papillon's repeatedly warned him to stop being so aggressive with the customers.
Hermish loved to do people favors so they would owe him. He claimed that his first hit was in Germany. He apparently managed to board a plane with a concealed knife and slit a guy's throat there. In Calgary, he hung around with another bodyguard named Mark Gibbons—or Gibby. Both were heavily into drugs.
The story goes that Gibby ripped some people off and Hermish was asked to take care of it. Hermish bragged that he and some other tough guys hung Gibby by the arms a few feet off the ground in a warehouse and beat him while they interrogated him about the whereabouts of the missing drugs and money. When Gibby finally told them, Hermish said, "We can't just let him go." He calmly walked over and chopped Gibby's foot off with an ax.
Hermish began working at a steel factory and claimed he used to get rid of the bodies by chopping them up and throwing them in the blast furnace. By the time Ben joined him, Hermish was buying cocaine in Central America, shipping it to the Bahamas and sending mules over to bring it back—a couple of kilos at a time. One of his mules was his girlfriend Wendy Milligan. Hermish was so jealous when it came to Wendy and other men, that he was said to have slit a guy's throat in front of her because he placed his hand on her knee.
Hermish eventually got caught and went to jail in 1994 due to Wendy. Her brother Darrin got involved with Hermish but something went wrong and Darrin disappeared. The police found his clothes and glasses in a downtown dumpster. It is said that Hermish killed him in Vancouver, welded him to a 45-gallon oil drum and dumped him in the ocean.
Wendy went to the police and told them Hermish was responsible for a lot of the disappearances of various low life drug addicts they were investigating. This included a case involving 24 year-old Greg Kungel. Court documents show that Hermish picked up Greg as a hitchhiker somewhere in Vancouver. Greg was living on the streets so Hermish brought him back to his house in Deer Run in Calgary and let him work for him. Day after day, Greg watched all this money roll in and out and one day he pocketed $15,000 and took off.
This was 1990. Darrin helped Hermish hunt this kid down and when they caught him it was awful. They cut off his ears with scissors and they beat him with a baseball bat. They took a blowtorch to his feet. Then transported him outside of Calgary where Hermish shot him in the back of the head and slit his throat while taunting him, "Tough to breathe, huh?"
All in all, Hermish is said to have killed 50 people and plenty of the people who asked him to do some of these killings still owe him favors.
Anyway this is the lovely person stupid Davey and Ben got hooked up with. In 1989, Hermish fancied himself a cross between the Hell's Angels and the mafia, but he needed some muscle to look dangerous. So he recruited Ben and Ben recruited Davey. Davey was more of a mascot. Hermish gave Davey a brand new Harley Davidson Soft Tail. Davey rode it all through the summer of 1990 with Hermish and his gang. But they showed Davey no respect.
One time they rode out to Cochrane to try out some new guns. Some of the guys grabbed Davey's helmet and propped it up on the fence and shot it to pieces. That winter Davey got a call from Ben in jail. Hermish was arrested and needed money for his defense. Davey was to take the bike to a retailer, Kane's Harley Davidson, for resale. You didn't fool around with these guys. Davey did what he was told.