Have you ever thrown a beer in a Cop's face...and lived to tell the story??
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So today, July 4th is my 29th birthday and I thought I would share my NYC Pearl Jam adventure before I head out to catch some fireworks.
So my plane from Phoenix landed in La Guardia around 7pm, so I decided I wanted to pick up a unlimited Metro card and figure out how all the locals travel NYC. I took the M60 bus across the Triborough Bridge into Harlem. Then jumped on the green line subway to Grand Central Station which was close to the Big Apple Hostel where I was going to stay for my first night in NYC before moving to the Hotel Penn for my last 2 night in NYC. I dropped my bags at the hostel and headed out to walk Times Square and check out the streets of New York. I headed back to my hostel about 1am and when I returned I met 2 Russian students who I was sharing the room with who also had just landed from Moscow. They strolled into our room each holding a 12 pack of Bud Light cans. They did not speak English and were pounding the beers fast and speaking in Russian to each other. They offered me a beer a few times, but initially I passed. Funny thing was the more they drank the better they spoke English. Then Anton, tells me in his broken English "Don't be a little bitch...now drink!" At that point I had to indulge. So 5 beers later it is about 2:30am and we finished all the beer so we walked to a store a bought 2 more 6 packs of the Coors Light Tall cans. We were sitting in the back patio of the hostel teaching each other bad words in Russian and English when the dude at the front desk said he needed to clean the patio and asked us to go out to the front porch on 45th Ave to finish our beer and smoke. I thought nothing of it and we relocated to the front porch of the hostel. We continued out curse word lessons when I got a tap on my shoulder and I hear "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" I turned around to see it was 4 NYC Cops in full uniform. I nearly shat myself. Here is what followed:
Cops: "What the fuck do you think you are doing?"
Me: "The guy at the front desk told us to come out here to finish our beers."
Cop: "So if he told to you climb to the top of the fucking Empire State building and jump would you do that too?"
Me: "Well, of course not."
Cop: "Where are you from?"
Me: "Arizona"
Cop: "Can you drink on the streets in Arizona?"
Me: "No officer"
Cop: "Well what makes you think you can come to the great state of New York and drink on my fucking streets?(In his level 10 I have been possessed by Satan voice)
Me: "Uh...Uh...Uh (Squeezing my check together so I don't shit myself because I think I am about to go to jail) I don't know officer I realize I made a mistake...(Then the unthinkable happens.....The full Tall can that I have in my hand as this officer is grilling me slips out of my hand and falls to the ground...upon impact the beer shoots straight up like a volcanic eruption all over all 4 of the cops!!! The one who is grilling me in my face gets the worst of it and flips his fucking lid as the beer drips from his shiny silver badge!!!
Cop: "You stupid mother fucker! I am going to fuck your ass up! (He throws his police hat to the ground and starts to reach at his belt. I thought I was going to get tased or something. He grabs the collar of my shirt tightly and said "Give me your fucking ID you stupid mother fucker!"
Me: "Oh my god, Oh my god, Oh my god please don't hurt me. I did not mean for that to happen" I handed him my ID.
Cop: "Shut your fucking mouth! How long have you been in New York Anthony?
Me: "About 6 hours sir"
Cop: "When do you plan on leaving?"
Me: "Thursday morning"
Cop: "You have 20 hours to get your stupid ass out of the city of New York, do you understand me?"
Me: "Yes Sir!" (While thinking in the back of my head that there is no way I can miss two nights at MSG! I complied in hopes that I was not going to be taken to jail.
Cop: "Do you know what assault is?"
Me: "Yes Sir"
Cop: "You are lucky that we aren't taking you to jail! (He throws my ID at my chest and the 4 NYC officers walked away towards Times Square.
After the incident was over, the Russian guy says "You don't get beat up by the cops here in America? Which is apparently the norm where they are from in Russia. I could not believe that that happened to me considering that I rarely drink at all and I have never had any run in with a cop before. Thankfully the 2 PJ shows at MSG where amongst the best that I have seen in the 30+ shows I have attended. Big thanks to the 10Club for hooking me up with tickets in Section 74 Row C for both nights. It was something special to sit next to Jill and Olivia Vedder both night and witness the interaction between Ed and his daughter as she rocks out hard to the PJ Jams and sings along doing baby head banging in her pink headphones. At a few points I was getting pretty wild during the shows and little Olivia was staring at me like I was crazy. Once I stopped dancing and noticed her she stared to imitate me and that was the start of our dance off at MSG 2! After all was said and done I think she won the dance off since that little girl that some crazy energy for a 4 year old. Just like her Daddy! Well I will stop this wild story and head off to see the Arizona sky get lit up with some fireworks. Cheers to all who take the time to read this crazy story of mine!
