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Incase you missed it, yesterday we ran a post about a standoff at the Alamo between a group of kids with chalk and the cops. The story was pretty simple: Saturday afternoon a number of kids decided it would be fun to chalk up Tony Rosenthal's recently returned sculpture the Alamo, often referred to as simply the Cube. The kids, some of whom apparently had just finished their SATs, chalked away to their hearts content and were joined in by passersby. All was merry untill the police showed up and started arresting the chalkers and then some of the folks who were chanting in support of the chalkers (see Adam's photo above).
When we initially relayed the story we quoted one of our tippers who said that "It turns out those girls had heroin on them. A large ball of it. Not just heroin, a freaking ball of it. It's possible that it was planted, though."
Today we got an e-mail from one of the girls in question who wants to clarify a bit what happened:
My friend and I were arrested on Saturday for chanting for our friends (who were being arrested at the time), and we never had any heroin on us... EVER. In fact, there weren't any drugs in our bags or in our pockets. I don't know who started this rumor, but I would really like it if it was dispersed. We would never in our lives do heroin, let alone carry a 'ball' of it around.P.S. We've been jailed, tried, and the case was dismissed. I don't know about the other three guys, and a girl. Though I do know that a fellow chanter, who is a 23 year old male, has been released with a court summon.
So there you have it folks. The girls didn't have any horse, but they were jailed and their case was eventually dismissed. Everybody clear now? Good, let's move on.
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anybody stupid enough to get arrested for CHALKING is a walking douche and must be cleansed from this planet. I mean getting arrested for Jaywalking is pretty idiotic but to have your picture taken in the middle of astor place and be humiliated and put on flickr and gothamist for putting washable graphite is sooo LAME!! again, thanx for the laugh.
I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet silly talk
You can all go take a walk...oh, never mind
file a complaint:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ccrb/
sue for wrongful arrest.
at least we can rest easy knowing that the writers of gothamist will never be mistaken for actual journalists; although mistaking rumor and gossip for truth may support you in a run at the tabloids.
I hope there's a death penalty for chalking.
"P.S. We've been jailed, tried, and the case was dismissed."
Yeah, there's no way they were tried already. Query as to whether this email is a complete fraud or not. I won't impugn Gothamist's journalistic intergrity, since it's not a newspaper. It's a liberal rag blog, written by a loose collection of writers. But yeah,
More accurately, they probably had a hearing (Night court, mayhaps) and not a wholesale trial.
ROR
if the rain doesn't cleanse the cube, i will.
"It's a liberal rag blog,"
Interesting judgment, I wonder what it's based on. Considering that I've seen a lefty and righty stories on this site that I disagree with on both fronts, I wonder what you think tips the scales to make this blog 'liberal'. Can't be because it's co-run by an Asian, the rise of Michelle Malkin disproves that notion. So why is this blog liberal?
aight, so what happened was we got to court between 20-26 hours after being arrested, the heroin was maple sugar candy, and the case got dismissed for six months at the end of which time if we do not get arrested our records are clean. the chanters got out early; i, one of the chalkers, went to court with the other three, and the judge was like, wtf, you kids shouldn't be here, out of my face.
ah, the good old 6 month ACD. gotta love NYC. the only place where you can get away with petty shit by getting ACD's. smoke a blunt? no problem, ACD!
What's up with this guy Simon who keeps posting pictures of himself and stupid bits of misinformation about heroin, etc.? Seriously, has anyone looked at his flickr pics and posts? What a douchebag - I for one whould like to give him a swift kick to the nuts.