The Birthplace of Sydney’s Crime Culture, GLEBE 2037 - Into The Hood

I've had two home Invaders you got home

invaded twice three bles on Ice the

second time they made a mistake they

wanted the dealers who live a bit

further up wrong house just lift it up

yeah what do you mean and now you can

ride it that's the move lad we all lose

your pride H your way inside if you run

away physical Warfare

psycholog just I'm spion oh was raised

in the housing areas of Sydney City

spent most of my youth and adult life in

prison and after a total of 13 years I'm

free and I'm out and about flying around

susing out the hoods all over the world

it's

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h we have shocking footage tonight of a

Teenage gang causing Mayhem on the

streets of Inner City glei Cafe workers

had to barric their doors a delivery

rider was cornered and bashed police

have shot dead a man in Sydney officers

were responding to welfare concerns in

Glee but were confronted by a

43-year-old armed with a knife a gang of

Thieves allegedly armed with assault

rifles and a pistol tried to rob an

armag guard fan outside the Broadway

Shopping Center in GLE all right

everyone welcome back into the hood

we're going to GLE blad we're going

abl we're doing another one of the hoods

in the inner city this is another Hood

in my area there's a few hoods in the

city right these were the first suburbs

of Sydney these were the first housing

Estates in Sydney and for a long long

time these were the infamous and worst

and biggest housing Estates of Sydney in

the criminal world in the jail system

it's a famous suburb that a lot of

criminals a lot of Originators the boys

from around here were all the same boys

waloo red firm watero Glee and in the

prison system we're all the same boys

right we're one crew Glee isn't the

biggest red firm water is the biggest

but there's something special about GLE

and I'll get into it the boys who were

older boys when I was a kid around GLE

were very influential and and I'm

telling you this from my experience and

anyone in Sydney this isn't a biased

thing boys who are proper boys from penr

who are OJ's boys from Campbell town

boys from bwood boys from bankstown

doesn't matter what part in Sydney

you're from will agree to what I'm

saying here the older boys from GLE that

I had the pleasure of being raised

around and looking up to were very

influential in shaping the culture the

criminal culture in the streets of

Sydney as a whole and New South Wales as

a whole and I dare say leading on from

that Australia as a whole because it's

known Australia wide that criminal

culture of Sydney City or Sydney in

general has been adopted all around

Australia there's people in Perth people

in Brisbane people in Adelaide I've been

a ho but there's people there been in

Melbourne there's people there who are

dressing and are walking and are talking

like the people from Sydney and that's

that's just the fact you might be upset

that I say that but that's the way it is

so in that sense a lot of what you see

going on around the country originated

in Sydney City and very specifically in

Glee a lot of it glee at one point in

time was the highest rate of armed

robbers bank robbers in Australia GLE at

one point in time was the highest rate

of ram Raiders in Australia Cruise of

boys getting around and that's that was

the thing in Glee it was a money-making

cultural style and so visually the way

the housing Estates are there's two

different styles in Sydney City so

there's the style of su Hills and watero

where it's all big towers and there's

the styles of red fern GLE and wuloo

where it's all houses it's all like town

houses but really really old school

houses nowadays each one of those houses

the funny thing has become a really high

quality Heritage home that's worth like

$10 million each or something crazy I'm

probably exaggerating it's crazy the

turnaround people are dying and to buy

old housing commissions in Sydney City

so you can understand with that going on

how much private developers are battling

and people in the government are pushing

to kick everyone out of these areas in

Housing Commission and sell them off for

crazy amounts of money and recently

Glee's been getting real bad again and I

mean recent recent like 3 4 days ago it

was on the news there was like gangs of

teenagers on the Main Street trying to

break in a store and just generally

harassing people but apparently it's

getting bad again like there's a whole

new generation of um young Lads coming

through running a big Mark I've got

statistics here these are recent this is

like last year's statistics just crimes

in general is over triple the state

average violent crimes is just under

triple the state average and property

crimes is almost four times the state

average even though I most identify with

