Ghost-Riding the Whip on Alki Ave
Alki Beach residents were mortified Sunday by the invasion of music-blaring “gang members” into their otherwise peaceful environs. Various reports indicate that these visitors engaged in some spirited ghost-riding the whip.
I don’t see much MTV/BET, but I think ghost-riding the whip is the party fad popularized by this E-40 video. You get your car rolling in neutral, then you climb out and begin dancing alongside it. A hip-hop blasting stereo is recommended. Judging by this video, performing this stunt on a steep hill is not recommended.
Here is a firsthand report by a resident who wrote in anonymously to the Alki Beach newsgroup to alert neighbors:
On Sunday April 23rd scores if not hundreds of gang members* and their supporters took over the main street at Alki beach blocking traffic in both directions and creating terror in the neighborhood. Harassing every car that tried to get through they stood in front of the cars forcing them to stop then swarming around the victims cars trying to provoke some kind of defense by the victim, no doubt to hoping for an excuse for more violence. They rocked vehicles, sometimes jumping on them or rolling across the hood or trunk. There was one gangster racing an SUV up and down the street snaking back and forth across both lanes into and into oncoming traffic. First forward screeching to a stop at the side a car and screaming obscenities at whomever happened to be the randomly chosen victim trying to intimidate and provoke more violence then he’d slam the SUV in reverse and with the passenger door wide open race toward the next victim’s cars who was forced the veer away barely able to avoid impact or running into pedestrians.
* It is unclear how the witness succeeded in confirming the suspects’ membership in gangs.
Maybe they were just shooting another E-40 music video......?