teardrop tattoo - significance?

[murphy55d]

I'm sure you know what I'm referring to. However, does it signify that YOU have killed someone, or you KNOW SOMEONE who has been killed? I have heard both ways, can anyone clarify? Saw some retards at the mall with 2 or 3 of them, got me thinking.

 

[Platypus]

teardrop usually means you killed someone, gang related

 

[MercenaryForHire]

It means you're a fake thug.

- M4H

 

[Zim Hosein]

I thought it meant you were someones bit*h?

 

[FoBoT]

gang related, something about a dead people

 

[glen]

It means you are one of those peopel who never uses snopes.
Every new urban ledgend you believe makes you get another tear tatoo.

 

[Ticks]

thought it had to do with being in prison

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: glen
It means you are one of those peopel who never uses snopes.
Every new urban ledgend you believe makes you get another tear tatoo.

Where is it in snopes?

 

[murphy55d]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: glen
It means you are one of those peopel who never uses snopes.
Every new urban ledgend you believe makes you get another tear tatoo.

Where is it in snopes?

It's not on snopes, because it isn't an urban legend. It has some kind of gang significance, I just am not clear on what it is.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Originally posted by: murphy55d
However, does it signify that YOU have killed someone, or you KNOW SOMEONE who has been killed?

I've heard both before. Mostly it makes them look like wannabe punks.

 

[Mo0o]

I think it makes more sense if it's you know someone who has been killed, since youre shedding a permanent tear for them righT?

 

[Locut0s]

http://www.shannonspanhake.org/vis40/winter/cng/tattoosindex.html

 

[snowdogg187]

I would sure hire some loser with one of those!!!

 

[murphy55d]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
I think it makes more sense if it's you know someone who has been killed, since youre shedding a permanent tear for them righT?

Yeah, that's what I thought too. Not sure, though.

 

[murphy55d]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
http://www.shannonspanhake.org/vis40/winter/cng/tattoosindex.html

Interesting. Thanks for the link.

 

[hzl eyed grl]

I've always known it to mean that they've killed someone. I know a woman who used to be in a gang and has one.

 

[Rudee]

Like most tattoos, a cry for attention.

 

[shurato]

It means you know someone who died... maybe it used to signify you killed someone but not anymore around here. I see little kids, girls, old men with those stupid ass tattoos around where I used to work.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Like most tattoos, a cry for attention.

Booo!

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: snowdogg187
I would sure hire some loser with one of those!!!

Would you be thrilled about the prospect of hiring a gang member without the tattoos?

 

[hjo3]

I seem to remember hearing that it meant the wearer had killed someone while in prison.

 

[bootymac]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Like most tattoos, a cry for attention.

 

[Judgement]

From what I know, the tear drop never had anything to do with the person actually killing someone. If you are a cold blooded killer why would you get a tear drop put on your cheek. At least from what I know the tear drop had to do with someone close to you dying, and the closed drop ment it was a family member and an open one ment it was a gang member. Of course there were millions of exceptions where gang members considered a fellow member family and it ended up a closed tear.

I'm sure its different from place to place though.