We brought back the greatest spinning class fracas story ever told yesterday, the one with the guy getting thrown off his bike by a fellow rider for pumping himself up with affirmations like "You go girl" throughout the session, because awesomely, it made its way into an actual courtroom this week, where it will be decided whether or not it's a crime to assault people who audibly work out. Nothing is funnier than two middle aged men getting indignant in a spinning class, and this heretofore unheard detail, while seemingly minor, is really the piece de resistance of tale. According to testimony from Dr. Sherri Sandel, a lucky, lucky, lucky lady who was in the spin class, after Christopher Carter (the thrower) told Stuart Sugarman (the throwee) to shut up initially, Sugarman responded, "Make me."
Grunting in East Side Gym Class Leads to Hospital, and to Court [NYT]
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 10:37AM
Someone asking yesterday about a picture of the throwee? Today's excellent article in the Post has a head shot of Carter looking awesomely thuggish
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 10:44AM
...with my sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump left hand on a forty, puffin’ on a blunt, pumped my shotgun, niggas didn’t jump, lala la la lala la laaaa ...
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 10:49AM
In the movie "Jeremiah Johnson" the main mountain man character played by Robert Redford and another character chance upon some Native Americans. In so doing one of the Native Americans begins to shout at the two mountain men. Redford asks his partner why they are shouting. The partner replies that the Native Americans do that when they are afraid.
Living in the City has its many stressors and a major one is fear. It leads one to wonder if Sugarman was continually frightened just by being in the City and perhaps he countered his fears of the City with shouts where ever he was at the time....bathroom, trade room, inside a cab, gym, jerking off, etc.....
Sigmoid Freud
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 10:55AM
@10:44am
Early ninties rap, ahhhh so refreshing. Punks jump up to get beat down would've been more appropriate.
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 10:55AM
Favorite line in article " Mr. Sugarman, who sometimes goes by the nickname Shug "
Shug.
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:00AM
The guys at Minyanville did a pretty funny video about these clowns.
http://www.minyanville.com/mvtv/?videoid=30&offset=27&t=1
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:03AM
According to the Post, "Shug" worked out for 20 min after being injured, then requested an ambulance?
Posted by Anal_yst , May 29, 2008 11:06AM
"Shug" is lucky the real Shug doesn't come beat his ass, a pounding after which (assuming he was still even alive), would most definitely require an ambulance
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:07AM
If there was ever a clearer case of an airplane without a partner, this is certainly it.
Posted by diablo , May 29, 2008 11:09AM
I say send them both to jail and share a cell for a year.
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:11AM
Intrade should write contracts on the outcome of this case.
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:14AM
Did we all see Mike Lewis' hilarious article on Bloomberg today about the Russian and his 26 toilets? Note Bloomberg pussying-out with the disclaimers at the end of the article!
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:16AM
Come on, Dealbreaker: We need a poll on the Sugarman (and I think the "man" part of his name should be detached) and Carter outcome.
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:16AM
@ 10:55 AM. The meth and redman album isn't early 90's rap. Thanks for playing though.
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:18AM
who would give this douchebag money to run? (lewis, or suge, take your pick)
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:21AM
Is lewis not aware that the problem is not that Kogan wants bathrooms everywhere, but that he wants a big one with multiple stalls so that everyone at his parties can go at the same time without having to wander up to the 18th guest bedroom 100 yards down the hallway
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:24AM
Meth and Red lifted that lyric from Cypress Hill's "Hand on the Pump", from their album "Cypress Hill", which was released in ... 1991.
Posted by girl , May 29, 2008 11:25AM
The poor man has been robbed not only of his ability to don super tight shorts with padded bottoms and ride a stationary bike to the latest Britney CD, but more importantly his ability to GOLF 6 times a week. I think we can all agree this is a hardship we are lucky not to have encountered in our lifetimes.
A moment of silence.
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:28AM
oh, and here's a freebie, Def Squad weren't the first to record "Rapper's Delight".
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:32AM
@11:24
beat me to it, good lookin out
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:36AM
ha ha its sooo funny that the homo got a bitch slapping ...
for a male to shout "you go girl" means he gotta be a pillow biting chutney chuffer...
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:41AM
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05292008/news/regionalnews/grunt__center_112980.htm?page=2
[img]http://www.nypost.com/seven/05292008/photos/new05b.jpg[/img]
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:43AM
[/b]Sugarman insisted he said nothing worse than "You don't have to be such a baby."
"Then I hear him say, 'Did you call me an effin' baby?' Then he got off his bike and charged me like a football player would charge a training sled, and proceeded to lift my bike and I. The bike is about 150 pounds and I'm more than 200 pounds. He lifted the whole thing up and threw it and lifted it against the wall. [b]
"He was looking up at me," Sugarman remembered. "And he held me up over his head. He looked at me and very loudly said, 'F' you. And then he dropped me."
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 11:48AM
@ 11:24. I am sorry I don't speak spanish weed rap.
Posted by Anal_yst , May 29, 2008 12:08PM
@ 11:28, are you saying its not common knowledge it was Suge(r) hill gang?
Posted by mrpink , May 29, 2008 12:20PM
Bonfire Of The Vanities: 2007/8 Edition
-mrp
Posted by mrpink , May 29, 2008 12:23PM
Sugarman: The poor 'black' man who was so misunderstood
Carter: Sherman McCoy
Dr. Sherri Sandel: Some mistress
Too hilarious...
YOU GO GIRL!
-mrp
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 12:57PM
Who you tryin' to get crazy with ese? Don't you know I'm loco?
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 1:33PM
One of the questions we need answered is whether or not one or both of the spinners shave their legs for the "real biker look" at the spin class.
Posted by guest , May 29, 2008 1:34PM
haha a11:16 you are a giant tool, how embarassing to have your knowledge of rap music corrected by a bunch of guys on a finance message board.
Posted by Johnny , May 30, 2008 9:55AM
The rap talk is boring. Let's get back to the topic at hand: making fun of this raging tool, "Shug"... he's about to be made much richer by this lawsuit, so the least we can do is make as much fun of him as possible in a public forum.