This year we decided to watch the NYC Marathon on 4th Avenue between 90th & 91st Street in Brooklyn.  This spot is near the very beginning of the runners’ run along 4th Avenue and ii is used as a set up point for press, police and the general brouhaha. 

Several minutes prior to the lead male runners arriving along 4th Avenue Mayor Bloomberg’s motorcade zipped up and around 92nd Street, stopped and roughly a dozen and a half people ran out of four SUVs and towards a gas station.  As it turned out, everyone was there to assist Mayor Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly in jumping into this old convertible limousine that screamed, “Beware of the book suppository!” 

The limo had an old seal of NYC on it and we suppose it might have been used by Mayor LaGuardia or someone of the like.  Anyway, take a moment to look at this photo and find the guy on the left who is holding an orange hoodie — we’ll call him Rogue Runner. 

As the motorcade stopped and awaited the arrival of the lead male runners our Rogue Runner continued to undress and warm up to run the marathon as a rogue runner — basically running the NYC Marathon sans official number and the 2.5/3 miles of the beginning of the race.

While Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly waited near the closed down Shell gas station our Rogue Runner walked over to the green dumpster on the property of Dentz Auto Repair.  He tossed his clothes inside, hesitated back to the street a split second and then walked back to the far side of a green dumpster and held himself in a manner that sure as heck appeared to be that of one who was relieving himself of bodily fluid in a public manner.

He did this while starring right at the motorcade.  Like, for real, it looked as though he was taking a leak in full view of the Mayor and Police Commissioner.  If he so chose to, he could have turned and hit the motorcade with a stream.  They were THAT close to one another.  

Yet the Mayor, the Commissioner and all of the cops were looking straightforward or at the few people taking photos of the comical seen — two tiny, short men in a giant car (they probably had to sit on booster seats) — none of them noticed Rogue Runner doing anything. 

After a couple of more minutes of waiting, the Mayor’s motorcade zipped off, Rogue Runner waited for the three and a half hour pack of runners to arrive and off he was. 

And THAT is what they don’t show you on television!