Sample Sunday - Popped at the White Castle.

From Stand-Up Guy. A True Crime, New York City Gangster Story.

Joey picks me up the next afternoon and we make arrangements for Gino at four o’clock to meet us at the White Castle parking lot. A big White Castle out on Long Island, where these two guys would be in a red and white vehicle. I told them what kind of vehicle I had and we’d meet in the parking lot and they’d find us or we’d find them. When we get there I say to Joey roll around the parking lot once. We roll around it once, twice, and I see these people sitting around in cars with their newspapers up in their faces, like a lot of them. Cars parked way in the back of this White Castle parking lot. Everyone’s got newspapers? C’mon. And why is this helicopter flying around? I said to Joey, “I don’t like this. This is looking bad. I got a bad feeling the other night and I got a worse feeling today.” We didn’t have cell phones in them days so we had to go to a pay phone to call Nick.

“I don’t care what you do, you’re going to fucking do that! Do it!” And he hangs the phone up.

“Joey, he said do it”.

“Okay, Nick said to do it, well we’ll do it.”

So we see the red and white car come in. It looked like the Starsky and Hutch car, it really did. I said, “Joey, we’re gonna get popped. I got a feeling we’re going to get popped”.

“Are you such and such?”

“Yeah.”

“We’re such and such from the Hamptons. Gino sent us.”

All of a sudden helicopters are coming over, these people with the newspapers are all running out of their cars. Guns are drawn, sun-roof is opened and they’re standing on the roof with guns pointed at me. I mean I had all sorts of shit going on here. So I’m popped. They wanted to be real cool so they locked me up and they locked Joey up and they’re trying to find out who Nick was because Gino happened to talk to him on the phone a couple of times, on the pay phone in the dog grooming shop. They really couldn’t trace it, but they wanted to know who Nick was. When I was arrested they wanted to know names and people I knew.

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