If you want to squat over a pissy toilet in a nondescript barbershop in the hood, it'll only run you $2
I know it’s a recession and eveybody’s trying to make a buck(or in this case, $2), but this is ridiculous. I could understand the folks on the street selling water bottles they bought in bulk at Costco & Target to the Caribbean Carnival masses last Saturday, but selling these same people the right to pee? That’s just a little bit tacky in my opinion. Then again, that barbershop looked slightly empty, so maybe they needed the extra business any way they could get it. I guess I’m not mad at ‘em for that!
Also, let me clarify that this photo was not seen on MY phone, but from my friend Rome’s camera. He’s the guy who comments here under the name “Mr. 6’5″ and talks a bunch of sh*t. He made the trip up from Atlanta this weekend, so I must thank him for noticing this piece of cardboard and blue masking tape greatness. I give credit where credit is due. Especially to people who weigh 100 pounds more than me who’d have a massive reach advantage in a fist fight!
I wasn’t even at DC Carnival long enough to witness the shooting a few blocks from my place, or the giant teenager fight now immortalized on World Star Hip Hop, but I saw enough early on to know that bad things were probably to come. Sadly, it started with MPD.
According to reports, the organizers of DC Carnival still owe the Metropolitan Police Department a ton of money from last year’s event. They allegedly struck a deal, but obviously bitterness remains, as a lot of the officers were going out of their way to be rude to people while pushing the event along Georgia Avenue. I witnessed cops on motorcycles riding right up behind people in the parade dancing while yelling at them to keep it moving, nearly running into young girls. I even saw one ass clown officer on a horse ride onto a crowded sidewalk and yell angrily as people tried their best to not get trampled or shat upon by the massive animal. Granted, the officers weren’t bringing guns to a snowball fight, but they were unnecessarily being dicks nonetheless.
The shift in the mood from festive to tense pretty much started thanks to the way the officers handled the early part of the parade. I can’t totally blame them for craziness that happened next though. There was also a cultural shift around 3 or 4 o’clock. The friendly people out to watch the parade & have fun began to go home, and they were replaced by, for lack of a better term…Niggas.
Not Black folk although most of them were Black; I’m talking a multitude of ignorant-ass, no home-training, act a fool whenever there’s a crowd or the weather gets warm ass Niggas. Maybe they all woke up at 2PM and took their time coming to Georgia Avenue, but the entire affair became a comedy of ashy-elbowed errors around the time I left to go work out. At one point, I saw a fat joker running up Sherman Avenue with a track baton for no reason. Nobody else was running. The only race going on was in his mind. I thought to myself “This man has is OBVIOUSLY high on something! I hope he’s winning his imaginary race.”
It would be terrible if all of these negative incidents stop DC Carnival from happening next year, but if it does, I understand. It bothers me that something people look forward to every year could come to an end over a money dispute and people not knowing how to act.
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*tips hat* good times this weekend sir…
too bad the n*gga’s couldn’t stay home.
True, good times indeed!
I was about to ask how long you stayed before they started shooting but, then I read ahead :) I usually go but for the past two years we–the girls and I couldn’t get it together to get downtown. It would be a shame though if this meant they wouldn’t have it anymore. I heard it’s been an institution for almost 20 years without any incident until now. Where else am I going to see the St. Martin flag where it shouldn’t be and the mud people. Crossroads is closed :(
I didn’t even know that Crossroads is closed. Man, the people NEED DC Carnival to continue!!!
Crossroads is back open! I was there Friday night. Great live reggae band.
NICE!!!
Im not mad at the barbershop. They probably got tired of letting folks use it for free then having to clean up after them.
Heck, i’d pay $2 to avoid using a port-a-potty.
Damn good point! Touche, my friend. Touche!
I’m glad I didn’t make it this year and LOL and SMH @ your breakdown.
It was fun early on…and then…It wasn’t. LOL