'the buck fifty,' a deep gash along the jaw line.It's called that because it takes 150 stitches to close the cut

How to spot a gang member - NorthJersey.com: "Even veteran emergency room personnel were impressed by the photos of bloody street-gang knife wounds known as 'the buck fifty,' a deep gash along the jaw line.
A detail of a tattoo ON a Latin King gang member. ER workers at Englewood Hospital learned on Wednesday how to spot gang signs on patients who pass through the emergency room.
'It's called that because it takes 150 stitches to close the cut,' New Jersey parole officer Raymond Vonderheide told nurses, doctors, technicians and other staff today at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.

An appreciative murmur for 'the buck fifty' went up among the about 70 people who attended the conference on hospital security, including how to identify gang members by their tattoos, jewelry, caps, clothing colors, numerical codes, hand signals, graffiti, dance steps and scars."

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