The Buckster’s Scooter Stolen in Midtown Manhattan

BUCK: Seth Rogen, not to be confused with Joe, Seth Rogen is a marginally formerly entertaining comedian who got into a back-and-forth with Casey Neistat, who is a YouTuber. I don’t know Casey Neistat. Heard he’s a nice guy, for what that’s worth. Heard he’s a nice dude. His company was acquired by CNN some years ago for $25 million, so that sounds like fun. And then he left CNN quickly because CNN is full of lunatics. And Seth Rogen got into a back and forth with him online because Casey Neistat’s car, he’s Canadian, he’s my age, 39, and his car had been broken into and burglarized in Los Angeles. He said he got robbed and he compared LA to a “crime-riddled third-world blank hole.”

And Rogen replied: “Dude, I’ve lived here for over 20 years. You’re nuts. It’s called living in a big city.” He said: “You can be mad, but I guess I don’t personally view my car as an extension of myself. And I’ve never felt violated any of the 15 or so times my car was broken into.” Fifteen times! Now, maybe he was exaggerating.

But that seems, 15 times his car was broken into and he thinks that’s fine? Thinks that’s normal? This is going, though, to the mentality that the left now, because their ideas about crime are so stupid, because their whininess about social justice and we can’t have cops doing their job, is so absurd. And now they increasingly embrace an idea, what’s the big deal; it’s just your house. Let them steal some stuff. They need it more than you do. Yes, this is what they think. This is where the left goes. It’s just property. Property isn’t a big deal. Let them take it. They need it.

Wasn’t it AOC who a while back basically referred to some of these big thefts going on in stores as like a redistribution? A redistribution of wealth. Maybe they needed to buy food. Oh, yeah, that’s right. People go steal $15,000 handbags as a part of a thief mob because they’re starved. They pull up in, like, luxury vehicles and then steal $15,000 handbags because they’re starving. Sure, in America today, that’s really happening.

The left is in on these issues. And this just goes to show you, now Seth Rogen is not very smart, but he’s wealthy, influential, clearly kind of a nasty fellow if you see his Twitter. And he’s saying, yeah, so my car has been broken into 15 times. Big deal. Accept it, man. Accept a society where some people make excuses and break the law and it’s okay. And where the state, who holds you accountable, I mean, sure you want to break into someone’s home. You want to steal while they’re there, want to do a home invasion, a burglary, you want to steal their car. I mean, hell, if you listen to the prosecutors in Kenosha, against Kyle Rittenhouse, the mob wants to beat the crap out of you. You’ve got to take it. That’s the cost of being in America today, folks. That’s what the left wants you to believe. No accountability, no responsibility. Whatever criminals want to do to you because they probably have a good reason for it. It’s been really hard for them.

And if you’re wondering what does this feel like, over the weekend, my two brothers have birthdays pretty close to each other, so we were out celebrating. And now this is, I trust all of you. We’re friends here. I feel as if I’m talking at my own kitchen table. Yeah, there’s a few million of you, but it’s like I’m talking to my friends, because I am. So I’m just going to tell you this like a friend. I have a habit of driving around the city on an electric scooter. I know this is a surprise. You may be saying, Buck, what the heck is going on? We need to do a red-state intervention, bring you out, have you shoot some guns, eat a steak, do some man stuff.

But I’ve been rolling around on this electric scooter. It’s super fun. I know it’s dorky, and it’s not a green energy thing. It’s just a convenience and they’re fun. I go very fast — because otherwise in New York you just sit in traffic and I have to move around Midtown a lot. So I take this scooter. I had it for about six months. And I mean I’ve put a lot of miles on it. It’s not exactly street legal. But it’s very dorky.

I had a little, like a bike lock, a very standard thing, a bike lock for it. And I locked it up on Friday. I was at dinner with my brothers and my sister for about an hour and 15 minutes. It wasn’t a very long dinner. Walked outside. This is one of the most crowded streets in New York City. There’s an actual, I’m going to have to go — the hotel wouldn’t give me access to the footage. I’m going to have to go file a police report. Gosh. They have a video camera right over the spot. So, somebody, you think maybe the criminal would pay attention to this, went and broke off the lock, stole it right in front of the video camera, could care less, rolled off on my scooter. Made his getaway on the item that he stole from me. Bzzzbzzz. I remember I walked out there, and said, oh, of course, of course.

This is de Blasio’s New York right now. I haven’t gone yet, I’ll probably talk to the police about it, I don’t know, I’m 50/50 on it. Have to sit there. Might be interesting to tell all of you all about it, what it’s like to try to file, yes, they’re all nodding their heads. File that someone stole something from me. It’s worth about $300. It’s not an insignificant item. $300 scooter from me. There are some of them that cost 900 bucks or even more. But this was a cheap one. Entry level before I get up to the big stuff, you know what I mean? Get some nitrous on there. Put some flames on the side of my scooter. A little vrmvrm action, ladies and gentlemen. Make that scooter purr like a kitten, roar like a lion.

I’ll probably go and fill out the thing. But I know what’s going to happen, the cop’s going to look at me — we have video. Almost certainly. I went and checked and I asked. And they said, I explained this was outside on the street, right in front of a hotel. They have a camera right out there on the spot. We have a video of the whole thing. I’m willing to bet the guy probably didn’t even put a mask on. Or maybe, that thing about masks, we’re all wearing masks these days. But even if they have clear video, they’re going to be like, eh, do you know how many thefts occur in this city every day? Do you know how much stuff people are stealing? I can’t even go to the drugstore on my corner without getting, I can’t get shampoo without it being under lock and key. And I say, guys, this is crazy. They say, yeah, they steal it. They steal it. This is store clerks. I’m not mad at them, but it’s just so crazy.

Every place I want to go in the store to get it. This is in my own neighborhood. I live in Midtown Manhattan. I live in the most heavily trafficked part of all of New York City. I could have seen it from, well, we were a little far from the window. But otherwise I would have been able to even see what was going on. Someone just came, saw it, realized there was a lock that wasn’t that substantial and just decided to steal it. One hour.

I want to run an experiment and see how quickly, if you set up in de Blasio’s New York, bikes, bicycle get stolen here all the time. If you have a nice bicycle. And I wonder how quickly it would be stolen and how many times you could go through this experiment. And here’s why: Because whether you’re in New York or Chicago or San Francisco or Houston, or go down the list, Democrat-controlled cities, they have convinced the population that stealing is not that big a deal.

People shouldn’t be that severely punished for it. And if you have a problem with it, something’s wrong with you; where’s your desire for social justice? You say, can’t we all just be held accountable to the law? Can’t we all act as responsible people that don’t steal? Oh, the left, the left has a very different view of this, indeed. First time I’ve ever had, knock on wood, had anything stolen in that way in New York City.

So, it was kind of a reminder of what, it’s fine. It’s wintertime, wasn’t going to be on the scooter that much anyway. But what’s not fine is that I’m pretty sure the cops won’t care at all. By the way, what are they going to do? They are going to, I’m assuming it’s a guy, are they going to go find this guy, could be a woman. Unlikely. Anyway, life in the big city. They break into your car 15 times. They steal your scooter. They break into your house. They steal all your stuff. What’s the big deal? That’s what the libs say. Well, I think it’s a very big deal.