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Boy George reports for NYC trash duty
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| 08/14/2006
| SAMANTHA GROSS
Posted on 08/14/2006 9:43:41 AM PDT by BJClinton
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To: BJClinton
EVEN MORE on this essential topic....
The Sun Online - News Boy George's brush-off
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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 ODowd - 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 departments 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: "Its not unfair. Its just impractical having you f****** chasing me around. F*** off. Go away." ODowd 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, ODowd 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 everyones 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. "Hell be hand sweeping the area along the fence," Mr Durrell added. |
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posted on
08/14/2006 10:57:34 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
Hey, he has Hillary's fat ankles!
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posted on
08/14/2006 11:34:25 AM PDT
by
2dogjoe
(Have a Blessed Day)
To: 2dogjoe
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.
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posted on
08/14/2006 11:38:52 AM PDT
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: BJClinton
See Boy George in "The Crying Game".....
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posted on
08/14/2006 11:47:22 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
To: DTogo
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.
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posted on
08/14/2006 12:06:21 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
To: Stoat
That is just priceless.
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posted on
08/14/2006 12:07:45 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
To: BJClinton
From packing doody to picking up doody. Oh myyyyy!
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posted on
08/14/2006 12:35:58 PM PDT
by
Screamname
(Batman and Godzilla : When will they fight?)
To: KarlInOhio
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!
![](http://www.forwardtimes.com/images/Whitney-on-crack.gif)
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posted on
08/14/2006 12:41:08 PM PDT
by
Screamname
(Batman and Godzilla : When will they fight?)
To: Screamname
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.
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posted on
08/14/2006 12:50:10 PM PDT
by
Paulus
To: BJClinton
Hillary would have been better...
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posted on
08/14/2006 12:54:05 PM PDT
by
Screamname
(Batman and Godzilla : When will they fight?)
To: Paulus
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.
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posted on
08/14/2006 1:01:16 PM PDT
by
Owen
To: Paulus
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.
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posted on
08/14/2006 1:03:25 PM PDT
by
Screamname
(Batman and Godzilla : When will they fight?)
To: Stoat
I don`t get this....He smokes....
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Then wears a mask to protect his lungs....
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posted on
08/14/2006 1:07:05 PM PDT
by
Screamname
(Batman and Godzilla : When will they fight?)
To: BJClinton
I thought he belonged to England?
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posted on
08/14/2006 1:10:51 PM PDT
by
Minutemen
("It's a Religion of Peace")
To: BJClinton
I can't believe what a light sentence he got! I know people who are rotting way for years for what this scum did.
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posted on
08/14/2006 5:04:22 PM PDT
by
eleni121
(General Draza Mihailovich: We will never forget you - the hero of World War Two)
To: BJClinton
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.
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