Want jail time? Put up flyers!
NYC’s police officers mean serious business. Watch as they take down highly threatening 8-Bit musicians. I feel much safer now:
bq. 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 an unique opportunity to set Bit Shifter’s AIM away message to “I’m in jail.”
Jail time: it’s a Kodak moment.
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That is so not cool man. Not cool. Very scary. Jail for putting up flyers? What the fuck man?
Comment by Honey — 10/21/2005 @ 8:21 pm
Chiptune Resistance
7PM The Tank @ Chashama 208 West 37th Street Low-bit secret agents from around the world convene at The Tank for an unprecedented micromusic mega-event. Kids have GONE TO JAIL for this event You should go… Sounds and setups built around the focal poi…
Trackback by whatsupnyc — 10/22/2005 @ 7:58 am
8 Bit Musicians Jailed for Hanging Flyers
“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 saf…
Trackback by brooklynvegan — 10/23/2005 @ 3:26 pm
my question is, “where was he keeping the phone that the police didn’t find it during a frisk & emptying of pockets?”
Comment by mokin — 10/24/2005 @ 6:50 am