Having heard that Lee Murray was a Sherdogger, the last thing I'm going to do is write stories of crime that directly relate back to me involving his mates! Haha!
One thing I will say - extortion is a real thing. The way it works is that if you have a product and make a connection with them, but aren't "family", they will be your best bud, make you feel amazing, birds, parties... Then they offer to help you out. For free. Then they come to you and ask for a small piece of the business as payment. This time it will just be the tough guys, and the charismatic leader guy isn't being so charming any more. Then they continue to "promote" the business for you, in other words extort advertisers/agents/bookers/buyers in to paying for your product, increasing revenue, then they take a bigger cut, and a bigger cut, until one day you're signing away the business you built with your hands to a bunch of dudes that left school at 11, and still paying for the office that they're banging hookers in... And if you complain in any way, it's taken as disrespect and you're likely going to get hurt. Say a word to any authority and you're dead. Talk to a nice girl and their group will call her over and say "he'll be over in a minute" and then give you the finger as they leave with her later.. Order booze for a bar, the next day you come in and you're joking at 100 bottles with anti-shoplifters tags on them from Sainsbury...
Mental.
