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You'd think San Francisco would be a very open minded city?????
Guess they draw the line somewhere.
San Fran has arrested the somewhat well known New York' Naked Cowboy.
Yes, he sings on the streets with a guitar and in nothing but his whitey tidies.
What a better place than San Francisco for him to perform at!
Unfortunately for the cowboy, Robert Burck, he got arrested while singing on Friday.
Burck was in his usual costume of underpants, cowboy boots and a hat.
He was arrested outside of Frisco's Union Square for performing his act in a restricted area.
The officers say he violated the rules posted in Union Square against soliciting. Burck and the cop argued before he was finally arrested.
He was cited for "violating a posted sign" and will need to go to court this week.
As for the cops, Burck says, "It was nonstop. They're laughing hysterically because there's this guy in his underwear. Then they were like, 'Oh, that's the Naked Cowboy.' "
Oh, well. He should have read the signs.
We're sure the boys in the Castro would have welcomed him with open arms!
[Image via WENN.]
eww first
1st????
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i love naked cowboy
chicago rep!!
Yuck
that guys effin nasty
This country now has more rules than freedoms…..
first!
"Whitey tidies"?? What planet were you born on? It's "tighty whities".
Gotta love San Francisco - this guy gets arrested but at the same time the city is giving sanctuary to illegal immigrants and allowing immigrant gang members to wander around and murder innocent American citizens. Nice city!
1st?
I had the pleasure of seeing him in April and to the polices credit, it wasn't pretty.
OHYEAH!
It's "tighty whities."
"whitey tidies"? Are those like tighty whiteys????
let's be honest, he's definitely hysterical. whats up san fran??
redundant much? haha.
FIRST!
ha ha.
SfirST
first
lalalalalala
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Perez - the term is "tighty whities" not whitey tidies.
lol ive met him b4 in times sq hes awesome!
he was back down there yesterday (Sunday). I was downtown with my friend and he was right by the Gap that's on market and powell.
2nd?
dude perez, i have a doodle too! his name is jack!
Second?
Isn't it "tighty whities"? And he's not really naked!
sad… I live in SF and didnt see him
first
He is a hottie. I got some pics from him the last time that I was in NYC. Hey buddy start to tour. NYC might be a little tired of you already. Perez got a good idea, come
to San Francisco, We'll tip you well here!
oh how laughable. HAHA.
I saw him…it was H I L A R I O U S!
fuk dat was so lame
im like 26th
Right on! Good thing he got arrested before getting beaten up or shot by any of the illegal immigrants being given safe sanctuary in SF.
Ive met this dude several times(Im from Nyc) and he's a nice guy, I feel bad! But its publicity for him!
Wow, they let illegal wet backs run around killing people and doing what ever they want but they arrest this guy? Damn, SF is pure shit.
no one from sf would ever say frisco. stop using that word, it makes you sound uncultured.
They've come to take him away, ha ha, hey hey…
Whitey TIGHTIES as in the they are tight. Not whitey tidies as in the ebb and flow and are influenced by the moon.
love you anyway
it's tighty whities
For serious…this dude is a CLOWN!
He's from Greenhills, Ohio which is where I'm from…
a couple months back
I was hanging out in a local bar in town, when I was approached by this slimy grease-choad. This dude was claiming to be naked cowboy's manager, like i was supposed to swoon.
He was wearing his cheap sunglasses in the bar, probably to cover up some of the greassyness of his face, and he was passing out buisness cards and glossy fliers with the naked cowboy on them….it was the tackiest thing EVER!!!!
TIGHTY WHITEYS
Ive taken a picture with him in New York!!
He must've been freezing! It's totally foggy and 58 degrees! Obviously a tourist. The cleaned up, no tolerance Union Square was not the best place for him… he would have been much better off in the Castro or at the Wharf.