So my plane from Phoenix landed in La Guardia around 7pm, so I decided I wanted to pick up a unlimited Metro card and figure out how all the locals travel NYC. I took the M60 bus across the Triborough Bridge into Harlem. Then jumped on the green line subway to Grand Central Station which was close to the Big Apple Hostel where I was going to stay for my first night in NYC before moving to the Hotel Penn for my last 2 night in NYC. I dropped my bags at the hostel and headed out to walk Times Square and check out the streets of New York. I headed back to my hostel about 1am and when I returned I met 2 Russian students who I was sharing the room with who also had just landed from Moscow. They strolled into our room each holding a 12 pack of Bud Light cans. They did not speak English and were pounding the beers fast and speaking in Russian to each other. They offered me a beer a few times, but initially I passed. Funny thing was the more they drank the better they spoke English. Then Anton, tells me in his broken English "Don't be a little bitch...now drink!" At that point I had to indulge. So 5 beers later it is about 2:30am and we finished all the beer so we walked to a store a bought 2 more 6 packs of the Coors Light Tall cans. We were sitting in the back patio of the hostel teaching each other bad words in Russian and English when the dude at the front desk said he needed to clean the patio and asked us to go out to the front porch on 45th Ave to finish our beer and smoke. I thought nothing of it and we relocated to the front porch of the hostel. We continued out curse word lessons when I got a tap on my shoulder and I hear "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" I turned around to see it was 4 NYC Cops in full uniform. I nearly shat myself. Here is what followed:
Cops: "What the fuck do you think you are doing?"
Me: "The guy at the front desk told us to come out here to finish our beers."
Cop: "So if he told to you climb to the top of the fucking Empire State building and jump would you do that too?"
Me: "Well, of course not."
Cop: "Where are you from?"
Me: "Arizona"
Cop: "Can you drink on the streets in Arizona?"
Me: "No officer"
Cop: "Well what makes you think you can come to the great state of New York and drink on my fucking streets?(In his level 10 I have been possessed by Satan voice)
Me: "Uh...Uh...Uh (Squeezing my check together so I don't shit myself because I think I am about to go to jail) I don't know officer I realize I made a mistake...(Then the unthinkable happens.....The full Tall can that I have in my hand as this officer is grilling me slips out of my hand and falls to the ground...upon impact the beer shoots straight up like a volcanic eruption all over all 4 of the cops!!! The one who is grilling me in my face gets the worst of it and flips his fucking lid as the beer drips from his shiny silver badge!!!
Cop: "You stupid mother fucker! I am going to fuck your ass up! (He throws his police hat to the ground and starts to reach at his belt. I thought I was going to get tased or something. He grabs the collar of my shirt tightly and said "Give me your fucking ID you stupid mother fucker!"
Me: "Oh my god, Oh my god, Oh my god please don't hurt me. I did not mean for that to happen" I handed him my ID.
Cop: "Shut your fucking mouth! How long have you been in New York Anthony?
Me: "About 6 hours sir"
Cop: "When do you plan on leaving?"
Me: "Thursday morning"
Cop: "You have 20 hours to get your stupid ass out of the city of New York, do you understand me?"
Me: "Yes Sir!" (While thinking in the back of my head that there is no way I can miss two nights at MSG! I complied in hopes that I was not going to be taken to jail.
Cop: "Do you know what assault is?"
Me: "Yes Sir"
Cop: "You are lucky that we aren't taking you to jail! (He throws my ID at my chest and the 4 NYC officers walked away towards Times Square.
