Posted on 10/08/2019 2:32:01 PM PDT by lowbridge
“30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin was hustled by a fake Statue of Liberty tour operator while out sightseeing with his wife, Hilaria, and their kids.
Baldwin said in an Instagram post that the family shelled out more than $40 per ticket for a tour of Liberty Island — but instead found themselves being escorted toward a bus bound for New Jersey.
“I kid you not. We paid. Then we read the tickets,” he raged in the post.
“NO ON [sic] EVER MENTIONED NEW F***ING JERSEY!!!”
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Bogus ticket sellers have hawked scam passes near Battery Park for years. The Post in 2015 exposed how scammers charged gullible tourists up to $200 for a ticket to the Staten Island Ferry — which, again, is free.
A reporter spotted hustlers — wearing blue, official-looking “SJQ Sightseeing” jackets — bilking tourists.
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Just a month earlier, a state assemblywoman was accosted by a pack of unruly fake ticket salesmen.
Yuh-Line Niou, who represents the Chinatown district, said the ticket-hockers were blocking the Battery Park exit of the Bowling Green 4/5 station when she politely asked them to move.
“I was like, ‘Can you guys not block the way?’ He’s like, ‘F–k you.’ He called me a ‘whore,’ he called me a ‘bitch,’ ” the lawmaker told The Post.
She said cops who witnessed the harassment ignored her pleas for help — claiming the mayor told them not to intervene.
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Not sure if it’s karma or no - but either way, I’m OK with the end result.
That would have been the perfect time for one of Alec’s Public Meltdowns. Somehow though, I doubt if he lost his temper all the way, because he had his wife and kids with him.
It's always hilarious when a loudmouth, two-bit con man like Baldwin get's hustled!
I’m surprised he figured it out. Maybe his wife explained.
Shudda used what’s in his wallet
It’s easy to con a con.
I think it was the police showing their disgust for the Mayor, who has told them to ignore so many offensive and criminal acts.
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