Morons Climb Atop Empire State Building Antenna

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Hi, I'm retired NYPD detective Vic Ferrari and welcome to NYPD through the Looking Glass Podcast, where you get unique insight into the New York City Police Department. Before we get started, I encourage you to check out my Amazon author page where you'll find my series of behind-the-scenes NYPD books. They're $10 paperback or $2.99 ebook download, including my latest and greatest, NYPD behind the blue wall of silence. I apologize, guys, for getting this out so late. I've been under the weather all week. Um, so you know, I apologize for, you know, my lack of oomph and lateness. I know, you know, you guys have schedules and stuff and you enjoy listening to the show, and I try to get it out either Wednesday night or Thursday night, but I just have not been up to it. As you can kind of see by my appearance, I've been dragging. Hopefully, the next couple of days I turn the tide on that, whatever it got me. And if you're from New York or Florida, I see that it's 100 degrees out, Taylor Swift wedding, FIFA World Cup, 4th of July festivities, and poor NYPD cops on 12-hour mandatory tours. 28 to being denied. I don't think they give a shit about seniority. And it's weekends like this or weeks like this to tax the NYPD. And, you know, these guys are out there in those hot blue uniforms. So if you see them and you're out there in New York offer to buy them a coffee or a bottle of water, they're out there breaking their ass. And this piece of shit mayor really doesn't care about them. Madami tried to pull a fast one the other day, and he tried holding back the NYPD holiday pay that comes out this weekend. And thankfully, the union stepped up, especially the uh Mont My Owen, the DEA and the PBA, and they filed grievances, or at the very least, threatened to file grievances. So the commies backed off for now. But this is just gonna go on. He's gonna play games with the NYPD. He hates the police. And it's just sad that that New Yorkers voted this clown in. Um he he just released today a video where he's up there with a bunch of people holding American flags and he goes on to knock this country. So it just kind of shows you the mindset this guy's in. I really thought New Yorkers would have, after four years or eight years of de Blasio, they'd want to change, like when Giuliani came in, but unfortunately they're not ready yet. They need a little bit more punishment. Next week, if all goes well, um, a publicity agent reached out to me. Um, if you guys have ever seen the Netflix series uh How to Rob a Bank, it's about the Hollywood bandit. I guess whoever their publicity people are must watch the podcast. They reached out to me. I'm gonna be interviewing the FBI agent that caught the Hollywood, well, the Hollywood bandit got killed in a shootout, but stopped it, caught his accomplices, and one of the uh Hollywood Bandit's accomplices, he did like, I don't know, 20 years in jail. He's out together. I don't know, they're on some kind of publicity tour, but they reached out to me and I said, Yeah, I'd love I'd love to talk to the both of you. I've watched the episode once before. I intend on watching it this weekend, so I have a lot of questions. So again, hopefully next week, um, the Hollywood Bandit and watch it this weekend, How to Rob a Bank on Netflix. It's about this guy from Seattle. I think he was from Seattle. Yeah, he was from Seattle. And guy was a genius. Um, came up with all these disguises and prosthetics, and he built a tree house out in the woods. It's an amazing story. Unfortunately, he didn't put his genius to good and he wound up dead. So, a pair of kissing daredevils scaled the Empire State Building's 1,454-foot antenna in a cringe Instagram stunt before being arrested yesterday or Wednesday. Angela Nakulu, 33 years old and her boyfriend who goes by the name Ivan Beakers on social media, was identified as Ivan Kustinoff, he's better off with Beekers, 32 years old by sources, were carrying a banner that read, When the power of love beats the power of the world, knows peace, as they got engaged atop of the landmark around noon. As the couple reached the platform and the base of the spire, Birkas dropped down to one knee and proposed to Naku, who was wearing a black cat mask and a ring that she landed later flaunted on Instagram. The couple who live in East Orange, New Jersey, and probably should have stayed there, were taken into custody upon reaching the ground and later charged with felony burglary, reckless engagement, yada yada yada. I was watching a video. Um they got out. It doesn't look like they got any bail like everyone else walks out the door in New York with shit eating grins as they went back to New Jersey. You know, everybody thinks this is great, but these morons are gonna cost a couple of people who work at the Empire State building their jobs. So anybody working security or you think that they're not