Fun at the 9th Precinct!

Ever wonder what it's like to spend the day enjoying the hospitality of the NYPD? A couple of musicians got arrested this week for hanging posters and moblogged the whole thing:

While putting up flyers for the International Chiptune Resistance show at The Tank this coming Saturday, Nullsleep and Bit Shifter were approached by two plainclothes police officers, arrested, handcuffed, informed that "a cleaner New York is a safer New York," and taken to the NYPD 9th Precinct police station for processing and a nice stay in the NYPD's luxurious high-security accommodations. Stripped of belts and shoelaces (to prevent suicide by hanging), the police missed Bit Shifter's camera/web-phone, allowing exploitation of some irresistible photo-op moments, as well as a unique opportunity to set Bit Shifter's AIM away message to "I'm in jail."

Many more amusing pictures at Bitshifter. And check out the ICR's show tonight at the Tank-- 208 W37th Street at 7pm-- lots of beepy, clicking fun!

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By Jake Dobkin in Miscellaneous on October 22, 2005 11:34 AM

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johnny

yes, it is illegal to post anything on any private or public property. this includes sign posts, streetlights, even flyers on car windshields. the dept. of sanitation code book, page 6:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dsny/downloads/pdf/digestprint.pdf

however, it is listed as a finable offense, not a arrestable one. there is a seperate fine for each posting/flyer, and:

"there is a rebuttable presumption that the person whose name, telephone number, or other identifying information appears...is in violation."

i believe that would indeed implicate our mayor, not necessarily his workers, as well as about a million others like the nice people having the stoop sale down the block.

Bob

So would the NYPD arrest and jail any person's doing the same postering as people have been for Mayor Mike's re-election campaign? No one bothers to talk about this huh?