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city papers and a Mayor Bloomberg-inspired crackdown, is
Benmore. YouTube videos of the
34-year-old construction worker
baiting cops on his Spiderman
paint job Honda (since seized
and impounded) have attracted
hits in the high hundreds of thousands and he's trying to parlay
his fame into a rap career under
the moniker Benadon.
We eventually caught up with
him at a basement storehouse
for dirt bikes after a shooting at
our original meeting place turns
it into a crime scene. "I thought
you were trying to get me f*&king
arrested," he jokes.
Benmore claims he has every
reason to be paranoid. The po-
lice in New York, he says, are
harsher than the counterparts
down the I-95.
"I'm a target now. I have to be
careful. They act like I'm selling
drugs. If they found out about
this place [he sweeps his hand
around the basement], they'd
raid it and take everything and if
you were here they'd take your
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cameras so they'd be no record of it."
I put it to Benmore that a lot
of his law-enforcement issues
could be avoided if he wasn't
so keen on putting videos of
himself riding up on YouTube.
