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Oh Bondage, Up Yours!
Last weekend, I was at a daytime event at the Eagle (formerly The Gauntlet II). As the night wore on, the regulars started showing up - the leatherboys. Someone asked, "Why is there so much security in here?" I overheard one of these guys saying, "So I went in there to buy my Dr. Pepper, like I always do, because that's where I get my Dr. Pepper, but this time I'm wearing my SWAT uniform, you know, and the guy asks me, are you a policeman or something, and I said, no..."
So of course I had to go over and make friends with them.
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Then these guys just started spontaneously handcuffing their friend to the bars of the window. I asked them if I could take pictures and post them all over the internet. They were admiring the pics, and said, "Oh, they came out." Well, somebody probably just did.
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He just hung around like that all night, chatting as if everything was the same as usual. He was still handcuffed to the bars when I left.
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