San Jose Strip Clubs: The Trailer Park Boys canon

10:50 p.m.: A really young, pre-Juno Ellen Page shows up for a nice, heartfelt subplot as Lahey’s daughter who befriends Julian. But most of the plotting for this season seems to come across like The Wire for dummies as the boys try to grow weed out of an Airstream to sell to prison guards. It’s mostly amusing, but nothing really stands out.
11:16 p.m.: The fifth episode of season two, “The Bible Pimp,” is easily the best of the series up to this point. While poking fun at a pair of religious types who come to Sunnyvale to sell overpriced bibles seems like shooting fish in a barrel, the episode contains a dark and creepy vibe that gives Bubbles room to grow as a character. The whole thing ends with a gleefully deranged shootout in a strip club parking lot.

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San Jose Strip Clubs: Funeral held for Hells Angel killed at fellow biker’s burial

Bikers from Tausan’s home club, along with Henchmen, Devils Dolls and many others from as far away as New England and abroad, made up a long line of mourners. They paid their last respects as he lay in the casket, draped with an American flag and custom painted with the Angels’ death’s head with wings and the Marine Corps insignia. Tausan was clad in his leather Hells Angels vest, with a pack of Marlboros and an extended combat knife in his folded hands.
Next to the casket, there was a blown-up photo of him as a young Marine, his military haircut in stark contrast to the long, silvery mane he sported when he died. Also arrayed around the casket were pictures of Tausan on his Victory motorcycle and with his friends and family.
Tausan was better known than most Angels because of the charges he faced in the 1997 beating death of a man at the Pink Poodle strip club in San Jose. He was acquitted.

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San Jose Strip Clubs: Another Hells Angel funeral slated for Oak Hill cemetery, but this one will be …

Summer Pettigrew, Jethro’s daughter, was very close to Tausan, and she also knew Ruiz.
“I don’t know why he did it,” she said. “I don’t feel anything, completely numb. I can’t mourn my dad, and now I can’t mourn Steve. It feels like a movie — a really bad movie.”
Jethro Pettigrew was a longtime city of San Jose heavy equipment operator who also happened to be the president of the local Hells Angels.
Tausan was a Hells Angels legend, an ex-boxer who had killed a man with his fists at the Pink Poodle strip club — and walked when a jury acquitted him after he claimed self-defense. The tattooed bail bondsman once proudly showed a reporter some photographs on his cellphone: many of his young son, and one of the bloody face of the man he had killed.

See the full article from “Contra Costa Times”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Funeral held for Hells Angel killed at fellow biker’s burial begins

Bikers from Tausan’s home club, along with Henchmen, Devils Dolls and many others from as far away as New England and abroad, made up a long line of mourners. They paid their last respects as he lay in the casket, draped with an American flag and custom painted with the Angels’ death’s head with wings and the Marine Corps insignia. Tausan was clad in his leather Hells Angels vest, with a pack of Marlboros and an extended combat knife in his folded hands.
Next to the casket, there was a blown-up photo of him as a young Marine, his military haircut in stark contrast to the long, silvery mane he sported when he died. Also arrayed around the casket were pictures of Tausan on his Victory motorcycle and with his friends and family.
Tausan was better known than most Angels because of the charges he faced in the 1997 beating death of a man at the Pink Poodle strip club in San Jose. He was acquitted.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Another Hells Angel funeral slated for Oak Hill cemetery, but this one will be …

Summer Pettigrew, Jethro’s daughter, was very close to Tausan, and she also knew Ruiz.
“I don’t know why he did it,” she said. “I don’t feel anything, completely numb. I can’t mourn my dad, and now I can’t mourn Steve. It feels like a movie — a really bad movie.”
Jethro Pettigrew was a longtime city of San Jose heavy equipment operator who also happened to be the president of the local Hells Angels.
Tausan was a Hells Angels legend, an ex-boxer who had killed a man with his fists at the Pink Poodle strip club — and walked when a jury acquitted him after he claimed self-defense. The tattooed bail bondsman once proudly showed a reporter some photographs on his cellphone: many of his young son, and one of the bloody face of the man he had killed.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Another Hells Angel funeral slated for Oak Hill cemetery, but this one will be …

Summer Pettigrew, Jethro’s daughter, was very close to Tausan … and knew Tausan’s alleged killer.
“I don’t know why he did it,” she said. “I don’t feel anything, completely numb. I can’t mourn my dad and now I can’t mourn Steve. It feels like a movie — a really bad movie.”
Her father was a longtime city of San Jose heavy equipment operator who also happened to be the president of the local Hells Angels.
Tausan was a Hells Angels legend, and ex-boxer who had killed a man with his fists at the Pink Poodle strip club — and walked when a jury acquitted him after he claimed self-defense. The tattooed bail bondsman once proudly showed a reporter some photographs on his cell phone: many of his young son and one of the bloody face of the man he had killed.

