Possible Pedo charges against Phish bassist

New York Post ^ | 8/24/03 | Richard Johnson

[I_Love_My_Husband]

From gossiplist.com

Tuesday, August 19, 2003

The bassist from Phish was caught taking nude photos of a 9 year old child after a concert. Looks like he might be joining Scott Bairstow in jail!

Addendum (8/21/03).. there's more to the story according to Phish fans present during the incident..

'mike was giving everyone under the sun (from adults to kids) rides on his segway...silly lil scooter...the mother of the 9 yr old allowed this to happen...this "Secluded Boathouse", is neither secluded or a boathouse..there was two normal jones beach secuirty guards there...in case people wanna sneak into the show...(secret entrance)... mike was just taking pictures of the girl on his segway...not good judgment , but nothing to get crazy about... ...after ten minutes the girls mother starts freakin out..."were's my daughter"...(mind you the mother was induced with something, eyes bulging, lip biting..typical white trash mom)...mother calls her husband, a hells angel...ten minutes later there are 5 angels making there way through security...mike is confronted...grabbed by the throat and on his knees getting kicked at...the VIP security guards got in the middle and explained that mike was a celeb, and was a film maker...the funniest part is this...the angels wanted to break his segway, so the one security guard put it in his car and its been sitting in Wantagh for the last week and a half...after all of this the daughter explained nothing happened and that was that...long story short...bad judgment, unlucky for mike the girls dad was a druggy/hells angel, a quick rush to judgment, few kicks to the nizzuts,,,,"my bad"...move on...'

[I_Love_My_Husband]

[cake_crumb]

Don't mess with the kids of Hell's Angles. They're not into PC.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Thing from the gossip list has been edited from the other day. In it the poster (friend of band I assume), said that he had been videotaping the girl child for a long time and said "not good judgement" to doing that.

Throw the book at the SCUM! Book him! Jail the prevert!

[StockAyatollah]

Since the band, the "mom and dad", and the Phish fan "witnesses" were probably all stoned its impossible to determine what happened. But anybody caught riding a Segway should probably executed just for that.

[cake_crumb]

Clothed on a Segway is a far cry from nude in a boathouse. In the third account, he'll have been filming her while she sat on her father's shoulders to see the band or something.

[cake_crumb]

I think Segways are kinda cool. I wouldn't mind playing with one...but I agree, each account is gonna be SO different, we'll probably never get a clear picture of what happened.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Was the basic fact true? Was the idiot filming a nine year old whom he had enticed to strip naked? If so Death!

[TYVets]

"After heated debate, it was decided it would be "bad press to kill him."( I love this phrase, lol ) The DA is still deciding how to charge Gordon."

Hells Angels vs the local DA,,,, I will go with The Angels....

[cake_crumb]

"Hells Angels vs the local DA,,,, I will go with The Angels...."

Heheh...and neither story mentions the DA is considering whether or not to charge any of the Hell's Angles.

[IronJack]

A peculiar, paradoxical morality seems to pervade the Hell's Angels. While they may reject convention to a large degree, they share a rigid code of acceptable behavior, and straying over that boundary results in the quick application of bruises.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

mike was just taking pictures of the girl on his segway...not good judgment , but nothing to get crazy about... ...after ten minutes the girls mother starts freakin out.

I think this is the key. He was taking pictures of the girl for TEN minutes while on the segway. I assume the child was naked (hence the words "art pictures").

That is very creepy imho. Ten minutes is a long time. Plus the father wanted to kill the guy. The father obviously felt protective and angry. What good father wouldn't in that situation?

[I_Love_My_Husband]

ping

[garbanzo]

Where in the link does it say she was nude?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Statement: "But anybody caught riding a Segway should probably executed just for that."

Response: I think your temperment is too severe. One half day in the stocks, while nude,coupled with 25 lashes by a large muscular bailiff wielding a cat-o-nine tails would be sufficient.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

http://www.local6.com/news/2414796/detail.html

O'Donnell, who is the region's commanding officer, would not discuss what the bass player told officers when he was found with the child on a dock. But a police report obtained by WNBC-TV reveals "The defendant stated he wanted to take 'art photos' of the victim."

Oh.

Ick.

Icky.

Yuck.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

see post 16. I feel nauseous.

[prarie earth]

I doubt this clown will ever be able to feel his genital area again after the Hells Angels got through with him, and the cops didn't seem to mind.

[metalboy]

"Art" pictures...I guess that priest who was just killed in prison also did "art" massages on 130 boys...Maybe Michael jackson sleeping with boys is also "art sleep". I mean either your taking a picture of a kid or your not. What`s with this "art" crap?

[garbanzo]

That doesn't explictly say "nude", as your link suggests. I've read that story before and I was wondering if new info had been reported. That the pictures were "nude" is your spin and not something that's been definitively reported. Note that I'm not saying it wasn't nude or suggestive pictures but your the words you use were misleading.