After the incident was over, the Russian guy says "You don't get beat up by the cops here in America? Which is apparently the norm where they are from in Russia. I could not believe that that happened to me considering that I rarely drink at all and I have never had any run in with a cop before. Thankfully the 2 PJ shows at MSG where amongst the best that I have seen in the 30+ shows I have attended. Big thanks to the 10Club for hooking me up with tickets in Section 74 Row C for both nights. It was something special to sit next to Jill and Olivia Vedder both night and witness the interaction between Ed and his daughter as she rocks out hard to the PJ Jams and sings along doing baby head banging in her pink headphones. At a few points I was getting pretty wild during the shows and little Olivia was staring at me like I was crazy. Once I stopped dancing and noticed her she stared to imitate me and that was the start of our dance off at MSG 2! After all was said and done I think she won the dance off since that little girl that some crazy energy for a 4 year old. Just like her Daddy! Well I will stop this wild story and head off to see the Arizona sky get lit up with some fireworks. Cheers to all who take the time to read this crazy story of mine!
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poor thing! Glad u got to go to the msg shows without any complications
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Nobody from Europe would ever drink Bud Light.
for the least they could possibly do
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alltho entertaining, your thread/stories title is a little misleading . :rolleyes:
Oh and as soon as you left the 4 cops eyeshot,..- no doubt the other 3 cops gave that 4tth guy hell !
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just like parents watching their kids' soccer games and recitals, it's their family and they want to see
The way things are, don't you think they showed restraint? They could have totally arrested that guy. Think of what was going on in Mansfield and Hartford - pepper spray, tickets taken away....these guys didn't do much except yell at the guy. Dude you are lucky!
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shouldnt have ran away and showed guilt.
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Good times...
Believe you me, it's not that common in Russia. I mean there some fucked up assholes in police here but still doesn't happen every day.
He won the lotteryyyyyyyy when he was booooorn...took his mothers white breast to his tooooooooongue!
Do no wrong...so clean cut...dirty's his hands it comes right oooooff.
Police Maaaaaaaaaaaaan! Police Maaaaaaaaaan!
Great story man!
LOL by no means is this story and I swear the Russians walking in with Bud Light and I know nothing about Russian police and was only repeating what was told to me by the Russian guy I was hanging with.
After seeing how much beer sprayed, if the roles were reversed I might have thrown my ass in jail. If I could apologize today I would since I know they work hard and being doused in beer is the last thing they deserve after protecting the people and tourist of NYC.
Big Shout out to Officer Percy of the NYCPD....thanks for not kicking my ass and arresting me! Good times in the NYC 2008!
1,2,3,4...what the fuck is this world....
Exactly... and for a ridiculously low amount of money too. NYC cops are some of the worst paid cops in the country. Did you see any any of those cops working around MSG or in Penn Station? That wasn't their lunch bags strapped to their legs... those were gas masks. People in my office complain if the AC is up too high and these guys have to go to work everyday with a gas mask strapped to their bodies.
You were TAILGATING on the street right outside of MSG? That is so funny - just can't imagine! Thanks for totally cracking me up this morning!
I should add I've had nothing but positive experiences with NYPD during my trips there (granted I don't drink, but still).
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Maybe if they acted more civilized and explained to you that booze was not allowed here or asked you to take it inside, you wouldn't have dropped your beer and sprayed them, so fault lies with them, why don't they go catch real criminals and leave harmless people alone. Sounds like a bunch of cluster fuck cops who think they are god, don't apologize unless you brought this on yourself purposely.
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Was this porch on the hostels property? You mean you can't drink beer on the porch because its in front of the building. How fucked up are america's laws.
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like you're supposed to be thankful for them not beating your ass over some bullshit? fuck that! fucking punk ass Gestapo!
Fuck that shit, cuz I ain't tha one
For a punk muthafucka with a badge and a gun
To be beatin on, and throwin in jail
We could go toe to toe in the middle of a cell
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i'm not saying there are no good cops but they seem to be few and far between.
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Good point. You are lucky. That cop just didn't want top bother arresting you. Would he rather be knee deep in a pile of paperwork for the next 6 hours, or just curse you out and make you feel like an asshole? I'd rather take the latter and be on my way too!
Some of my best friends are cops. You wouldn't believe the stories they tell me about the stuff they get away with.
Don't make people out to be saints just because they wear a uniform. Being a cop is no different than any other occupation, there are some good and some bad. I am sure the percentages are about the same...