To SG: My recent "criminal" activity was brought up by ME. I'm not hiding from it. I wrote about it in a thread about "Have you ever been arrested" a couple months ago. Bornyo or James or Willie might take the time to search, but I'm not interest.

The note was an "update" to those following the events ... which was likely no one ... but that's never been a factor in my posting.


In April I had a altercation with a bus driver who said, when queried, that she stopped in Weehawken. She then drove on past it. When I tried to find out why she told me that she forgot this route doesn't stop there on that particular day and she forgot. Instead the 1st stop is about 5 miles away in the valley east and 100s of feet below the Palisades on which I live.

The next bus back was in about 4 hours [it was after 2AM]. I had no cash anyway and no ATM card on me. I had on my favorite dress shoes that now would be ruined.

But, what pissed me off was that she wouldn't give me back my ticket. She didn't perform the service. I wanted my ticket back. When she left me off in the middle of nowhere over an interstate, I took her plastic ID plack from it's holder and threw it down the embankment next to the exit ramp.

I then started my long uphill walk home.

Within 2 minutes I was surrounded by 3 police cars and charged at by the 3 policemen.

I was quite surprised since, for some unexplainable reason, I didn't think that anything was going to happen.

I admitted to doing the act and they tried to find the ID, but they wouldn't let me show them where I threw it. It was pitch dark and the weeds were 1-2 feet high. And, it wouldn't have mattered. She was filing a complaint anyway.

They had a tough time getting me in the car with handcuffs on since the cop who arrested me was another barrel shaped big boy. They would not let me lie down in the back and it was very hard to spin in the back seat with the cuffs on.

At the station they became angry at the bus driver when they caught her in 2 lies [they talked to her over radio - which is how the cops got there so quickly]. They were quite abusive. But, even I admitted that this did not mitigate my misbehavior.

The cops took a liking to me, rolled in laughter at my ID where my face is 95% blocked with hair and beard, enjoyed my sense of humor and I actually delayed my release - and their return to duty - while I recounted stories about the Dial-A-Mattress search warrant ... all the while cuffed to the floor.

I was surprised I was not fingerprinted or photographed. I did not have to post bail or anything. The lieutenant directed them to drive me "beyond the city limits" - which was their code for driving me home. So I was taken in a police car with another police car "escorting".

Since they did not have a good relationship with the Weehawken cops, they dropped me at the edge of Weehawken ... blocks closer than the bus would/should have.

They even gave the "stiff hand" wave when driving off.


Today with help from my attorney, I agreed to plead guilty to a disorderly persons violation and a fine.

The damn thing cost double with all the costs they added.