so I guess don't go to concerts in Houston? :|

[justa bill]

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/16/blogs_houston_police.html

i wonder who the band was...

[purdueman_in]

Wow. The actions of the police seem to be incredibly out of line...

[ThomasC]

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/16/blogs_houston_police.html

i wonder who the band was...
Looks like it was either Two Gallants, Langhorne Slim or Trainwreck Riders.

http://www.jambase.com/search.asp?eventID=457498

[jcarwash31]

FYI
http://www.woxy.com/boards/showthread.php?t=41859&highlight=chuck+norris

[Duemellon]

Uh oh, better not complain about the polices' excessive force, or they'll call for a work slowdown & let violent crime spiral out of control in your city & blame you!

But I guess that's good policing,...to someone out there...

[the_birds]

Just in case you out of towners don't know...

You never mess with the law in Houston. If the cops tell you to put down the guitar, you put down the guitar. Plain and simple.

Famous people arrested in Houston:

Snoop Dogg (marijuana)
James Worthy, LA Lakers (solicitation)
Ron Darling, NY Mets
Tim Teufel, NY Mets
Bob Ojeda, NY Mets
Rick Aguilera, NY Mets (fighting in a bar)
Scottie Pippen, Chicago Bulls (DWI)
Anna Nicole Smith, (DWI)

and lots more. Just most of it happened before the internet.

Cops say the show must not go on, then it most definitely must not go on. But what's going on in that neighborhood is gentrification. Washington Ave. used to be the predominate place to see live music in Houston, but now 300-400K urban homes are going up there and changing things. Where before nobody cared about loud music, bands are now keeping rich people awake.

[Dirk]

So you break the law in Houston and they will arrest you even if you're famous? And that is a bad thing? How dare they not allow Snoop Dogg to smoke his pot and Anna Nicole to drive drunk? What kind of savages run this town?

[justmaybetiger]

Just in case you out of towners don't know...

You never mess with the law in Houston. If the cops tell you to put down the guitar, you put down the guitar. Plain and simple.
It doesn't exactly excuse them of being righteous dicks. I mean what the fuck do they want from them? They're a rock band! Maybe the locals can tolerate it for one night. Who knows, they may get used to it, you know since you moved next to a place where music is regularly played...

[justa bill]

FYI
http://www.woxy.com/boards/showthread.php?t=41859&highlight=chuck+norris

why can't people pick thread names that at least kind of make sense and at least almost tell what the thread is actually about? :p :D :D

[markalot]

The guitar is a weapon of mass destruction.

[the_birds]

It doesn't exactly excuse them of being righteous dicks. I mean what the fuck do they want from them?

They're cops, by definition, they're self-righteous dicks.

[ajax]

why can't people pick thread names that at least kind of make sense and at least almost tell what the thread is actually about? :p :D :D
Um sorry bout that. I thought it was funny. Please forgive me. :)

[justa bill]

Um sorry bout that. I thought it was funny. Please forgive me. :)

yeah, it's a funny title... once you know what it's about. :D

i missed it though. i guess my associations with Chuck Norris are different than other people's. i think of bad karate movies when i think of Chuck... not Police movies or whatever. :]

is "two gallants" the band name? :D

[drougan]

Just in case you out of towners don't know...

You never mess with the law in Houston. If the cops tell you to put down the guitar, you put down the guitar. Plain and simple.

Cops say the show must not go on, then it most definitely must not go on. But what's going on in that neighborhood is gentrification. Washington Ave. used to be the predominate place to see live music in Houston, but now 300-400K urban homes are going up there and changing things. Where before nobody cared about loud music, bands are now keeping rich people awake.

Interesting perspective...it explains alot of the questions I had posed in the Music discussion thread about this same topic. Namely, why the hell the cop went up solo to confront the band without any back up and why the hell there was a noise complaint in the first place.