Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Issue: 131   Editor: MikaMania


Rise of the Footsoldiers shot! BrickTamland
Earlier this week, a new crew ventured onto the Stats, a crew who very little knew anything about, who replaced The Sacred Empire. However, its stay on the Stats was to be a very short one. They were shot in order for The Deadly Alliance to return.

One of the Witness Statements showed JimmyMaranzano, a Boss of The Vanguard, as one of the shooters. The Buzz took a little time to question him over the little escapade and why it was necessary to shoot Rise of the Footsoldiers. First off, we asked him who was involved in the shooting and he informed us, "Myself, EpicWindowLicker and Glycerine", all The Vanguard members. Next we moved onto whether the shooting was meticulously planned or just a spur of the moment thing. He told us that he had planned it but mentioned, "nobody else had any idea."

In the light of The Deadly Alliance's return to the Stats, we asked one of the big questions; was it the main intention of this shooting to do just that and get The Deadly Alliance to return. He informed us, "I had a nice conversation with a oldskool player and TDA orginal boss, Wario", also known as Scorpion to many. JimmyMaranzano went on to say, "Unfortunately he will not be coming back, though afterwards, I said I'd return TDA back to the stats and hand the crew to Lukky. However, this came as a shock to Lukky."

We then returned to the hard facts of the shooting, and JimmyMaranzano told us there were three shooters, mentioned above, and, "about 6k points/300k bullets (not both)" were used to wipe them off the Stats completely. We asked whether there was a reason that they chose Rise of the Footsoldiers in particular, to which he replied with a simple "Maybe." Does this mean there was revenge that needed to be taken for some reason or were they just the easiest crew to take over at the time? A mystery, it seems, has yet to be unravelled. Maybe it will in time.

As we finished our brief interview, he added, "It's really nice to see a crew I co-founded over 4 years ago back on Stats! With the man I promoted to Underboss." Unfortunately, as of yet, we haven't been able to get in contact with the Bosses of Rise of the Footsoldiers for their response and their opinion on the matter. Hopefully though, we will either get a couple of words in the near future or perhaps they will rebuild and go after the crew which eventually replaced them, The Deadly Alliance or the shooters' crew, The Vanguard and make them pay for what they did.