As soon as the weekend rolls around, our beloved Lower East Side transforms from a delightfully eclectic, easily navigable neighborhood into a grotesque, vomit-flecked parade of sub-humanity. We've seen gals pop squats next to al fresco diners, been offered cocaine out of a plastic lunchbox, and seen punches thrown in the falafel line. What surprises us in a video that Bowery Boogie filmed of a drunk, shirtless woman (she keeps her bra) isn't the way she's acting but the restraint of the NYPD to not flip their Tasers to "Bridge & Tunnel Strength."
Two mounted police officers (whose shit continues to keep us safe) look mutely at this intoxicated woman as she can barely keep her balance on Ludlow Street between Rivington and Delancey. She tries to pet the horse but it rears its head in disgust, and the lady is left to play tug of war with a man holding her clutch until she spills its contents all over the pavement. In the background, a man shouts "Hey get off your horse and do something! You gotta horse! It's worthless!" presumably before he hops into a cab and furtively recites a Rosary on the ride to the Girls and Boys club for some late night tutoring.
So what does it take to get arrested in the LES these days? Should we get our own horses and challenge these guys to a joust?