Walo it's toed on my chest and that's on

the other side of the city if we walked

right instead of left having said that

this is actually where I grew up like my

family home this is where my mom lived

and this is where I went to school I

went to school in GLE high so yeah I

guess in a way this is actually most

where I'm from but you identify with

where you become one of the boys the

most and where where your crew is and

where all your best mates are and where

you kick back on the streets whether

that's two streets that way four streets

that way or the street you grew up on

you know what I mean the housing block I

grew up in which was the first of the

city west housing was down this Lane

through these Flats here and there's a

lane down there and that's the back that

was my back Lane so this here including

here this was my back Lane as a kid that

that's where my mom lived down there not

that I was there much but that was my

address when Paro asked wasn't

it and like from

here past this street that's GLE this is

the start of them this is them it begins

from

now these all government housing what

you doing I spotted one of the boys I'm

doing snipers on his on his house giving

the history lessons red what are you

doing just saying like when you leave

the city this is where the housing

starts yeah yeah and he's like I was

just showing him like the front of your

house and the i showing him the front of

his house where you going to see your

mom there yeah yeah M you been all right

yeah good good back from Tha did you

yeah yeah mad hey are kickboxing yeah

yeah mad BR later that's one of the boys

red blad that's one of the Glade boys

and this is the style of Housing

Commission that that is this is Sydney

City it's all the same same people same

streets different names that's all by

the way I don't know if I told you in

the intro but we're meeting one of the

boys from G Hing Hing he's a famous Tik

tocker now he's he's one of the Glade

boys plenty of jail been around it all

he's a little bit younger than me he's a

good generation under me but he's been

amongst it all grew up in G his whole

life in and out of the system got locked

up on some serious stuff beat some big

charges his older brother's one of the

main boys down here one of the old Trend

Setters back in the day and yeah we're

going to meet him nowadays he's a famous

Tik

tocker let's jump what you on time

reference Sunday 1:00 in the

AO I can see him there hey

there go

go holy let me start by saying this bro

like before we even get into it right

see all this here and see all of those

brand new units all the way up there

that until recently that was the worst

part of GLE yeah I used to live in El

Street when when we moov from the bush

we come down here this was back in 2006

bro we used to live here in El street so

this was my old Street Bar you know

we're missing Dead Set four five streets

of just trap flats that don't even exist

anymore they're all brand new apartments

good thing but little broken heart

memories eh right mad m

that's all I can say you know I only

sprung it on him 2 hours ago I buzzed

him 10 10 and he goes what do you want

you going to get a feed I go n into the

hood L he's like where

what so this this tell us this sign bar

this is Iconic if You' seen my my my

video ill or pretty much any video in

GLE that anyone's everever done this is

an iconic sign you wouldn't believe it

if I told you but I spray pain

this all done this me the we done this

back in the day so was it was it in

primary school was it the PC no this was

a YY so we done this back in the day

mean the boys we all done this so the

coke color sign is like the GLE sign you

know so you know gle's like Coke but you

know mean oh the Coke sign at the cross

yeah yeah yeah the Coke sign at the

cross this one just needs to light up

and then it says 2037 say the seven it

say say a 711 it say seven Reon you know

what me 2037 Reon instead of say 71 say

7 you know he M he mad it see say the 7

11

12 tumbo come chucked up on

it but tumbo is probably the only person

I was going to say that if it was anyone

else he'd be getting bashed if it was

anyone else but he's one of the O he's

one of the OG's proper OG's tumbo just

comes out I'm riding on it sorry bro you

can in GLE it's more this is the style

of of of housy but this just a oneof

yeah this is one one off right this one

eye R you know I lost one of one of my

best mates bro to this couple years ago

what what happened no he suicidal BR

jump off like I red from L yeah fair

enough bro like there's a lot of

buildings and this and that bro this is

the only one in Glade BR and this is

where he done it you know and so every

time he come down he BR you know sort of

hits us know mean bro big shout to

brother Lo love brother that's how it

happened I was going to ask bro but I

