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Brooklyn kickball team Los Pirates Mechanicos (pictured) are down one man as of yesterday; Lawrence Jackson (better known as Lance) was arrested for carrying around a rusty pirate sword (also pictured) in Macy's. Unsurprisingly, the NYPD took it for a weapon, not a recreational sports prop.
While the "Free Lance!" comments come in on the team's MySpace profile, the NY Post tosses around labels like "bonehead," "rabblerouser" and "kook" amongst their descriptives of the Greenpoint kickballer. Jackson was allegedly at Macy's shopping for eyeglasses with his 8-months pregnant girlfriend Teresa. The couple, who were planning to go to McCarren Park for a game post-Macy's, didn't expect any problems from carrying around the giant metal sword (surprisingly, no one had reacted to it on the subway system earlier that day).
Teresa told the paper, "It's metal, but it's a fake sword. It's not like he was going to hurt anyone." Meanwhile, the cops noted that the couple "didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He thought it was a toy. But it's not a toy. It's sharp." Reportedly Jackson frightened some shoppers, and the sword was heavy enough to make a loud noise when he dropped it.
As if being arrested for carrying around a sword meant for a kickball game wasn't enough, Jackson was also busted for marijuana possession and he has an outstanding pot warrant already! The Pirates have been known to smoke up while they play, something that's even alluded to in photos online. Kickballers take note, the Brooklyn Kickball page warns: "the pot you smoke could get ya busted. or Trouble."
UPDATE: The captain of the kickball team wrote in with the following comment.
We at Los Piratas Mechanicos (The Mechanical Pirates) ARRR like a family.We bring props, dress up like pirates, wear eyepatches and say ARRR all the time. We fly flags and throw water balloons. This is what we do. We ARRR the Pirates of Kickball. Lance has been an crucial part of this team for many years now. He was one of the first people to make me feel a part of the team I now lead. It is very unfortunate that Lance decided to take the sword and walk around with it in Macy's. The sword was actually supposed to be given to me as the official transference of captianship. So in a way I feel like it's partly my fault. We hope for his speedy release.
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typical brooklyn hipster troll bait gothamist story.
brooklyn is where douches can knock up girlfriends.
wait .. so you have a warrant out for your arrest, then you go to a public store with lots of people with a big metal blade and pot on you.
Bright Bulb.
Fake swords, pot possession and a pregnant girlfriend? Dude, your life is out of control. Find Jesus now, before you run out of money and can't get back to Ohio.
both comments have nailed it so far.
what kind of douche? a brooklyn hipster douche. shocking.
i hope he has been taught a new form of kickball, called "kick in the balls."
Another example of stupid people breeding.
Way to ruin it for everyone by announcing in public that people do drugs during their casual sporting events in the park.
i walked into mccarren last night, it disgusted me.
it was so sad how obvious it was that all the little white kids who move here from the midwest go there and feel so comfortable with all the hipsters playing kickball and sitting in little circles.
it looked like a hipster college campus.
i saw the sadness and waining for acceptance seeping out of their disgusting little bodies.
if you look at the post article you'll see that he was stopped because he was black.
I played kickball at maccarren park last summer. These people take this game way way way too seriously.
I also am amazed that they dress more or less like the hipsters of 6,7,8 years ago. Personally I thought it was cool back then. Now not so much. But that's probably because I'm not 21 anymore.
Pirates are so 2003.
Its true the pirates are a little ooc (and definitely not representative of the majority of the teams in the league), but the kickball league is superfun... as for sitting around and "waining for acceptance" - that seems rather harsh and a judgment thats WAY off. I mean we're just a bunch of people who like to play a silly sport in ridiculous uniforms on a sunday night while drinking some beer with our friends. I'm not from the midwest, and I'm not 21 (more like the other side of 25) - but its pretty fun to do something outdoors in the park with a lot of people before you have to start the work week back up again on Monday. Not quite sure why thats "disgusting"? Its weird to me that so many people find the league off-putting. I mean, does the Hasidic Softball league catch this much shit?
does the Hasidic Softball league catch this much shit?
Yes.
Wow moc, what's disgusting about looking for acceptance and comfort? It's the human condition.
I bet that these people aren't even ashamed that they got busted. They are probably bragging to all their friends how cool they are cause the NY post dissed their asses.
Yep, babyhitler, and of course now's the time to seize on the publicity and merch their shitty pirate logo onto fake cool t shirts that will clog the racks...where else? At Macy's.
what annoys me is their douchey pirate homage.
what's wrong with just girls in short shorts and knee socks?
I'm wondering when it's finally going to go out of style to be an elitist dbag on gothamist.
So, do you think Al Sharpton will show up for this one? This could be the case that disproves the rule, eh?
i bet: new york city is filled with significantly more elitist fuckheads from connecticut, massachusetts, jersey, upstate new york, vermont, new hampshire, virginia, maryland, italy, france, the united kingdom, germany, norway, etc. than from the whole damn u.s. midwest, a designation that says very little about culture and society, and only a little bit more about geography. but all that is beside the point when you consider that from a biological perspective every body is, in the end, a fucking loser.
I refer you all to exhibit A:
http://www.dieyuppiekickball.com
god bless em.
Thank you for that carn, but these self-absorbed proto-yuppie kickball leagues need just one thing: immediate reinstatement of the draft. Send them to Iraq and let them reform their little club in Fallujah. There's room to spare on that bridge for more hanging barbecue, get it? Human Barbecue!
Wow, so its wrong for a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s to want to spend time in the park with their friends playing kickball, soccer or frisbee.
Instead they should picknicking in central park to faux-gourmet food, joining an overpriced sports league at chelsea piers or antiquing in the suburbs?
And we're now judging people by the way they dress or the way they look? It's nice to know how much we've progressed as a society.
Give me a break. The real douchebags and self-absorbed assholes aren't the people socializing in the park, they're the people with no friends who spend their time online judging others.
The 'Pirate' was incredibly stupid for skipping out on a bench warrant - and for possession. As for the sword? It was called sharp by NYPD cops - the same institution that tends to shoot unarmed people 50 times in the back, or cover their cars with dozens of bullets -- as long as they're not white. I'm far beyond trusting anything from the NYPD anymore. If it was a white guy in a business suit, I wouldn't be surprised if they called that sword 'duller than a butter knife'.