So illegal immigrants crime is the only problem in your city? Morons you should go read a book or go back to school. This Naked Cowboy is like part of your culture and when the policemen are harassing him, it gives two signals. One, these policemen have nothing to do, and they need better way to deal with this kind of situation. If he was like those overweight policemen I see on TV I would rather see him walk around half naked.
You're talking about Edwin Ramos - he's an illegal immigrant and an alleged gang member whose accused of murdering three people - a father and two sons - a really sad story. They mayor of SF is in deep s*** over this one - he's set the city up as a safe sanctuary for illegals. I agree - kind of weird when this guy, whose only singing in his undies, gets arrested, but SF doesn't want to clamp down on illegal aliens.
*Somewhat* well known?? He's reaalllly well known, although looks a bit older than the last time I saw him. He shoulda stayed on the East Coast, here in the Big Apple!
Actually, it's city policy to only offer sanctury to illegal immigrants charged with felony drug charges.
Sure, this guy is weird, but as a US citizen he has no business being in SF.
I would be glad to strum his guitar any day!
I just saw that guy yesterday walking up Union St.
The Naked Cowboy was recently on People's Court with an issue with his girlfriend. It was quite funny to watch. They made him put on a long overcoat during the televised show. Apparantly he has a live 24/7 webcam going and she did not like it.
ummm whitey tighties?
Re: Peter – Is that you Michael Savage?
other matters aside, you guys dont know shit about sf: union square has always been like that, if he had stepped off the square he would be fine, it's common sense. i've seen "well-to-do" tourists get fined for doing shit like that or letting their kids skate there. he's obviously fine if he was at market and powell the next day.
Who cares???
Completely Gratuitous
Soliciting? Are you kidding me San Fran? I'm sure there's "homeless" people on a lot of your street corners SOLICITING (panhandling) & you leave them alone, but this guy was just doing what he does…singing in his undies, not even THINKING about making money & you arrest him?!?! 10-1 these cops just arrested him so that they could say they arrested the Naked Cowboy.
hes not in jail no longer. saw him this past sunday in union square.
That is because there is a fine line between tolerance and intolerance. Once you so so far with tolerance you become intolerant.
the term is "tighty whities" not "whitey tidies." but you are from miami so it's expected that you can't speak english, anyway.
Ha! I remember when this guy waited tables at a Friday's in Cincinnati back in the day. He used to walk around the place playing his guitar (fully clothed) and do summer festivals in his undies!
Hey fagboy lardass, it's either San Francisco or "The City"…Not "Frisco." I would expect a pole smoker like you to know that (since it's America's fag dick sucking capital).
This isn't really big news; NYC buskers get harassed and arrested often. The subway is the best place to ply your trade.
FRISCO? Arghhhh. Please don't use that term.
You can't be a real homo. Anybody that actually lives here would never call the place " Frisco ".
Now THOSE are some nice thighs! X the rest though.
So let me get this straight. This hotty in his undies gets arrested for singing in public and not hurting anybody. However, the same city has a policy that forbids authorities from turning over illegal immigrant felons to the federal government because it's a "sanctuary city"? On one hand, a guitarist in his ginch is deemed a criminal, but the same city protects illegal felons so they run free and murder innocent citizens? WTF is with that city??
I wonder how much this guy makes doing this for a living….
I live in San Francisco and I just saw him on Saturday. So apparently he went back to doing the same thing after he was arrested on friday.
Re: Ino – It's not just drug charges. The SF Juvenile Probation Dept. has a policy not to consider immigration status when dealing with an offender of any crime. The dept. does not turn over illegal immigrant felons to the federal government - been that way since SF proclaimed itself a sanctuary city in '89. Ask the widow of Tony Bolgna - she lost her husband and two sons - allegedly murdered by Edwin Ramos, an illegal juvenile criminal who has been shielded thanks to SF's law.
I deff met that guy when I was in New York.
he grabbed my friends ass.
ahahahaa plus he smells a bit !