didn't want to Chuck his name out and be

disrespectful is that where is that

where it happened fire out bro yeah when

we come down here you know with the boys

and that we don't really we just keep

back here you know but don't really like

coming down here much you know yeah but

yeah this is the GL Flats BR you know

and it's but they just painted it yeah

yeah looks it used to be this baby blue

rotten blue yeah this street here

Mitchell Street this is sort of like one

of the streets one of the main streets

of GLE runs right through the center of

glay Bay all the way from the bottom

bottom of Wentworth Park straight all

the way up to the top right you know to

the top like West M and that yeah so

this this street here just go straight

for the middle of the whole thing bro

you know what I mean what about lately

all the young Lads yeah they've been

running the markad in but it is some of

the kids in GL but mostly out they

coming here to run a m been running a

mar here like every follows from outside

look look even a look it's a tourist

attraction

now Asian tourist get they're jumping

they jumping off the buses from Tokyo to

get a to get a photo like Planet

Hollywood land

holy time yeah oh but so back back to

what you were saying it's but gle's

always been like that day it's like it's

it's seen as like like a center of the

people from around the suburbs they come

run a mon yeah yeah G's always been like

that like so everyone in Glade would you

stay here a lot of people from other

areas always come here and always run to

M why you know Glade just the the little

traction B it is right it is it is I was

saying that it's like it was it's like

little Center little culture

little sub cultural criminal Center this

is every house in GLE they're all the

same they're all blueprints of each

other I was telling them how nowadays

they are Heritage million dollar houses

turn right around but this is like this

is what a backyard looks like in

GLE and they all got like they see here

like an olden day toilet so that was

like the outdoor Dy like 100 years ago

you know but that's it pretty much

the pretty much every house we walk past

that's that's their backyard that's the

design back lanes are still hammered at

L for me being a young GLE boy gle's

known for so you say like stying cars

wrx's Ram raids bank robberies back in

the day it was hectic around here BR you

walk in the street you see Bas bro

throwing past boys and pulling up it was

crazy bro Glade was a crazy area like

back in the day when I was young growing

up they was going out buying rexies gdrs

evos but don't even have a license

they're going pumping up buying legit

cars still no license no still C Chasers

in the legit car legit you know but yeah

but that that was like and and I was

saying like Sydney wide that was like

known this GLE this tiny little suburb

in the inner city of Sydney in near

darling harbar the suburb is just

flooded with adays on the search ripping

rexies ripping whatever car they can

pumping up Robin jewelry stores Robin

Banks like this is not a sometimes thing

this is not like oh one day someone done

this every day this is like every if

you're not doing it you're a gr if if

wasn't doing it you wasn't blending any

you weren one of the everyone was making

own that's how it was back in the day

you can walk through a GLE like brother

me like that was what the older boys

doing I was only Young Brother what I

was doing brother like I was only

walking through and breaking in the cars

but you break into a car you get 10

grand out of a car you get Lappy get La

go sell that for 2 Grand you know what I

mean big bundles out of cars there was

bundles back the day just by breaking

into the car you the old GL they just

call it Glass City BR cuz there's

nothing from about smash window ground

there was no cars there cuz they all

gone what he's saying there he like they

actually here Ary rocks L see these

rocks here I'll give you a little

scientific explanation so under nearly

every tree in the city GLE doesn't

matter s Hills Wu darling Hurst even the

rich areas right for some reason the

government went and put these rocks

right under every tree a rock this big

brother it's like denser than glass

right so if you throw a little Pebble

like this at a car window it's silently

bust the car window right so we call

them Ary rocks the word comes from spark

plug because like back in the days you

know like the spark plugs the white

ceramic on the spark plug if you get

that white ceramic around the spark plug

off it's essentially the same thing as

this you throw a little Pebble at it and

burst the car window but these do the

same thing so we'll walk around nothing

in our pockets no nothing just with a

torch when you see something in a car

you get one of these little rocks from

