Tag Archives: police

Safer Biking In NYC

October 26, 2013 – 3:54 pm

Two nights ago I was bicycling up to the Williamsburg Bridge. A small crowd of bikers were gathered opposite the old Williamsburg Bank. I slowed down and spotted several city officials handing out night lights for bikes. Free. I got into line and a young man came up to me. “We’re from the DOT of […]

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Accidents Thai Style

May 24, 2012 – 4:13 pm

Pattaya’s roads are tattooed by spray-painted outlines of bodies and tires. Directional arrows indicate how the accident occurred without attributing blame to any of drivers. Many foreigners fear that they would always be at blame for a fender-bender, yet this shouldn’t be the case, if you follow a few rules of courtesy and patience during […]

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Fuck Ferrari

December 6, 2011 – 10:55 am

2008 started badly for me, when Thai cops raided my house in Pattaya with a warrant citing me with copyright infringement of Ferrari designed clothing. The investigators for the Italian sports car stood on the sidewalk, as the chief inspector from the Cyber-Crimes Unit in Bangkok approached me. His underlings had hands on their guns. […]

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In The Line Of Booty Duty

August 8, 2011 – 12:40 am

In 2008 Beaumont Texas had a problem with sex. Women were selling their bodies to men in bars and massage parlors. Faced with this wave of wantonness the Beaumont Police organized an undercover vice squad of dedicated men. Their job was to root out this evil from their Jesus-loving East Texas city. The volunteering officer […]

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Phillie Taser Tag

May 4, 2010 – 1:28 pm

The baseball movie FEVER PITCH reaches its climax with the heroine Drew Barrymore running across the field at Fenway Park to tell her Red Sox-obessed boyfriend that he should sell his season tickets. If she had attempted the same stunt in Phillie Stadium, her character might have suffered a worst fate than being hauled off […]

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