Petition guy: Hi, are you a registered Democrat?
Dude: No, sex offender.
–20th & 1st
Petition guy: Hi, are you a registered Democrat?
Dude: No, sex offender.
–20th & 1st
Lady: I come here every weekend. It’s my church.
–Manhattan Mall women’s bathroom
Overheard by: Dolly Lowenstein
Guy: She became a Republican to spite our father.
–Whole Foods, Columbus Circle
Woman: I really hate Bush. I can’t stand him. The world would be such a better place if he just died…But then there’s Cheney…
–6 train
Drunk guy: You wait right here, I’m going home to get my gun, I’ll be right back!
–23rd between 8th & 9th
Guy: This is the guy I got arrested with in San Antonio for pissing on the Alamo.
–LES party
Overheard by: Caz
Middle-aged woman: Whatever happened to that guy you were in love with?
Young woman: We weren’t in love, just seriously in like.
Middle-aged woman: So, what happened to him?
Young woman: I had him deported.
–64th & Broadway
Guy: Just because I got a felony doesn’t mean I’m going to jail.
–outside Kew Gardens Criminal Courthouse
Overheard by: Scott Bee
Man walking down the street with a wooden square around his neck says: I’m an innocent man! I’ve been framed, I’m tellin’ ya!
–Carmine & Bleecker
Black guy: Yo, do y’all got $6? Whoa, whoa, listen, I’m Black but I’m no criminal!
–Penn Station
Overheard by: Erica Gridelli
Mother: What do you want to be when you grow up?
Daughter: A cop.
Mother A cop? You don’t want to be no cop, what do you want to be a cop for?
Daughter: So I can carry a gun.
Mother: You don’t need to be a cop to have a gun. Your dad ain’t no cop and he has a gun.
–F train
Overheard by: Paul Swenson
Guy on cell: Can you imagine having sex with a two year old and a three year old at the same time?
–79th & 5th
Overheard by: Jackie
College chick: So, best case scenario she thinks you’re a lesbian. Worst case scenario, she thinks you’re a child molester.
–M16 bus
Chick: Oh yeah, ’cause we all know how I like to swap spit. With random people…like the cleaning ladies.
–FIT
Black guy: It really tore me up to have to beat that nigga with a chair.
–Times Square
Drunk: Fuck getting arrested! I don’t care! But my point is this…
–Washington Square Park
Overheard by: Todd Seavey
Guy: See, Francie? See how it’s all pink around the nail? That’s from jabbing my thumb into that guy.
–48th & 1st
Guy on bike: …and she said, “What are you going to do, shoot me?” and that was the last thing she ever said.
–Forest Hills
Old White lady: Oh no, I didn’t get any blood on me, I stayed away from the action. I was the one doing the shooting.
–Aaron Davis Hall, Convent Avenue
Guy on cell: You’re in Florida? You’re driving back right? Get me a nine!…I don’t give shit where you buy it from, get me a nine milimeter. For real, all those southern states you’re driving through, you can get one from somewhere!
–DeMarco’s Pizza, Houston Street
Guy #1: Why did the cops just pull that biker over?
Guy #2: I dunno, it’s what, 4AM? Maybe he got on his bike drunk or something…
Guy #1: He’s wearing his helmet and everything though.
Guy #2: Yeah, but that motorcycle is pretty fucking ugly. That orange shit on the fenders is a crime.
–Delancey & Ludlow
Overheard by: a jay
A hobo picked out two girls on line and started insulting them. When the police came to get him he started again.
Hobo: See this is what the White Man does! They’ve gotta protect these little Jewish girls from Long Island, don’t give a shit about proud Black men like me.
Girl: I’m Puerto Rican and from Brooklyn.
He attempts to high five her as the cops escort him away.
Hobo: Right on, sister!
–19th & Broadway
Man: Look, they’re hiring.
Woman: No, they wouldn’t hire me with my arrest record.
–Century 21, Cortlandt Street
Overheard by: Pickles
