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sws4420
12-20-2005, 04:00 PM
Banana Boy and Two Accomplices 'A-Peel' Sentence for Staging Phony Street Fight

HUDSON FALLS, N.Y. Dec 20, 2005 — Banana Boy and two accomplices who staged a phony street fight were allowed to withdraw guilty pleas Tuesday and will no longer have to perform 40 hours of community service.

Instead, local cable-access television superhero Banana Boy, aka Chris Phelps of Glens Falls, and cohorts Jonathan Phelps and Luke VanScoy will each be required to write a 1,000-word essay about the case and the legalities they encountered.

The three were arrested at gunpoint Dec. 8 on disorderly conduct charges after police in Hudson Falls mistook a television skit they were filming for a real fight. In the skit, VanScoy was attacking Phelps, dressed in a banana costume, with a fake plastic knife.

They pleaded guilty last Thursday but after an uproar over their sentence of 40 hours of community service were allowed to rescind their guilty pleas.

"They all like to write, so an essay won't be a big deal," Dick Phelps, father of Chris and Jonathan, told the Glens Falls Post-Star.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1425589
Bob
12-20-2005, 04:55 PM
I really want to read those essay's when they're done.
sws4420
12-20-2005, 08:29 PM
It's a stupid sentence. They were fucking kidding around when they were doing it and there was no complaintant. I'm not sure how charges can really stick to what they did.
trojanmiro
12-20-2005, 08:32 PM
what amazes me is how a cop felt threatened enough to draw his gun in a situation where a man dressed in a banana suit was getting beat up. he had to see the cameras there. if anyone should be in court over this it should be the cop. talk about your super troopers.
:rotflmao:
sws4420
12-20-2005, 08:34 PM
Did you see the video? I guess the cameraman caught the whole thing on tape while they were taping the scene. I haven't seen it yet, but I'd like to.
trojanmiro
12-20-2005, 08:36 PM
id love to see the tape of this. what i imagine is an old cop with the attitude to exort power in a selfish manor. just trying to teach the so called "punks" a lesson. then again, what real crime is in glensfalls. its too cold for negros.