I’m afraid this guy is going to ruin it for sidewalk unicycling
Lawsuit nothing to laugh at as circus performer files $3 million suit over summons for unicycling
BY JOHN MARZULLI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, November 19th 2010, 4:00 AM
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Kyle Peterson, 26, shows off some of his tricks in Coney Island. Cops weren’t so appreciative when he rode his unicycle on a sidewalk.
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A circus performer slapped with a summons for riding his unicycle on a Brooklyn sidewalk is suing some cops for acting like a bunch of clowns.
Kyle Peterson, a trained acrobat who has performed in the Big Apple Circus, was pulled over at 3 a.m. on Dec. 4, 2007, on Classon Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant by NYPD officers in plainclothes, he claims in legal papers filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Peterson, 26, contends he was legally riding his unicycle on the sidewalk - and it appears the New York City administrative code backs him up.
The cops asked him to hand over identification, and he was detained “for approximately 30 minutes in the dead of winter while the summons was written,” the complaint says.