See the full article from “San Jose Mercury News”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Police Step Up Search for Hells Angels Shooting Suspect

… STOCKTON, Calif.) — Police searched a Stockton, Calif., home and the surrounding area late Saturday night after receiving a tip that the suspected shooter of a Hells Angel member was hiding out in the central California town.
But the search for Steve Ruiz, 38, turned up empty, Sgt. Jason Dwyer of the San Jose, Calif., police department told ABCNews.com.
Ruiz, who is also a Hells Angels member, is wanted for allegedly gunning down Steve Tausan, 52, last weekend at a San Jose cemetery where thousands were attending the burial of another Hells Angels member who was murdered in September at a Nevada casino.
Tausan had told the San Jose Mercury News that he had received death threats following his friend’s murder Sept. 23, the newspaper reported.
Tausan was notoriously tried and acquitted for the 1997 fatal beating of a Pink Poodle strip club patron.

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San Jose Strip Clubs: Stockton search for Hells Angels slaying suspect comes up empty

Police said Ruiz is in the company of Christel Renee Trujillo, 42, also known as Christel Renee Ferguson, and that her life “is now in danger.”
The two are possibly traveling in a gold or pewter Chevrolet Suburban. No year of the vehicle or license plate number was available.
Ruiz has family and associates in Arizona and New York and may try to contact them, Dwyer said.
Police said Pettigrew was shot and killed Sept. 23 by Ernesto Manuel Gonzalez, an alleged member of the rival Vagos motorcycle gang, at John Ascuaga’s Nugget casino in Sparks, Nev. Gonzalez, 53, of San Jose was arrested by a UCSF police officer in San Francisco six days later.
Tausan and the manager of the Pink Poodle, a strip club west of San Jose, were tried for murder in 1999 in the beating death of a club customer two years earlier. They were acquitted on grounds of self-defense.

See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Officers search for Hells Angels shooter

Police said Ruiz is in the company of Christel Renee Trujillo, 42, also known as Christel Renee Ferguson, and that her life “is now in danger.”
The two are possibly traveling in a gold or pewter Chevrolet Suburban. No year of the vehicle or license plate number was available.
Ruiz has family and associates in Arizona and New York and may try to contact them, Dwyer said.
Police said Pettigrew was shot and killed Sept. 23 by Ernesto Manuel Gonzalez, an alleged member of the rival Vagos motorcycle gang, at John Ascuaga’s Nugget casino in Sparks, Nev. Gonzalez, 53, of San Jose was arrested by a UCSF police officer in San Francisco six days later.
Tausan and the manager of the Pink Poodle, a strip club west of San Jose, were tried for murder in 1999 in the beating death of a club customer two years earlier. They were acquitted on grounds of self-defense.

See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle”

San Jose Strip Clubs: Hells Angels funeral slaying suspect is alive, cops say

Police said Ruiz is in the company of Christel Renee Trujillo, 42, also known as Christel Renee Ferguson and that her life “is now in danger.”
The two are possibly traveling in a gold or pewter Chevrolet Suburban. No year of the vehicle or license plate number was available.
Ruiz has family and associates in Arizona and New York and may try to contact them, Dwyer said.
Police said Pettigrew was shot and killed Sept. 23 by Ernesto Manuel Gonzalez, an alleged member of the rival Vagos motorcycle gang, at John Ascuaga’s Nugget casino in Sparks, Nev. Gonzalez, 53, of San Jose was arrested by a UCSF police officer in San Francisco six days later.
Tausan and the manager of the Pink Poodle, a strip club west of San Jose, were tried for murder in 1999 in the beating death of a club customer two years earlier. They were acquitted on grounds of self-defense.

See the full article from “San Francisco Chronicle”

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