gonna re-examine the director of security's job. I'm sure these people went there multiple times and saw the weak spots and were able to get in there and then climb the top of it. I don't like heights, so that wouldn't be me. But when you think about what it cost the city, you had to have a flyover by aviation, so they were watching it. Then you had their rescue trucks, and they had to lug all that equipment into the elevator and go all the way up. It's hot as balls, and these two walk out with this these shit-eating grins. And it's a shame because everybody wants their 15 minutes of fame. And unfortunately, people are gonna get hurt and killed with these publicity stunts because so they can get viewers. But when I saw this story, it brought me back to my childhood. In 1977, there was a toy maker who lived in Manhattan, I think his name was George Willig. And guy, another genius, he figured out a way to build this hook and ladder system, and he was able to climb the Empire State um, no, I'm sorry, the World Trade Center. And at first they wanted to find him like hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I think A-Beam later came around and fined him a dollar ten or something, uh, uh like a penny for every floor or something. I I don't remember, but he got away with it, and I think he cut the shit after a while. There wasn't social media back then, so you know, it's just it's a sad time. And I remember, I remember asking my father, because I was like 11 years old, what he thought of it. My father goes, this guy needs a good old-fashioned kick in the hole. And my father thought a lot of people needed a kick in a hole, but whatever. Wild's video captured a bull rider being thrown by a feisty bovine and trampled in front of a stunned audience during a rodeo event in the Bronx. A 25-year-old man was injured when he was bucked off the wild animal during a sanctioned rodeo event on Brunner Avenue, the Baychester section of the Bronx. The daredevil's hat goes flying off his head as he's tossed to the ground limp, arms flailing like a ragdoll by the powerful bull. The bucking bovine kicks up its back's legs, bouncing the ride around until he's thrown off the back. The Bronx and a rodeo should never go together. You know what I mean? There's no, I don't get it. I feel bad. This guy probably got seriously hurt. It says that he went to the hospital in stable condition. A bull with that weight and that anger can do some serious damage. I remember not a bull, but I remember early in my career when I was in Bronx Task Force, it was, I think it was the 4th of July weekend. And I had a collar in the 4-1 into the early part of the midnight. And the midnight guys spotted these guys on horseback riding around the 4-1. There's like four or five guys with a bunch of horses, and they're riding around, they're riding around the 4-1. And they're like, what are they doing? And they were giving kids rides, and when the police would pull up, these guys would split up and take off in different directions. So there was a cop in the 4-1 by the name of Sully, and I hope he's alive and I hope he's doing real well. He's a great guy, used to make a lot of overtime. He either called the station house or went to the station house and called up a bunch of stables in the Bronx, and amazingly, someone was there. No, I know what he did. He called, so he had someone call the 4.5 and see if someone had stolen horses. And there's some stables over by Rodman's neck on the other, on the opposite side of um Co-op City in the Bronx, where you can, you know, go out on trails and stuff. I never did it, but you know, if you want to be a cowboy for a day, whatever floats your boat. So once they found out those horses were stolen, you had like, it was like a wolf pack of RPs, police cars, and they were picking these guys off at one at a time, and they were all drunk. And what it was is you had these guys, they rented the horses for uh uh four hours. They stole, they I don't know, I guess they were they lived in the 4-1 down in the South Bronx, and then they were giving kids on the ride for horseback, but they were all intox. They recovered all the horses and got all the cowboys, but kind of made me think of the 4th of July and all the other times I had to go down to Coney Island and watch the hot dog eating contest and the freak show and all that other shit. A Philadelphia mom went into a decrepit house of horrors ten years ago and never came out. The missing woman's daughter reveals as the FBI and cops found 55 gallon drums, chemicals, weapons, and a horrifying note referencing serial killer Ted Bundy. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say chances are this woman isn't around. Something happened to her in that house, Gloria McHale, whose last contact with her missing daughter Amy McHale was June 13, 2016 voicemail attempting to reassure her mom she was safe at the home of Raymond Charles R. C. Horsh in the city's only neighborhood. Horsh's 44-year-old son, Eugene, was arrested this June 19th after the FBI and local police searched the home and found a trove of chemicals, firearms, and drugs. Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Frank Fernone announced during a press conference Friday. R. C. Horsh and Amy McHale met in the 1990s, but she was in her 20s and he was in his 50s. And what could go wrong? And later got married and divorced, but stayed close after the relationship ended. The elder Horsh, who died in 2025 with a rap sheet that included drug manufacturing and forgery, was a smut peddler. His medium of choice was filming and photographing scantily clad women in sadomastic settings. Stoffer said her mother had grappled with drug addiction and mental health issues throughout her life and told the outlet she was exactly the kind of woman Horsh would have preyed upon. No kidding. Gloria McHale described Horsh as kind of a strange dude who considered himself an artist. Yeah, a bullshit artist. He liked to pick up girls and had drug problems, and he liked to take pictures of them shooting up heroin. The investigation of Eugene Horsh was sparked when a U.S. park ranger overheard an argument between him and his girlfriend, who was sitting in a parked car near Independence Hall, June 19th. A ranger intervened when he heard the woman say, You're gonna hurt me, at which point he notified other law enforcement agencies who came to the scene. Upon conducting a search, authorities found Eugene who was carrying a fake drug enforcement administration badge, a switchblade, and two guns with defaced serial numbers. His girlfriend was carrying a fake ID featuring a photo, but bearing the name of a different woman who'd been reported missing in February 2023 from the Kensington area. The girlfriend later told police Horsch had given her the ID to use because she had outstanding warrants, though she didn't know the missing woman, but believed that something bad may have happened to her. You think? Gloria McHale told CBS News Philadelphia that all police having contacted them about their investigation horse's home. They're holding out hope for more answers regarding Amy's disappearance a decade ago. Yeah, this poor woman, she was a junkie, and this guy preyed upon her, and she probably got on his nerves or outlived her usefulness, and you know, she got silence of the lambs. It's sad and it's sick that there's people out there, but we always beware of strangers bearing candy. This one really bothered me. The sicko accused of raping a 13-year-old girl inside a Bronx Park surrendered to authorities after he recognized himself on a wanted flyer. Bondio Hernandez Canto, three names, common spelling. Uh, 36 years old of Yonka showed up at the 5-0 precinct early Monday once he realized his image was circulating and copped to the disturbing June 23rd encounter with the 13, who he met on an MTA bus inside Van Courtland Park. He was charged with rape, sexual misconduct, endangering the welfare of a child, and sexual abuse. Hernandez Canto, who has no previous arrests, uh pleaded not guilty and was granted supervised release in court as requested uh by prosecutors. Prosecutors maintain that the scumbag raped the teen and touched her breasts without consent inside the green space at Broadway and West 262nd Street. That area is um so on one side it's on Broadway. On one side of Broadway, it's Van Cortland Park. It's heavily wooded. Across the street, you have six-story um condos and co-ops used to be a very nice part of the 5-0 precinct. You had some scumbags that lived up there, but they were kind of on their way out as the neighborhood went co-op and condo. There were these two Irish stink oaf brothers. They both talked with lifts, they were big. They were always terrorizing their mother and their sister. I mean, these guys were like 30-something-year-old men, and they lived like in a two-bedroom apartment with their mother and the sister. And the mother was always, they were petty thieves. And the mother was always calling the cops on them for one thing or another. So my partner and I, we were in anti-crime, but I think for the day they threw us in the bag in uniform. And we had to go up to the apartment on a on a complaint with the mother, but she didn't want to press charges. And, you know, we basically we kind of abused him. We told him, Listen, you better cut the shit and start at it flying straight, or your mother's gonna get you thrown out of the house. You two were a couple of eyes, and they kind of had their heads down and we didn't arrest them. And we left. So then the next day, I come down with the flu. So I'm out for a couple of days. And um, I called the precinct for something, and I got my partner on the phone who's still working. And he goes, Oh, I got a collar. And I said, Oh, what'd you get? And he goes, a carjack. And I says, Oh, that's great. He goes, You're never gonna guess who. And he tells me it's one of the two brothers. And I go, What