any tree doesn't matter look they're

everywhere you pick up a little f like

this bar bar the car window pops so what

he's saying is like the windows shutter

so why he's saying Glass City is because

like you'll walk down the street

everywhere's just old windows he yeah

you walk in a street the whole street

will be on the gutter just all smashed

windows but there's no cars here

so you know like half the M you know

everything everywhere glass everywhere

glass everywhere it's all why they even

boarding houses up here hey

doing what holy C what by satellite into

the

wood tell them about

gleed close

second that's a friendly rivalry he's

not like he's just saying you know what

I mean it's friendly

rivalry 2024 these are Lanes every lane

look let's walk through

here he you know it's housing yep

housing don't fix our fences they don't

fix nothing I I've had two home inv

6 right over the fence they told me I

was being a princess cuz I wanted my

fence built up to the height of the

people next door and at the back you you

got home invaded twice three bles on Ice

the second time I was all over the

television the next day my k Mark

dressing gown I was 73 when that

happened oh that's horrible but they

wouldn't build my fence up they made a

mistake they wanted the dealers who live

a bit further up wrong house people are

nice you know but this is housing I'm

really old now I'm nearly 79 but we've

really old people around here they have

been blessed them with bits of string

and everything fixing their fences

they're frightened and now all this

shit's happened with all the knives and

everything I've lived in Glee 37 years

we always knew it was going on I'm an

admin on the Glee locals website on

Facebook and you get idiots going who

live in private rental Deport how can

you Deport anyone let alone First Nation

what suspend their housing yeah are you

serious you cannot suspend somebody's

house people my bedroom I promise I'll

it chatting up a good-looking salort

mate when you're my age that's what you

do stop it the first one I died that was

schizophrenia and mental mental health

unattended drug f as well opposite just

had a moment well known to still begging

on the streets we went from 25 years

attempted murder she did 6 months 3 days

in Mal which is now called Silver it was

a female yeah Street girl yeah Street

girl she still begs around I'm homeless

not excuse me you live in s Hills mate

you've got housing she didn't turn up

for sentencing three times and they went

oh poor thing yeah yeah I get it I get

it yeah our government how our law

system is now is the perpetrators have

the court case and the victims are just

bystanders the judge read my

statement out and then he read it out

loud twice and went oh isn't that

terrible she's got brain damage she

can't remember faces now she's got this

and this and I don't know people I've

known for 30 years all the brain damage

isn't that terrible yeah and yet he

still let her off do you know what she

ended up with a 2-year Community

convictions order that's crazy and she

broke baale at least eight times czy and

I said cuz she wasn't allowed in GLE and

I said to the police why are you letting

her in GLE and they said you want the

truth and I went well that would be nice

and unusual I did they said because

we're sick of being veral spatter or get

a life you've got a uniform which says

protect and serve you're not protecting

me and you're not serving me I'm sorry

that happened to you too like especially

the lads like trying to look for the

drug dealer up the street ran through

her house yeah sorry about they thought

it was um a drug dealers house put a

knife to her throat and everything

people AR on Ice AR very

Bri going have to put their lights out

what's your name Mara I'm a Survivor

right see all of us oldies are we're

tough in

GLE we're tough too young where do you

come from GLE bab are born look here on

my test oh good on your wish day would I

know your mom or grandma n probably not

what street a down street I used to live

in Street when I was young do well I

started off in Mount Vernon then I came

down I was in El Street then we went

it was in years ago the new when it

was wasn't that beautiful I used to

walking yeah look at that [ __ ] yeah yeah

yeah I I loved it before they built it

because it was all that Wasteland with

puddles and all the the bin chickens I

never call them that the lovely Ibis all

the birds when they had the best time

kids used to go in there and do what

kids did before Ai and everything else

to go jump puddles money

you did that yeah I'll done it I'll done

it don't worry have a good day we will

we will see you have a great day look

look why you every doing Tombo

tomb everything got his name before

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bro look that's just the first person to

