Boy George reports for NYC trash duty

AP via Yahoo! ^ | 08/14/2006 | SAMANTHA GROSS

[Stoat]

EVEN MORE on this essential topic....

The Sun Online - News Boy George's brush-off

Binman ... Boy George

BREAKING NEWS

Boy George's brush-off

By SUN ONLINE REPORTER

BOY George's stint as a street cleaner in Manhattan lasted just 30 minutes today after a media scrum erupted.

The musician - real name George O’Dowd  - was put to work with gloves, shovel, broom and plastic bags but was swiftly surrounded by a crowd of photographers and reporters.

He was returned to the New York sanitation department’s garage on 'safety grounds' and was seen sweeping an area behind a fence.

The former Culture Club frontman, 45, was beginning a five-day stint of community service after his arrest last October.

At the time, he had called police following an incident at his home. But cops arrested the star after finding cocaine in his apartment.

He later pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of wasting police time.

Earlier, he unleashed an angry rant at reporters, at one point
sweeping a pile of leaves angrily towards cameras.

Asked if he thought his punishment was unfair, he replied: "It’s not unfair. It’s just impractical having you f****** chasing me around.
F*** off. Go away."
 

O’Dowd also told reporters asking whether he was troubled by the menial nature of his task: "My mum was a cleaner, my dad was a builder, know what I mean?"
 

After a convoy of cars chased the singer around the streets of Chinatown, O’Dowd was returned to the safety of the depot.
 

Sanitation department deputy chief Albert Durrell said he had taken the singer off the streets because he was concerned for everyone’s safety.
 

Instead, he said, O'Dowd would spend the rest of his eight hour shift and possibly the rest of the week working at the garage.
 

"He’ll be hand sweeping the area along the fence," Mr Durrell added.
 

[2dogjoe]

Hey, he has Hillary's fat ankles!

[Stoat]

Hey, he has Hillary's fat ankles!

I guess that continually bending over to grab them isn't very good exercise, for him at least.

[Tzimisce]

See Boy George in "The Crying Game".....

[BJClinton]

With all that's going on in the world, this makes news??

Sometimes you gotta step back from the death and destruction and laugh at the little things.

[BJClinton]

That is just priceless.

[Screamname]

From packing doody to picking up doody. Oh myyyyy!

[Screamname]

I tell you, I think that`s the only way these stars get busted, if they call the cops on themselves. How Whitney Houston for example is still walking around without one single solitary bust is beyond me. There is no way in hell this girl isn`t on some kind of hard drug, whether it be crack, heroin or meth, yet she just cannot get busted!

[Paulus]

Give the guy a break! He did the crime and now he is doing the time. I have to kinda hand it to him. Having a group of photographers running around while your serving out your sentence would make me testy, to say the least. Looks like he took it all in stride. I say good on him.

[Screamname]

Hillary would have been better...

[Owen]

You know, you're right. He showed up. He picked up a broom. He paid his debt to society. And not with AIDS benefits or other "punishment" that lets him bask in some aura of elevation. This is basic manual work he's agreed to do and I think he gets a check mark for this.

[Screamname]

Yeah you`re right... I mean how many stars have been busted, yet you never see them do this. They always get some wrist slap sentence. Look at Winona Ryder...She had to serve at an old age home, which probably just means talking to old people. Oh! The horror! Half these Hollywood a-holes would kill themseleves before sweeping the streets, yet BG is doing it. Hillary is one who should be doing that for the next 5000 years.

[Screamname]

I don`t get this....He smokes....

Then wears a mask to protect his lungs....

[Minutemen]

I thought he belonged to England?

[eleni121]

I can't believe what a light sentence he got! I know people who are rotting way for years for what this scum did.

[pollyannaish]

Goodness.

I don't really care about this guy at all. He's a lot of fluff musically and personally.

But there are times when the paparazzi needs to just be kept away. This kind of punishment would be a lot more effective if they didn't get to keep their celebrity status and entourage.