happened? He goes, Well, he goes, I'm standing over by the 124 room, which is where reports come in. He says, the phone rings. He goes, and I try to help the PAA out. I picked up phone, I said, 5-0 precinct, you know. And um, I could I recognize the guy's voice. If you heard this guy's voice and his brother's voice, you'd never forget it. So the guy says, Um, was there a carjacking? Did someone did someone report a carjacking in your precinct? So that kind of took my partner back and he said, No, why? And he goes, Oh, okay. Listen, I want to make uh a civilian complaint on officers Ferrari and Ryman. So my partner says, Really? What happened? He goes, Well, they came in here and they were rude to us. And he goes, Yeah, you know what? They shouldn't have talked to you that way. You know what? Come into the precinct and I'll take the report. He goes, Okay. So my partner immediately starts going through the 61s. There's a carjacking. And what wound up happening is one of these jerk-off brothers took a gypsy cab close to 260 something in Broadway, got into a fight with the cab driver, punched him in the face, threw him out of the cab, and to teach him a lesson, took his cab, drove several blocks away. I think he dropped it off on like Marshall Avenue somewhere. It was either Marshall Avenue or Fields and Terrace, and then walked back to his apartment. So my partner's just kind of hanging around the 124 room with another guy in anti-crime. And this guy walks in and he says, I'm gonna make a complaint on you. He goes, That's fine. And then when he goes to put the handcuffs on him, the guy starts fighting. So it turns into like this big brawl in the 124 room, and they're finally able to get him under arrest. The cab driver comes in. Of course, he wants to press charges. They got his cab back. I think they fingerprinted it. It came back to the jerk, but he picked him out of a lineup. But it just goes to show you the stupidity. But that that was a nice part of the precinct. Up to that, up to that border on 263, 260 on Broadway. Then you go into Yonkers. It starts getting a little rough in Yonkers. That was kind of like the wrong side of the tracks of Yonkers, and sometimes their residents would spill in and commit crimes in our side of the border and would go back and forth. But I just kind of found it interesting. And hopefully, this guy that committed this rape gets thrown in jail and never sees the light of day. A suspended NYPD detective has been sentenced for pulling a gun on three teenagers during a road rage incident in Somers, which I think is in Westchester County. John O'Connell of Patterson received a one-year conditional discharge. Prosecutors say O'Connell pulled alongside a vehicle carrying three 16-year-olds last August and pointed his loaded service revolver at them. O'Connell was off duty at the time. He was found guilty of menacing and endangering the welfare of a child. A judge also ordered orders of protection for each of the three victims. O'Connell had been operating a 2024 Honda that had been driving behind the teens, and he had also been forced to break suddenly. He then pulled up alongside them, rolled down the passenger window, pointed his Glock at him, and yelled, I have a gun. According to court records, the defendant continued to drive in aggressive matter towards the teens before they were able to break off and call the police. So a conditional discharge means it's called an ACD. They didn't say what timeline on it. It's usually a year. So the judge gave a very favorable sentence in this, meaning in a year, the case will be expunged and the cop won't have a record. There's gotta be way more to this that they're not saying. I don't think this cop, I listen, I get it's wrong. He shouldn't have pulled a gun at pulled a gun on anybody. Something more to this happened with those teenagers, baited him in to do it. Who knows? Um, but for the judge to rule very favorably, there was probably a lot more to that story. I think I've told this story a hundred times. There was a guy in my police academy class. Went to the 4-6, got licked up at a cop's funeral on the way home, pulled a gun on a guy that got the plate, went up to his house. He lived up in Orange. You know, I think they collared him, lost his job. You know, it's it's drinking and driving and just stupidity and testosterone. So again, I'll have a better episode out next week. I want to thank everyone for tuning in, especially my listeners in Loveland, Ohio, Sacramento, California, Newburgh, New York, Montreal, Quebec, and Orlando, Florida. If you work in law enforcement or had an interesting criminal background, please drop me a note on Twister, Twitter, Instagram. If you're really feeling strong, hit the hype button on your mobile app. And if you enjoy the content, check out my Amazon author page. Just type in my name, Vic, Ferrari Like the Carl, where you can preview all my NYPD books for free. Thanks again, everyone. I'll see you next week.