Key West Cops Rock

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On Key West's bustling Duval Street, drag queens and go-go boys can be found standing in front of gay bars handing out fliers and posing for photos, more often that not with highly amused straight tourists. It's a hectic, high-energy scene on those sidewalks, where gays and straights move comfortably among each other. Gay boys cat-call straight boys, straight couples cat-call drag queens - it's all rather other-worldly.

It's therefore rather worth mentioning one small incident we witnessed in which two very intoxicated men yelled something derogatory at a couple of drag performers we were chatting with outside of one of the clubs. I didn't hear the actual words, just their tone, so I've got no idea if the insult was anti-gay, anti-drag, or even anti-fat, as the two queens were of the larger variety.

The above-pictured cop, who was just a few feet away undergoing a photo op of his own, immediately barked a command to his horse, who took several sideways steps and trapped the two jerks against the wall of the building next door. It was the coolest trick ever, prompting a passing woman to exclaim, "Wow! Is that horse from the circus?" The crowd loved it. And what would have been the only bit of ugliness we saw during the entire trip was instead turned into something of a highlight.

RELATED: One-third of Key West's police force is openly gay, including the above cop and their chief of police.
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/

Heh!

[TexasObserver]

1. Recommend

[Toasterlad]

2. I Fucking LOVE This Story.

Love, love, LOVE it when homophobes get a taste of their own medicine.

[MineralMan]

3. How bright could these morons be?

"Hey, let's go down to Key West and bait some f*gs..."

Uff da! Nice horsey!

[Tim01]

4. Awsome. recomened. nt

[Heidi]

5. Recommended.

:kick:

[Luminous Animal]

6. Love the cop's intentions.

Hate the tactics.

Horses should not be used on regular patrol and definitely should not be used to intimidate.

[Vidar]

7. Very cool.

[eridani]

8. Bet they'd like the Arcata, CA police log

http://www.arcataeye.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&tid=2&topic=7

Dumpster’s gravitational attraction captures spacey assemblage – September 30, 2009
9:29 p.m. A traveler in a hoodie at 10th and J streets apparently lacked the basic street smarts to know that you can’t swig beers on the sidewalk. When police made him pour it our, he wailed as though he’d lost his best friend, and maybe he had.



Territorial incursion unleashes curses, oaths, apples – September 23, 2009
Saturday, September 5 1:23 a.m.
Things were not going so well
For a guest at a Plaza hotel
As bar closure loomed
The sidewalks went boom
With drums from insomniac hell

[JTFrog]

9. Too late to rec, but here's a kick. n/t

[B Calm]

10. Where's his radar gun?