So, last night I was working, yes, working, at the New French Bar, photographing a speed dating session for an article I’m writing. I was talking to a woman near the front plate glass window and she suddenly stopped in mid-sentence and stared out the window. Then she said, “There’s a guy out there with a mask carrying a gun.”
I look and see a guy standing across the street, in front of Mast General Store, wearing a silver metallic jumpsuit and a helmet-type mask covered in aluminum foil, pointing a large gun up the street. As my adrenaline starts pumping, I realize he has what looked like a microphone in one hand. And he was singing or rapping or saying something while doing this stylized dance that included pointing the gun, which I think was a large water gun, at people as they walked by.
Just as I was changing my lens to go take a photo of this nutcase, the cops pulled up. The idiot pointed the gun at the cop car. The cops backed up the street, and suddenly, there were cops everywhere, with big rifles, yelling at the guy. Needless to say, the cops were pissed at Raygun guy’s shenanigans. They carted him off pretty quickly.