Please don't call it Frisco…it is so annoying. That's one way to tell that you're not from here
haha, he's like my 4th cousin
kinda sad to admit but funny
Re: Mark – oh shut the fuck up you idiot. the post is about the naked cowboy for shits sake!
Re: LMAO – sounds like youre an ignorant piece of shit dude. think you have gotten chinks and hispanics mixed up because there are more illegal chinks there than "wetbacks" so shut the fuck up.
I saw him outside of the walgreens and downtown gamestop the other day when I was going to my parents place o.o
I saw him just yesterday too
bummerrrrrrr! i wish i could have seen him…i haven't been downtown in a while though. i was looking forward to seeing him in new york…i go in less than two weeks. bummerrrrrr!
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I am weary of the naked cowboy. Boring, stupid, not classy. It's good to have freedom, but it's just as wise to have some dignity. This guy has zero. I heard him on some fucked up talk show recently talking about his need for "double" underware so the peni doesn't show in the drawers. To avoid an indecency charge in NYC. After hearing that I was officially fucking done with his antics. After seeing him in Time Square, I decided he's someone to avoid.
Why does anyone pay any attention to this retard?
He's just a two-bit panhandler
YOU"RE ALL PATHETIC!
What the hell does illegal immigration have to do with the Naked Cowboy? All you anti-immigrant whackos - STFU!! No one cares what you think. Keep politics off of Perez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To bad he wasn't a hooker, flaming fag or illegal alien where he would have been welcomed with a parade and given red carpet treatment.
Perez!! You should know better! No one who is anyone calls San Francisco "Frisco" major faux pas, dude!
Re: norma – he already went to san francisco; that's where he was arrested!
He should have went to Fisherman's Warf, he would have made a fortune.
Ugh, not "Frisco" - that's a derogatory word for native San Franciscans.
Union Square is full of snobby rich people, and the assholes known as Sax Fifth Ave. It was probably them who called the cops. One time I gave a homeless man some change before going into Sax and I had the concierge butt wipe follow me all over the store. Boycott them! & go to Neiman Marcus where you are respected and treated good.
I live in NYC– this guy can't sing a decent note and can't play a whole song, he sits there in his underwear collecting money for his stupid gimmick but massacres any song he attmepts and never completes one! What a joke!
Re: FReal – Thank you!! I was just going to post the same thing. Is Perez THAT stupid?????
San Franciscans hate the term "Frisco"! Don't be a prick, Perez!
Yep Perez you suck… it's TIGHTY WHITIES!!!!!!
The law's the law. And, NYC should have arrested this loser and shut down his act long ago.
I met the naked cowboy a few years ago in New York, he's actually a really nice guy
Cool Kids never call it "Frisco"
Ever.
PLEASE DON'T CALL IT FRISCO…
No one in SF calls it Frisco. It's really obnoxious.
We are not completely tolerant to everything. The free-loving folk in SF are not natives. Those of us who are natives have a problem with the free-lovers.
The Naked Cowboy should stay in NY, we have enough Naked folk here during our festivals who truly are "naked".
bleh.
I go to the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in San Francisco and today I saw him outside of my classroom window, downtown, just walking around the parking garage behind my campus. I guess they didn't keep him for too long.
Bleh.
Please don't call it Frisco. We are not down with that term. Us natives are not as free-loving as those posers who wish they were natives because they are tolerant. Those so called tolerant bastards as so freaking intolerant to "other" opinions, they fill my hometown with crap like this. God forbid someone who was raised here with "right" values live their life freely in this "tolerant" town. all you out of towner wannabes should leave SF. We don't like any of you anyway, illegal or non illegal, we want our town back!
NATIVES are San Francisco…
What a hypocritical city! They can't control their bums and beggers all over the place but they are going to arrest a singing cowboy in his underpants?
This guy is gross. I wish he'd put some clothes on. Did you see Nellie in his undies? Now that's something to look at!!!