August 11, 2004
Mike Wallace as he was being arrested: "I'm an 86 year-old man!"
60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace was arrested last night by New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission officers for disorderly conduct after allegedly "lunging" at one of them.
The 86-year-old "60 Minutes" mainstay was handcuffed and hauled into an Upper East Side station house at around 8:30 p.m. after picking up a takeout order from Luke's restaurant on Third Avenue near East 79th Street and finding his double-parked driver delayed by two Taxi and Limousine Commission officers, said Allan Fromberg, a TLC spokesman.Wallace claimed that this was the first time he had been in cuffs since the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.Wallace got in and sat in the car with the driver as the officers checked out the chauffeur's papers — until Wallace got out to see if he could speed up the process.
"He was observed to be overly assertive. He was disrespectful to the inspectors. He was asked to step away three times. He did not comply," Fromberg said.
"[Wallace] was seen to have seemingly lunged at one of the inspectors, and the other inspector feared for his partner's safety and at that point restrained Mr. Wallace."
"I'm an 86-year-old man," he chortled. He said he was only trying to find out what was going on as his meatloaf and mashed potatoes cooled inside the car.
"For whatever reason, this guy and his buddy were intent upon telling me that I was interfering with the execution of the law," Wallace told The Post.
Couldn't happen to a nicer moonbat...
He's certainly old enough to know better but wisdom does not necessarily come with age. What have we here? Arrogance and pride tripping him up and he's too full of himself to see it. Of course, he sees himself as the victim. Why he might have had to reheat those mashed potatoes and meatloaf.
Wallace claimed that this was the first time he had been in cuffs since the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
I thought that was John Chancellor.
Posted by: McGehee at August 11, 2004 09:05 AM