Mouthing off

He’s not a rapper, but gun-rights advocate and middle-aged rocker Ted Nugent jawed it up with members of the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade Sunday outside the Neiman Marcus store in San Francisco. The Nuge was in town for a show with KISS and encountered the anti-fur crowd the afternoon before the show. The argument ended up with one protester arrested for threatening to attempt to terrorize and a charge of battery. Fur abolishers claimed that Nugent spit on one of their group but the cops who were busy being photographed with the rocker claimed there was no mucus involved.

Larry Gabriel is a writer, musician and former Metro Times editor. Send comments to [email protected]

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Larry Gabriel

Larry Gabriel covers cannabis for Metro Times. He also writes the Detroit Watch in the monthly Michigan Cannabis Industries Report. Larry's chapter "Rebirth of Tribe" in the book Heaven Was Detroit, from jazz to hip-hop and beyond chronicles the involvement of Marcus Belgrave, Wendell Harrison, Harold McKinney,...
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