Not because I really care if the Hell's Angels are a legitimate organisation in Dutch eyes or not.
But, in 1969, the Hell's Angels provided security for the Altamont Free Concert, armed primarily with sawn-off pool cues and motorcycle chains, and they stabbed someone who was high on amphetamines and wanting to shoot Mick Jagger.
Now they're dealing with their problems by filing court claims? Sic transit gloria mundi.
Or, as P.J. O'Rourke put it when describing post-Communist Moscow:
The only way to enforce a contract is, as it were, with a contract — and plenty of enforcers. What would be litigiousness in New York is a hail of bullets in Moscow. Instead of a society infested with lawyers, they have a society infested with hit men. Which is worse, of course, is a matter of opinion.
And they did this in New York, as well. How depressing can you get?
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