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51 nitrous oxide tanks, 42 arrests, Abe Vigoda, prostitution (?!?) & more @ Phish's Halloween run in Atlantic City

Innocent Phish fans, cleverly disguised nitrous tank, or Brooklyn prostitutes? (via)
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Press of Atlantic City reports:

Atlantic City police arrested 42 people and confiscated more than $11,000 during last week’s Phish concerts at Boardwalk Hall.

The Atlantic City Police Department Special Investigations Section (Vice and Intelligence Unit) and TAC Team, with members of the Atlantic City Task Force and Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office Guns, Gangs and Narcotics Unit conducted several surveillance and undercover operations around Boardwalk Hall from Thursday through Saturday.

Drugs also were recovered. They include hashish, MDMA, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD in paper blotters and sugar cubes, prescription pills, bath salts, 51 nitrous oxide tanks and marijuana in several forms, including cookies and brownies.

Two of the arrests, both women from Brooklyn, were for prostitution charges…

Wait, what? I thought prostitutes from Brooklyn had better taste in music!

More interestingly, Hypervocal points out:

Every Phish Halloween show since 1994 has featured a musical costume. The band picks a classic album and plays it, in full, in the middle of its three-set show. This year the band opted for a new approach, “breaking from tradition” to play an album from the future: Phish’s own “Wingsuit.”

During one of these song debuts, the lyrically absurd “Wombat,” a man in a wombat suit hobbled out and danced on stage with four back-up dancers. The song mentioned Abe Vigoda, star of TV’s Fish and Sal Tessio from The Godfather, and afterward when Trey Anastasio bantered that Abe Vigoda himself happened to be in the suit, one might have thought the Tony-nominated redhead was merely kidding.

Sure enough, after a quick body double switch, the man in the wombat suit hobbled back on stage and revealed himself to be … ABE F*&KING VIGODA.

Check out Abe Vigoda, in videos from the show below…