come out and talk like I'm not here to

Chuck your verbals and pretend that this

is a bad place because one I'm biased

and I'm from Sydney City or two I'm just

trying to say it's bad so I can get

views or whatever that's the average

person here and even the mentality

that's a 79 year-old white lady from GLE

he's saying he's from the old Elga

Street Flats Trappist of the Trappist

and now it's all brand new apartments

and did you hear her she even goes oh it

was beautiful back then I loved it and

now it's all yuck they got all those

yuck buildings that's the mentality of

people from here like they love and they

thrive in that old Housing Commission

style the realness and all of those

brand new apartments yeah full of like

students and that it's disgusting and I

know that sounds weird to you but that's

cuz you lived your life and you didn't

grow up around the G true yeah that's

him my

brother yeah brother every lane look

what are you talking about lad jail

training next Lane is Jail jail

training tbo's di wonder why

TB we found out why it's tbo's Lane Jo

trying and you

know but every lane is I didn't even I

didn't even know it was like this bad in

the lane still dep parching up bar it's

a bit unstable and rusted out I might

not have a go of

it breing there a few different types of

housing here in GLE so there's like

these ones too these red brick ones like

bigger and is this this the most common

one like I told you before these are the

type that have the dunny at the back

there's a lot of those two those types

too so we're back on mitro street now I

remember when I was young or like when I

went to GLE High about say 14 I remember

mitro Street was like the ill chased

spot like a lot of this is where the

boys would hang this was maybe one of

the streets at the top two West Morland

but Mitchell Street in my memory was the

street like if you if you weren't one of

the boys and you walk through you're

getting pressed you're getting bashed

you're getting jumped you know what I

mean heaps of the heaps of the boys here

the boys used to hang in we used to call

them the corner boys BR so they'll be up

here Mitch Street Corner boys and then

you had the other boys that were down

Bay Street next to the roundabout

down Broadway then you had boys at the

top ofch Lads that had a couple boys at

Street you know but always been

Multicultural but this is all yeah I was

going to say that I was going to say

that black lot of CES right maybe I'd

say majority but also a lot of Islanders

and a couple of Leo families and Turkish

families too what's going on in this one

permanent yard

sale that's that's actually the one

that's that's legitimately the jail

sandwich press W look that's him same

same model same brand Sunbeam this was

the good one if you had the one with the

little

triangles yeah this the proper one

that's when you know you got this is the

good lad you walk in like like Gord

Ramsey sell if you got that in there

true bro that's all day you see another

mural the post code on it you can see

the the people here are very proud of

where they're from every murals you see

here it's all the post code you know

what I mean tjb the glay boys kjj the

GLA

girls I don't know what jys is GL

service oh GLA service all right

mad these are the most miserable ones

bro when I always see the houses in GLE

these are the ones that I look at and I

think there that's some miserable houses

mate I don't know anyone that's ever

lived in them I've never walked up the

side I feel like these are like

disability ones bro because like see all

the handlebars and that sort of like

disability housing so you can see like

it's all like disability bars in

that can't really say much it's too

bushy you can't see in the backyard on

nothing this Pub is Iconic prob know I

mean this this is a famous pub in in

Sydney everyone remembers no names you

know me in Sydney this where no names

was about so no names restaurant was

here off

do everyone famous used to come to this

PB friend GL blade and when you go in

there be fathers of I know if they might

be in there now but he follow all the

famous people he's coming all over the

world let guy walk in there so he's all

the the new Flats we're going to go up

here to the left and there's a lot of um

lot of them still left but only like two

streets it used to be the whole way

down so this is like yeah like you was

saying Center a g this was the p

l but changed culturally and

aesthetically a few times

the that's the

say don't tell me they got