North Carolina Incident

And important thing to note was that in 1990, on a tour supporting Scumdogs of the Universe, Dave Brockie was arrested on charges of obscenity in Charlotte, North Carolina. 
During the show, everything was rather normal, as the band just played the show. But sometime during it, Michael Bishop (Beefcake the Mighty) noticed the doors at the front of the venue were opening, and something over there was happening, that didn’t seem to be normal. Then, as the show was still going on, Bishop says that officers came onto the stage, and the members tried to shew them away as they were trying to finish the show. After the show, as everyone went backstage, two officers were waiting for them. Bishop says that it was a stereotypical good cop bad cop situation. One cop was rather chill and joking with the band, and didn’t really see a problem with anything. Though, the other officer was disgusted by the band. More specifically, he was horrified by Dave Brockie’s prosthetic penile attachment, “The Cuttlefish of Cthulhu”, and was confiscated by police officers for “obscenity”. While revisiting the incident, the members said that the officer was so grossed out that he didn’t even touch the Cuttlefish, and picked it up with a stick and lifted it into the bucket. The band later said that the band probably wouldn’t have been in trouble at all, and Brockie probably would have never been arrested if he had taken his Cuttlefish off before the officers saw it backstage. The officers themselves didn’t fully see a problem with the stage show itself, but rather just the costumes. 
This incident became a staple in the bands history. The band even incorporated it into their lore. According to Oderous Urungus (Dave Brockie), the officers came to the show and told him he was trying to “simulate a human penis”. The officers then bribed and lured Oderous back to the police station by saying they wanted to do crack cocaine with him. And Oderous being a crack addict, took the offer. They went to the police station, and the next thing Oderous knew, he was unconscious and the police had amputated the Cuttlefish with a laser saw, and buried it in a nuclear waste sludge pile. Although, as he did explain this story in multiple interviews, the entirety of America Must Be Destroyed and Phallus in Wonderland does describe a different story, as there they claim the Morality Squad stole his Cuttlefish, and not the police.
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