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Here is a brief thread of some of the craziest things that happened to me in my years working outdoors in Times Square:
One time I cut down Shubert alley and ran into an EOD in full bomb squad gear on an empty street. There was a bomb threat and the cops had blocked off either end of the street but not Shubert.
I used to freestyle rap for a bus tour, me on the street, mic going into the bus. One time while rapping a man on drugs tried to fight me
One time I ran to catch the Ride. My microphone was sticking out of my back pocket. Police officers thought it was a gun and 10 officers swarmed me without me realizing I was the one they were swarming. They caught me and laughed when they saw it was a microphone
One time an officer tried to get my attention while I was performing. I couldn& #39;t hear because of my ear piece. He thought I was ignoring him and started to yell, he had his hand on his gun and his partner was calming him down. He issued me a citation for inciting a riot
One time a man who was drinking liquor from a bottle took my microphone and shouted out Two Chainz. It was Two Chainz. He was shouting out himself.
One time when I was hosting the ride, Steven Baldwin got out of his car in traffic to slap the side of the bus and wave. I found out later he did it as part of a promotional stunt for a failed competitor for Vine
One time I saw a drunk Elmo piss in his own Elmo hat
This isn& #39;t Times Square, but one time Anderson Cooper was on the ride, and they asked me to go on his show and surprise him from the audience with a rap, but our segment got bumped, so I just sat and watched an episode of Anderson Live. Howie Mandel was the guest
For those of you who don& #39;t know what the Ride is, it& #39;s a bus tour of New York with seats that face the side of the street, and performers are planted along the route to interact with the bus. I served as a host, a freestyle rapper, and "New Years Eve Guy"
New Years Eve guy celebrated New Years Eve in times square every day. @arturocastro85 used to do that job with me. We have since been equally successful
One time they were filming Bird Man and I didn& #39;t know and they blew up a cop car and I thought "oh shit" but did not stop eating my dollar pizza
One time I refused to buy a guy& #39;s cd and he called me a "noodle boy"
One time a really nice guy talked to me for 15 minutes, then asked if I wanted to buy e and I told him no and he got mad at me for wasting his time
