Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island's popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday. Frank was turned down by ticket clerks at the dock in Sayville because he didn't have the required Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID.
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A witness reports, "Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation." Frank made news last year when he was spotted looking uncomfortable around a bevy of topless, well-built men at the Pines Annual Ascension Beach Party. Frank's spokesperson confirmed to Page Six that his partner, James Ready, asked the ticket office for a regular ticket for himself and a senior ticket for Frank, "but was turned down because Frank didn't have a resident ID."
"Barney Frank throws hissy fit on ferry dock -- over his inability to qualify for a dollar discount."
8 Comments -
What a cheep screw!!
Dr.D III
July 27, 2010 at 9:41 PM
He must have thought it was a fairy dock.
July 27, 2010 at 9:47 PM
Ah, irony. A fairy riding on a ferry....
July 27, 2010 at 10:18 PM
An unfair fairy ferry fare?
drdave III
July 27, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Mike,
Yer really tryin' ta make me puke today, aintcha?
July 28, 2010 at 3:46 AM
Poor, poor, little fairy.
Bob
III
July 28, 2010 at 8:12 AM
"[H]e demanded a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island..."
This is evidently a typographical error. It should read "fairy" fare.
July 28, 2010 at 9:28 AM
Vas? He vas not haffing ze korrect paperrs? Vell, vell.
Karma is karma. This was a very, very small warning.
July 28, 2010 at 12:55 PM